Working in a skyscraper in Newark and having never felt an earthquake before I assumed one of two things:

1) NYC under attack
2) End times

Not quite that eventful.

8/23/2011 3:29:27 PM

8/23/2011 3:30:24 PM

^^^Where do you work?

[Edited on August 23, 2011 at 3:31 PM. Reason : need more ^s]

8/23/2011 3:31:11 PM

Here at work I didn't feel a thing, and I've felt more minor quakes in the past. There are over 50 people working in my office and only one person noticed it. So weird. Wonder if it has to do with our office building just being a single story (I'm located about 2 miles from the airport FWIW).

I wanted to feel the shaking

8/23/2011 3:31:39 PM

in on page 5

8/23/2011 3:32:07 PM

^^^ in Sanford

people said they felt the earthquake there. monitors and shit were shaking. but i didn't feel anything.


[Edited on August 23, 2011 at 3:39 PM. Reason : V already there. ]

8/23/2011 3:33:57 PM

so youre gonna be home soon?!

8/23/2011 3:35:43 PM

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"That's like saying that the real problem with lakes on the east coast is that they don't have Hippos."

?

i guess i should have been clear... i was talking about the problem with figuring out "what fault caused the earthquake..."

8/23/2011 3:38:07 PM

felt it here in Winston-Salem

8/23/2011 3:38:18 PM

back down to 5.8

8/23/2011 3:40:14 PM

Well shit I didn't feel anything. Stupid campus ground must be rock solid

8/23/2011 3:40:44 PM

ha... my aunt who is visiting from new jersey was on TV!

8/23/2011 3:45:53 PM

now they are saying the Washington Monument is damaged, may even be tilting.... is this true?

8/23/2011 3:51:53 PM

really?? still have that invite?

8/23/2011 3:52:35 PM

^^where?

8/23/2011 3:53:16 PM

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hasZ3FPwkh60QXFi1-9gHtqxuI0g?docId=3e1ff6fb9364424787b03d8ad92dae7c

8/23/2011 3:53:24 PM

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"Well shit I didn't feel anything. Stupid campus ground must be rock solid"

that would actually make you more inclined to feel the affects

8/23/2011 3:55:22 PM

You knew WRAL would find something like this for the front page.

8/23/2011 3:59:44 PM

^^ whatever, we don't need no geology in here

^ And that's the NYT image. WTG.

[Edited on August 23, 2011 at 4:00 PM. Reason : ]

8/23/2011 3:59:50 PM

All this hard work certifying the backup diesels for a seismic event paid off

8/23/2011 4:01:27 PM

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"^ And that's the NYT image. WTG."

No, I'm pretty sure it's only on WRAL and nowhere else.

[Edited on August 23, 2011 at 4:02 PM. Reason : s]

8/23/2011 4:01:46 PM

actually thats an AP photo taken by J. Scott Applewhite

8/23/2011 4:07:31 PM

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"Office workers gather on the sidewalk in downtown Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, moments after a 5.9 magnitude tremor shook the nation's capitol. The earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., shook much of Washington, D.C., and was felt as far north as Rhode Island and New York City. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)"

8/23/2011 4:08:15 PM

close-up with a wide-angle lens

8/23/2011 4:09:07 PM

i thought jason took that pic

8/23/2011 4:09:47 PM

the picture on WTVD has me loling

8/23/2011 4:14:56 PM

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"now they are saying the Washington Monument is damaged, may even be tilting.... is this true"

Quote :

"^^where?"

In D.C.

[Edited on August 23, 2011 at 4:18 PM. Reason : .]

8/23/2011 4:18:11 PM

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"that would actually make you more inclined to feel the affects"

Feel the effects

You know what I mean, son

8/23/2011 4:18:14 PM

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/23/us-quake-usa-cathedral-idUSTRE77M7O720110823

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"(Reuters) - The Washington National Cathedral, the highest point in the capital, suffered damage in Tuesday's earthquake, with three spires in the central tower breaking off of the gothic-style building, a spokesman said. Richard Weinberg, director of communications at the Episcopal cathedral, said the three pinnacles on the 30-story-high central tower had broken off and were lying in the grass. "A fourth is leaning," said Weinberg. "There was other minor structural damage to buttresses and smaller pinnacles." No one was injured from the damage, but the cathedral -- host to state funerals, and memorial services for many U.S. presidents and the site of several presidential inaugural prayer services -- was closed to the public so the building could be inspected. The cathedral, which weighs 150,000 tons and took 83 years to complete, is a solid masonry structure made of limestone blocks placed one atop another. The flying buttresses are also solid stone, and they help hold up the walls by bracing them. The roof is held up by a steel beam structure, but does not help hold up the rest of the cathedral. Other damage reported from the earthquake in Washington occurred at the Ecuador Embassy, a recorded message by the D.C. Fire and EMS agency said."

I guess the rumor was about the cathedral and not the monument. I've sung there, it's a beautiful place

8/23/2011 4:25:22 PM

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"No, I'm pretty sure it's only on WRAL and nowhere else. "

lolomg keeep digging

8/23/2011 5:17:35 PM

You really don't understand sarcasm even when it's blatantly obvious.

8/23/2011 5:22:01 PM

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"You knew WRAL would find something like this for the front page."

= obvious sarcasm?

8/23/2011 5:28:57 PM

i cant get over how cool it was. last 3 times they claimed earthquake i was like BULLSHIT.

i guess for the small ones you just have to be up in the air some.

earthquake cherry busted

i can finally say with confidence, "you will NOT have to ask"

its like the building i was in was going left and right for like 15 seconds. sooo rad

aftershocks now!!11

8/23/2011 5:31:17 PM

i think its funny because if it happened in new orleans, they would blame the government for it. something like from the movie "the core"

8/23/2011 5:56:55 PM

Didn't feel it in Durham. Didn't learn until about 5 minutes ago that one had even happened.

8/23/2011 6:04:15 PM

So what you're saying is that Durham sucks so bad that not even the earthquake wanted to go there?

8/23/2011 6:05:03 PM

it wasnt a real earthquake. the government was doing some nuclear tests....or.....someone blew up one of our secret plants thats underground. i wouldnt drink the water in VA anytime soon.

8/23/2011 6:07:52 PM

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"You knew WRAL would find something like this for the front page."

Quote :

"= obvious sarcasm?"

No...That was a jab at WRAL for using the all-to-easy panic photo. This was obvious sarcasm:

Quote :

"No, I'm pretty sure it's only on WRAL and nowhere else. "

8/23/2011 6:15:54 PM

felt it in class today. At first I thought it was just people stomping around upstairs. But its good to know it was a natural disaster and not just elephant people

8/23/2011 6:16:58 PM

stupid earthquake safe building, i didnt feel shit

8/23/2011 6:17:42 PM

I am unpleasantly surprised that Harrelson building survived. Why won't that place just sink into the ground already

8/23/2011 6:19:51 PM

Didn't feel a damn thing in Chapel Hill

(i've been through earthquakes b4 though)

8/23/2011 6:49:32 PM

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"do 5.8 earthquakes usually get felt in such a large geographic span?? there's reports from NY to SC"

dont know if its been noted yet but the softer ground on the east coast allows waves to travel further while they diminish quickly in the solid rock out west.

8/23/2011 6:49:33 PM

actually it has more to do with the west coast being on the edge of the tectonic plate, which allows energy to dissipate for several reasons, most of which the ground being fractured with so many recent faults that fail to transmit the eq waves as well.

8/23/2011 7:08:56 PM

That's what hitting the debt ceiling feels like!

8/23/2011 7:29:59 PM

cnn.com's current headline photo:

8/23/2011 8:06:05 PM

Hearing on Facebook another earthquake just happened. 4.2 magnitude

8/23/2011 8:21:00 PM

confirmed

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/N_America.php

[Edited on August 23, 2011 at 8:24 PM. Reason : ]

8/23/2011 8:24:28 PM

if so, i didn't feel it this time

8/23/2011 8:24:36 PM

you wouldn't feel that from here most likely.

8/23/2011 8:26:04 PM