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1. Jiggers
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   Not here but...I just read article the quake was located in Virginia, was only a mile deep and felt as far inland as Ohio.

   article,
   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44245009/ns/us_news-life/t/congress-pentagon-other-dc-areas-evacuate-after-quake/?GT1=43001

   Posted 9 months ago #         

2. Kimberley
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   I have some friends in MI who felt it, reports came in from PA, NY, NC and SC too.

   http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/

   Posted 9 months ago #         

3. 365Stairs
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   Co-workers in Richmond...said it was a good rumble..."Good excuse for another smoke break" is what one said..

   Love the CNN report regarding NYSE traders...yelling "...Keep Trading!"...

   The almighty $1...shys away from nothing mama earth throws at it...

   Posted 9 months ago #         

4. Kimberley
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   Apparently some of the buildings in downtown Richmond (Cary Street perhaps) had some damage.

   Posted 9 months ago #         

5. JanS
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   yes, friend near Boston felt it, too. Amazing how different the earthquakes are back there as opposed to here. It was a 5.9...big enough...but...Nisqually was 6.8 and it wasn't felt all over the West Coast. Sure did shake people up back there - lol...

   Posted 9 months ago #         

6. JoB
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   old mountains
   less room for slippage

   Posted 9 months ago #         

7. Jiggers
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   The Nisqually quake was over thirty miles deep which why it wasn't widely felt. Imagine if it was ten miles shallower.

   Posted 9 months ago #         

8. Que
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   Also, the bedrock is harder and less fractured there, so the wave travels much farther. Here, it doesn't take long before the motion of an earthquake is broken up by another fault line, as well as the bedrock being softer and less prone to transmit the motion well.

   Posted 9 months ago #         

9. JanS
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   also, as explained on the TeeVee today...we have numerous plates here..back there there is one big plate, so it was felt more extensively...

   Posted 9 months ago #         

10. Jiggers
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    We have two major tectonic plates that run down the West Coast. I'm sure they are named after some sceintist who discovered them.

    Posted 9 months ago #         

11. miws
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    IIRC, one of the plates is named "Juan de Fuca"

    Mike

    Posted 9 months ago #         

12. JanS
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    VA QUAKE BREAKING NEWS!!! The USGS has determined that the epicenter of the VA earthquake was in a graveyard just outside of DC. The cause appears to be all of our Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves.

    ;->

    Posted 9 months ago #         

13. hammerhead
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    well i think we should bore a tunnel and put the Washington Monument in there because it might fall down and kill people.

    (Jan good one)

    Posted 9 months ago #         

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