Did anyone feel the earthquake in NYC?

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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited August 2011
    This should be a wake up call to you Easterner earthquake newbies - upgrade your building codes, condemn unsafe buildings, and learn what to do in an earthquake - running outside like I've been reading what lots of folks did is an epic fail.

    H9: If you don't trust what you are hearing, then maybe you need to be less invested in a hobby which all the pleasure comes from listening to music.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited August 2011
    It's an epic succeed if you escape w/o injury !:cool:
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  • TECHNOKID
    TECHNOKID Posts: 4,298
    edited August 2011
    halo71 wrote: »
    "Honey, the earthquake made the magnets on my Polk's shift and fall off. I'm gonna have to buy new speakers now!"
    brgman wrote: »
    Now THAT"S a story i can run with!
    Humm, LSiM in the horizon, eh? :wink:
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited August 2011
    Wow, 3rd page and no end of the world, 2012 scenarios yet. You guys are slippin' in your old age.
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  • TECHNOKID
    TECHNOKID Posts: 4,298
    edited August 2011
    Eh, GV around? I wonder if the Igloo managed to stand the small ''earthwave'' coming from the US? My Igloo is now a simple snow bank but its Ok, I use it as a cooler for my ''polar beer'' and I turned my HT into a drive in ($$$$ in the horizon). :wink:
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  • Grimster74
    Grimster74 Posts: 2,573
    edited August 2011
    Well, I'm about 30 minutes from the epicenter, basically a stones throw away and all I can say is that was the craziest thing I've ever felt. I was in the middle of Walmart getting ready to head back to the time clock to clock out when all hell broke lose. I thought the damn building was gonna come down on us. The grocery department got leveled with everything falling off the shelves, it was so bad that they had to shut down the store for a few hours to clean up after they inspected the building of course. My first earthquake EVER that I can remember but I have to say, it felt really cool. Now, for you guys that go through it all the time and laugh at the 5.8 we had, I can only imagine what a REAL quake fells like. All in all things are good and we lived to tell about it but like I said, really interesting day to say the least.
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  • brgman
    brgman Posts: 2,859
    edited August 2011
    tonyb wrote: »
    Wow, 3rd page and no end of the world, 2012 scenarios yet. You guys are slippin' in your old age.

    Naw.everybody knows the hurricane is gonna kill us.:rolleyes:
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,004
    edited August 2011
    Yeah......sorry about that fellas. We'll try not to play the 1812 so loud next time. Didn't think anybody would notice but I guess we were wrong.
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited August 2011
    Imagine all that shaking lasting throughout the day. Tremors and much aftershock, paints a picture of what Japan was like just on a smaller level.
    Shoot the jumper.....................BALLIN.............!!!!!

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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,007
    edited August 2011
    I was out walking , Noah in the stroller and Rudy along with us. Got home my wife asked if we felt anything...Nothing what so ever, she said the house was shaking...weird
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited August 2011
    stuwee wrote: »
    My power was cycling on and off about 20 times every half hour for an hour at that time, very strange...I-Sig, riverratt, was yours doing the same?


    Irene is coming in a few days for another punch to your area out there, that'll make I-95 a parking lot for sure :frown:

    I was working on the Eastside, and they didn't have power issues. My wife was off today and she didn't mention anything (we're up near Oro Valley).
    My equipment sig felt inadequate and deleted itself.
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,192
    edited August 2011
    I was in Princeton NJ and didn't feel a thing. The MRS of the house came up and told us that their was Earth Quakes happening , Then I learned it shook Bucks County PA which is where I lived. My wife called me and told me it shock pretty good as the iMac was swaying back and forth. She thought that someone was working underground in the neighbor hood and using Dynamite.
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited August 2011
    I was working in Norfolk Va and felt the tremors...pretty strange.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited August 2011
    Trust me on this, considering I live on top of the Hayward Fault, the earthquake fault likely to cause the next great San Francisco earthquake....Vibrapods underneath your gear work like a charm.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,004
    edited August 2011
    Yeah, wouldn't want to interrupt the tunes while devastation is going on. The Audio Gods would frown on that.
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited August 2011
    Earthquake just happened here less than 5 mins ago....

    3.9 according to USGS

    Looks like Hayward Fault....and I am right on top of it
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited August 2011
    8/23. Never forget.

    DC-Quake-300x193.jpg
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • TNRabbit
    TNRabbit Posts: 2,168
    edited August 2011
    USGS downgraded the VA quake to 5.8 on their website. Felt it here in Southern Maryland (Pax River NAS) while I was at work; VERY slow North-South oriented swaying, then I told my coworker "We're having an earthquake!". He said "I feel it!" then BAM! Follow-on moving back & forth about 6-8" went on for about 30 seconds-1 minute. It felt freaky.

    We had a big 6.8 in Turkey when I was there in the late 90s & the roads were rolling like ocean waves--cars were bouncing completely off their tires. I thought my entire apartment building was going to tumble~
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited August 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    8/23. Never forget.

    DC-Quake-300x193.jpg

    Oops. Hotlinking issue

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    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • mudwrx
    mudwrx Posts: 367
    edited August 2011
    I was in Cooperstown, NY and it was felt there too.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited August 2011
    Map of all places reporting feeling the quake.:wink:
    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/se/082311a/us/index.html
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited August 2011
    http://us.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/24/lohman.quake.east.coast/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

    It's weird. A good amount of people stayed home today I don't know why. There is a greater threat from Hurricane Irene than there was from an earthquake. Very little damage in Philly too and most buildings and structures came out of it unscathed. Yet everybody is freaked out. It was eerie last night too. Dead quiet. Seemed like everyone went to bed early or something.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited August 2011
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    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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