EARTHQUAKE JUST HIT DC AREA, MY HOUSE SHOOK LIKE xxx [Mag 5.9 in VA]

self ^ | 8/23/2011 | STOCKPIRATE

[Palladin]

Yeah...but he was conveniently out of town.

Maybe the hurricane will get him up in MV.

[the OlLine Rebel]

My son’s daycare lady said ALL her phone service was out - land and cell until I called 45 min later. Weird! I’m 10 min from her and my phone was fine! I called my parents within 5 min.

[Enchante]

YIKES, not good, hope the injury is not too serious

[McGruff]

Is she a lib? Ask her if it was on Obama’s Fault.

[DYngbld]

Just got home. We live about 10miles ground zero on this one. No structural damage, but quite a few things on the floor. broken flower pots, pictures on the floor, etc.. nothing serious. Praise God. Standing by for after shocks.

[Enchante]

It’s definitely the fault of the Tea Party, shaking things up too much for complacent bureaucrats to be happy....

[stephenjohnbanker]

: )

[DYngbld]

Just felt an aftershock. little rumbling.

[TSgt]

DC Earthquake Devastation

[Maven]

That was the first big earthquake I lived through. But I think it was at 6:01 am, and wasn’t it in 1971 ? not 72 ? It was centered in Sylmar, and destroyed the Olive View Hospital if I recall correctly. There were some deaths. We had a 2-story house, and you could really feel those aftershocks up there. I slept in my parent’s bedroom for a few weeks, I remember.

You're correct. It was in February 9, 1971 at about 6:01 a.m. I was 11 years old, and it was my first major quake. I lived in North Hollywood at the time, and they closed the local school for the week (it's was the Lincoln's birthday holiday anyway).

The brand new Olive View Hospital did what it was supposed to do (wings separated and gently dropped), but was completely destroyed as a result. Most of the 65 deaths occurred at the Veterans Administration Hospital in San Fernando, as the building was made of unreinforced masonry. Two freeway overpasses collapsed.

I remember that they evacuated just about everyone who lived between the Van Norman Dam to the north and the Sepulveda Dam Basin in the south. The Van Norman Dam had suffered significant damage.

I spent 4 weeks in the rebuilt Olive View Hospital this past January, and I sort of enjoyed freaking out the nursing staff with stories of how it collapsed 40 years before! Hey, I was bored.

[SaraJohnson]

He’s sending you to move the damn carts so I can git out! ;)

[jjsheridan5]

Just felt an aftershock. little rumbling.

Where?

[SaraJohnson]

Water, gas and oil pipes don’t like the earth moving.

[Fawn]

WOW...felt from Toronto to Atlanta!!

[Strategerist]

Yeah, I just drove home across DC to check on my reef aquarium; no problems. A door on the canopy was knocked open but none of the residents jumped out the tank.

First earthquake I ever felt, which is odd considering how much I’ve read about them.

I trust that in the last 900 posts the apocalptikooks haven’t been trying to exploit the quake through astounding scientific ignorance?

[CynicalBear]

>>felt tremors in NC. NO BS<<

We did to just north of Aiken.

[SaraJohnson]

A bookstore collapsed in Culpeper and there was one injury.

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Dang, knocked out the last customer standing! Now the economy is a gonner!

[TheConservativeParty]

But Obummer wanted to be gone.
It was all part of the plan....
and is also why he’s been spotted with his safety helmet on, looking like Urkel on his Pee Wee Herman bike.

(Adjusting Tinfoil Hat, and ducking to avoid thrown FReeper fruit)

[Palladin]

“I trust that in the last 900 posts the apocalptikooks haven’t been trying to exploit the quake through astounding scientific ignorance.”

Wait for it. They’ll be all over it tomorrow.