Yep, felt it.

I had gone out for my walk (did 2.25 miles today, short one, yesterday was a 4 miler), and had finished taking my shower and was laying in bed watching some stuff on netflix. I had just finished a phone call with a friend, and wondered how an animal had gotten into my room and was messing around under my bed ... then the tubs of books started rocking around and I was worried that either they were going to fall on me, or that something structually really bad had happened above me in the highrise I live in, like a light plane or helicopter flew into it, or a runaway truck smacked into the wall (I'm on the very end of the building and most likely site for a runaway truck to hit, naturally).

When plaster didn't fall off the ceiling, my first thought was "Earthquake."

I grabbed my phone and hit the USGS site and saw the report for the epicenter in Virginia for a 5.8. One of my friends lives about 10 miles from me, said her macaw went nuts and panicked, but her rabbits (four of them) just kept on munching hay like nothing was going on. She didn't mention the guinea pigs.

We get one or two of these a year in the Philadelphia area, most of them I've slept through, but this was clearly the strongest.

It was quite cool to be able to enter a witness report on USGS, though.

I felt it down here in Raleigh. I was outside sitting in the courtyard on my lunch break. I figured it was just the fountain that was close by. I thought something was going on with the plumbing. Then, some of the companies cleared out of some of the surrounding buildings, but not for too long. I was still outside when they all went back in..

Amen to that.

Didn't feel it, but in retrospect, a dog was howling, I thought I heard thunder, and a car alarm went of. December 21, 2112, here we come. ;)

In hindsight, I'm really pretty damn pleased with how our house fared in the earthquake. Our house is unreinforced masonry construction. The absolute worst type of building to be in when there is an earthquake. This earthquake was the biggest one in this area in something like 150 years. I know you can't predict quakes, but there probably won't be another one this size in this area in my lifetime.

I've been slightly worried about our house in an earthquake ever since we bought the place, and we survived this one with flying colors. A couple hairline cracks in the interior plaster walls got a little more defined, and a couple hanging pictures were a little askew, but that's it. Oh, and one of the (many) squeaky floorboards got a little squeakier.

I was sure that a newly acquired family heirloom antique clock on the top shelf of one of our bookcases would be laying on the floor in pieces when we got home, but it hadn't budged.

I don't understand it. Maybe we are on a pocket of clay that dampens the vibrations or something. Who knows? But this POS house made it through the worst quake since it was built without any problems. Sweet.

They are not sure about aftershocks, is there a better place for the clock?

We felt it in my office. It was a very weird feeling. I knew my office chair was rocking, but I could also sense that the building was moving. Figured pretty much immediately that it was an earthquake. At least 3 or 4 of us simultaneously said "what the f*ck was THAT?"

Yeah, as soon as I came in the door, I took it down, and laid it on its back on the coffee table. It would have to be a very serious quake to hurt it there, and we'd have bigger problems then.

clay is dense so I think it would transmit vibrations, especially if wet. Not sure about sand and gravel.

Or Rock and Roll.

God, I hate that song. My roommate freshman year loved it. Played it all the time.

The animals at the National Zoo respond.

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publicatio...earthquake.cfm

sample:

Any kind of sediment is bad; the waves will be bigger and the material will be more likely to break up or liquify. You want your foundations directly attached to solid bedrock.

Oh and


Said the bishop to the actress.

We felt it here in Raleigh - thought perhaps it was a helicopter flying overhead or our AC being off kilter. The dogs slept through it.

If you felt it, post it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0...ors_picks=true

I felt badly about putting it up. I didn't even listen to it when I got the link. IMO it is an indefensible song, a travesty. All the musicians involved in that song should get the musical industry's version of the Pete Rose treatment; BANNED FOR LIFE and give back any awards, no rock HOF either.

That song was and still is brutally crappy.

mea culpa...