Posted on 07/16/2010 6:03:47 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
WASHINGTON - A 3.6 magnitude earthquake woke the Washington metro region Friday, rattling homes and startling people.
The U.S. Geological Survey says it happened at exactly 5:04:49 a.m. about 3 miles under the earth's surface.
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"It was centered in the Germantown-Gaithersburg area," Randy Baldwin, a physicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Information Center
(Excerpt) Read more at wtop.com ...
Can you imagine the response that is coming to the quake in DC in November? Tsunami warning in forcast for Washington DC election night.
Maybe a good earthquake that swallows up DC would be the best thing for this nation.
You’d think we might lose a few good people in that, but, more and more it seems like very few.
WooHoo! Broke the record of 2.7!
I didn’t even wake up.
If only a hole would open up directly under the Oval Office...
Could it wait till I'm back in Virginia, please?
It was . . . Wait for it . . . “unprecedented”
*rimshot*
That might help.
What is needed is a radical change of the political center-of-gravity of the U.S. away from DC. There is no other solution to the fatal flat spin we are in.
I don’t know if that was “perfectly clear” enough.
The overuse of that word is causing some nausia. It also shows how handicapped the "Press" really is.
It was also “unexpected”.
Dear God,
Sooo close but a little too high and to the west.
Sincerely,
An American Patriot
Not an earthquake. It was Michelle trying to sneak back into Washington because she forgot her boob belts and green shoes. Tip toeing through Maryland.
Let’s see if I can be really kind — That is a whole lot of hysteria for a 3.6. I know, I know — it is sedimentary back there and the waves travel far. LA is a sedimentary basin also. Just having a small chuckle here in LA.
Let’s see if I can be really kind — That is a whole lot of hysteria for a 3.6. I know, I know — it is sedimentary back there and the waves travel far. LA is a sedimentary basin also. Just having a small chuckle here in LA.
Dear Heavenly Father, not to sound ungrateful or anything, but I had asked you for a Magnitude 11.....
Thanks for that one. You made my day.
hee hee hee!
It did wake me up. I thought “Wow! We don’t get many of those around here.” I then fell back asleep. So to the fine city of Los Angeles: no, we didn’t panic. But it was unusual.
I mean, if you all got snow out there, you wouldn’t panic, but wouldn’t you open the windows to look?
We didn’t feel it in Rockville, but it woke up my daughter an son in law in Leesburg, VA. But luckily, not the babies.
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