It was in Virginia and I felt the main wave and a few aftershocks in the past few days. Now I have to deal with Hurricane Irene. I'm located in southeast PA so I have to deal with a good amount of both disasters.
Super volcano thing kinda makes sense but it was around dc
dragonblaze did say earthquakes could happen anywhere... I googled a bit, and found this site, that even refers to the recent earthquake, it sounds interesting. Have a nice read.
Meanwhile, Peru had a 6.9 earthquake on wednesday. So don't freak out for a 5.8..
I live on the east coast in the U.S. and I felt the earthquake.I look around my town and there was some serious ''PRETTYserious'' damage. This is what we found.
I live on the east coast in the U.S. and I felt the earthquake.I look around my town and there was some serious ''PRETTY serious'' damage. This is what we found.
It knocked over part of the woodpile in my backyard, but that's it for here. Oh, and some busted ceiling tiles in an office 30-40 miles away (as per newspaper).
Yes, there have been a lot of earthquakes lately because of japans 9.0 magnitude earthquake (correct me if its 8.9 or 9.1?). The cause of this is if a earthquake is powerful enough, it will crack parts of the earths core, this causing more (smaller) earthquakes. I don't know if this is why before but its a likely possibilty
Explain to me how you crack liquid. Cracking the plates would be reasonable I suppose, if a large enough shudder went through them, but, it would be minimal. Earthquakes are caused by fault lines, when two or more plates are pushed together and energy builds up, and then something gives, resulting in an earthquake.
All of the doomsday theorists and generally ignorant people have been freaking out about this. But, honestly, its not the first quake that's hit that area of Virginia. Yea, its one of the bigger ones, but not the first one.
Apparently there is a 4 inch crack on the Washington monument, a crack in the roof of grand central station and an angel fell of the grand cathedral. That's the most serous damage