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Old 08-23-2011, 03:47 PM
 
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Being on an upper floor of a skyscraper was, um, interesting.

The swaying was disconcerting, but I think the cracking noises were worse.
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Old 08-23-2011, 04:05 PM
 
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I am on the 12th floor of the BNY Mellon Client Service Center. SCARY!
Very scary!!! I work on the 31st floor of an office building. Other than a few broken windows though, no injuries. Thank goodness for that.
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Old 08-23-2011, 04:18 PM
 
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Very scary!!! I work on the 31st floor of an office building. Other than a few broken windows though, no injuries. Thank goodness for that.
Wow. Must have been worse for the pedestrians below.

Apparently, big east coast quakes are rare (in human timelines) as the last big quake was in 1897 according to the BBC citing the USGS. This quake shook DC for 30 seconds and managed to damage part to the Washington Cathedral. In this picture, it was the tops of the spires.



Those things are made for vertical not horizontal support.
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Old 08-23-2011, 04:51 PM
 
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or worse yet Tom Cruise...
Funny!
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Old 08-23-2011, 05:19 PM
 
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Graphic photo of the aftermath of todays east coast earthquake that reached 5.9
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Earthquake?-ffff.jpg  
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Old 08-23-2011, 05:29 PM
 
Location: Kittanning
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....it was from all those promiscuous people who got Pittsburgh the #3 slot. They were trying for slot #1....
I sleep during the day, because I work night shift. I woke up and my bed was shaking. Since I live in a row-house, my first thought was that maybe my neighbors were having sex.
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Old 08-23-2011, 06:30 PM
 
Location: About 10 miles north of Pittsburgh International
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I was at work, and running an excavator. Everything felt perfectly normal to me. If anybody in the house under construction felt it, they probably thought I was to blame...
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Old 08-23-2011, 06:51 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh (via Chicago, via Pittsburgh)
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Graphic photo of the aftermath of todays east coast earthquake that reached 5.9
sums it up
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Old 08-23-2011, 07:34 PM
 
Location: Hempfield Twp
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Being on an upper floor of a skyscraper was, um, interesting.

The swaying was disconcerting, but I think the cracking noises were worse.
Yeah, my bldg is only two stories but all the steel roof joists were making lots of noises.

If you were in a mainly steel supported bldg., all those cracking noises could have been from the bolts/rivets moving in their slots. Over time, they settle into their place naturally but when the bldg. gets shifted laterally, they readjust and you get those noises....

Also could have been the glazing moving around too. I am sure it was a little freaky. How high up were you?
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Old 08-23-2011, 09:01 PM
 
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I know that the quake was not very large and that we were far from the epicenter; however, would such a tremor as the one we felt today have any impact on abandoned mines? I am guessing that they can stand up to more than that, as I imagine that blasting, etc. during the mine's operation would have been just as jarring.
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