Earthquake in Richmond, VA

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[sonsofliberty2000]

Noticed no one reported this. Seems like an odd place.

Recent Earthquake Activity in the USA

Magnitude 2.2 - VIRGINIA
2004 December 3 01:27:12 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

A micro earthquake occurred at 01:27:12 (UTC) on Friday, December 3, 2004. The magnitude 2.2 event has been located in VIRGINIA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)

Magnitude	2.2
Date-Time		Friday, December 3, 2004 at 01:27:12 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 8:27:12 PM = local time at epicenter
	Location	37.694°N, 77.879°W
Depth	5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program
Region	VIRGINIA
Distances	22 km (14 miles) W (279°) from Short Pump, VA 24 km (15 miles) W (269°) from Wyndham, VA 26 km (16 miles) ESE (105°) from Columbia, VA 41 km (25 miles) WNW (295°) from Richmond, VA 155 km (96 miles) SSW (209°) from Washington, DC
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 39.6 km (24.6 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters	Nst= 7, Nph= 7, Dmin=72.1 km, Rmss=1.44 sec, Gp=220°, M-type="Nuttli" surface wave magnitude (MLg), Version=6
Source		USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	usrpaf
	Felt Reports	Felt in Goochland, Hanover and Louisa Counties.

[bd476]

Ping.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I live in Louisa County and slept right through it - darn!

[bd476]

Squantos, did you get early warning of this earthquake on the other side of the country? That dizzy hypnotic thing either set this 2.2 quake off, or was a predictor. Course it could have been that happy lil puppy.

[Ptaz]

Earthquake in Richmond. Rats....I slept right through it.

[Rebelbase]

"This one in Va could be a preview of coming attractions."

2's and 3's are not uncommon on the east coast and pass unnoticed by everyone who isn't hooked up to a siesmigraph.

[SuziQ]

Magnitutde 2.2? Shoot, we get that when the UPS truck rumbles up our street! ;o)

[Strategerist]

The Central Virginia Seismic Zone is not near, and has nothing to do with, the New Madrid Seismic Zone.

[patton]

In other news, my dog ripped one, and the hausfrau cleaned out the fridge. "No way that puppy made that ... smell."

[SubMareener]

Actually, Virginia is going to end up higher when the earth changes come.

[Issaquahking]

Hey all you earth quake buffs, might want to do some research into plate-techtonics for the future. The Mississippi River, just like the Nile Riverin Africa, is possibly another plate in the making.

Don't let the greenies ever hear anything about this, look what happened about a joke about the sun heating the planet in the future. Now they have everything in the world shut down for "global warming". Should have everything in the world going full bore to take advantage of this "warm" time in history.

[Semi Civil Servant]

2.2? That's a truck driving by!

More like dropping a grape on the carpet.

[Doohickey]

I'm in Innsbrook right now and I didn't feel a thing. I did feel the one we had earier in the year.

[Oreo Kookey]

I guess you didn't bother to look at the first site I listed. Seems those dummies disagree with you.

[BurbankKarl]

I was in Memphis in 1991 or so and felt a pretty good earthquake....being from CA I knew exactly what it was.

[WestCoastGal]

Yep 2.2 is sort of a hiccup for the big faults in California.

Happy to report that I don't have to worry about them anymore!!

[SubMareener]

The World in 2012.

For a more detailed view click on the continents.

[JURB]

Didn't feel a thing in Chesterfield County.

[Issaquahking]

Agree with map ....in about 12 million years. Plates will continue to move aound as the world grows older...

Just imagine taking a SSBN up the Mississippi underwater the whole way up!

[freedumb2003]

A 2.2???

Here in Los Angeles, that's just a car going by.

[SubMareener]

These things happen faster than you would think. It appears from recent research that the earth's inner core is a fast breeder fission reactor. It runs mostly on U235, but breeds Pu239 from U238. Periodically the reaction will shift to primarily Pu239 which is much more energetic. So things start moving about much more rapidly than we have experienced.