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05-06-2008, 05:57 PM
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Anyone feel the earthquake today?
Around 1:30 there was a 1.8 earthquake orignating in Annandale but I felt it at my house - there was a big boom, shaking and a rumble.
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05-06-2008, 06:44 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fairfax Mom
Around 1:30 there was a 1.8 earthquake orignating in Annandale but I felt it at my house - there was a big boom, shaking and a rumble.
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I was working right outside Ft. Belvoir didnt feel a thing same thing for my mom at the Hoffman Building. |
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05-06-2008, 06:52 PM
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I'm not sure you can actually feel 1.8 magnitude earthquake.
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05-06-2008, 07:29 PM
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Some people are really sensitive to small earthquakes. Living in CA I couldn't feel any of the tiny ones but my friend felt most of them.
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05-06-2008, 08:55 PM
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Thats funny - my husband heard it at his office in Springfield - his entire office building shook and 10 other people I know in my Fairfax neghborhood heard/felt it.
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05-06-2008, 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by EuroExpat
Some people are really sensitive to small earthquakes. Living in CA I couldn't feel any of the tiny ones but my friend felt most of them.
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LOL, me too. Unless it's more than 3.8 or so I don't notice 'em. Where did you live in LA? I lived in Redondo Beach for years. |
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05-06-2008, 09:27 PM
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They said it was felt in DC also (I happened to be there today) - I know exactly where I was also at that time: stockroom of Macy's Metro Center, 4th floor. Felt nothing, if I'd heard anything, no recall, would have assumed a truck.
I was on a business trip to San Diego years ago and felt the Joshua Tree one and the aftershocks, don't like it (lol) - but nothing here.
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05-07-2008, 05:55 AM
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I felt it in Falls Church... everyone in my building did. You definitely didn't have to be "sensitive" to it... it was VERY obvious and loud.
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05-07-2008, 06:53 AM
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05-07-2008, 07:53 AM
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I can't think of anything clever to say here
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Originally Posted by musincy
I felt it in Falls Church... everyone in my building did. You definitely didn't have to be "sensitive" to it... it was VERY obvious and loud.
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I wonder why that would be? Something to do with the clay soil perhaps? I'm not doubting that people felt it, I'm just surprised because 1.8 is exceptionally weak. A truck going by your building would do more than that. And why would it be loud? Trucks are noisy, 1.8 earthquakes aren't. What would have caused the noise?
Maybe the earthquake was caused by people running to the polls in Indiana...
Last edited by normie; 05-07-2008 at 08:05 AM..
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