Sure does. And it might have been real exciting watching those planes swinging on those chains. Longer the chain the greater the pendulum effect. 
Posted on 08/23/2011 10:55:19 AM PDT by stockpirate
DAMN
Sure does. And it might have been real exciting watching those planes swinging on those chains. Longer the chain the greater the pendulum effect.
The problem is the east coast is not built for any real Quake ... remember the old brick building in uptown Whittier after Whittier Narrows?
The federal government has a PLAN to fix it....leave the Washington Monument alone, just tunnel under and very slightly TILT all the rest of DC..
My friend from college lives in Wilson....Her husband’s family used to own a frame shop (can’t remember the name....)
Actually, Jim Robinson FINALLY fixed the FR clock...
Sadly most of the damage in the West would be to liquor supplies.
Where?
Fluvana County
Thanks for the pic...one of my favorite places in DC..The Spirit of St. Louis, and the Mercury capsule...it just amazes me.....I’ve yet to visit the new facility....heard it’s awesome..
I was being sarcastic, of course; the apocalyptikookism/punishment from a deity stuff actually seems not quite as bad as I expected, though. Though I usually expect the worst.
Haven't read many posts, just skimming sort of random. Yours caught my eye. I AGREE -- a 5.9 is a decent quake, maybe noth enough to cause a whole lotta concern among native Californians, but SURE AS HELL enough to put the fear of God in anyone who rides it! I've been in a lot of quakes, including Northridge. I totally respect and understand how anyone with any sense, especially someone who's never felt a quake before, would be "rattled" (no pun intended!!) by a 5.9.
I just want you to know that not ALL of us West Coasters are being smug. This one is feeling very sympathetic to folks who've just experienced that weird, humbling sensation that happens when God all the sudden pulls the rug out from under you house or office!
They have reason to be stoic.
Did you see the people on the bridge when the tsunami was coming in? There were screams and crying, they acted like normal people would when they see their homes, businesses and probably people being being harmed by the tsunami. Gotta admit, I thought they'd be more stoic but no, trauma of that great of a dimension brought a normal human response. I could not imagine what they were going through.
“a rare Appalachian Fault”
Interesting. The Appalachians did have to come from somewhere. The Blue Ridge, too.
I remember being on Ft. Lewis and unable to distinguish between the sounds of night div arty (when I was in bed) and earthquakes. Always had to straighten the pix on the walls.
Some of the two of them were memorable. There were always sounds as well as the ‘shake, rattle and roll.’
subduction leads to orogeny.
Because there are fewer faults in the Eastern half of the country, for the same size earthquake the energy travels MUCH farther than in California; it’s like hitting a bar of steel at one end and feeling the vibration at the other end, instead of hitting a box of gravel at one end and feeling nothing at the other end.
So that drives a lot of the Californian smugness; they’re not aware that people are feeling the same shaking they do from the same size earthquake, but in some places upwards of ten times further away.
“Crap Irene may now be cat four at landfall.”
I think that we may board up, take the pets, papers and whatever I have in the bugout bag and head inland.
My most precious material possession is the flashdrive with my family photos. That goes with us.
Meh. Whatever happens, happens
Hey! Any earthquake tremors out by you?
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