Earthquake!

Filed in National by on August 23, 2011

Earthquake confirmed here.

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  1. anonone says:
    August 23, 2011 at 2:21 pm

    There is a Tsunami watch at Lums Pond.

  2. nemski says:
    August 23, 2011 at 2:26 pm

    I’m seeing it at 5.9 now. http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

  3. puck says:
    August 23, 2011 at 2:27 pm

    It was actually a fun ride. For some reason I immediately knew what was happening, and (probably stupidly), I was not afraid and was able to absorb the experience, just sitting in my upstairs office. I felt safe and felt like it wasn’t going to get any worse.

    About 10-15 seconds of pretty good shaking, with teacups rattling, then another 10-15 seconds of gentle rolling or vibration with no objects rattling. Now I know what they mean by the “liquefication” of the earth. Toward the end it definitely had that feeling, like the house was riding on a giant shaking mud pie.

  4. puck says:
    August 23, 2011 at 2:32 pm

    Expect aftershocks.

    “It’s one of the largest that we’ve had there,” USGS seismologist Lucy Jones told CNN. Aftershocks were a concern, she said. “People should be expecting (them), especially over the next hour or two,” she added.

  5. MJ says:
    August 23, 2011 at 2:38 pm

    Carole King is singing on The Mall right now and there is a tsunami in the Tidal Basin.

  6. Delaware Dem says:
    August 23, 2011 at 2:42 pm

    We felt nothing down in Charlotte, NC, but the people on the phone from various other places on the East Coast (Philly, Baltimore, DC, NYC, Pittsburgh) all started shouting.

  7. Zafo Jones says:
    August 23, 2011 at 2:42 pm

    I laughed and said “wee!” My co-workers glared at me.

    Good times, good times.

  8. MJ says:
    August 23, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    I’ve heard that the Potomac has turned to blood and that locusts are in the forecast.

  9. fightingbluehen says:
    August 23, 2011 at 3:02 pm

    Pretty good shake here in Lewes. Paintings on walls are all crooked. Land line phone was out for about fifteen minutes.I thought it was a big helicopter. My wife blamed me of course.

  10. liberalgeek says:
    August 23, 2011 at 3:42 pm

    Somewhere, Eliot Jacobson is authoring an email asking if Karen Hartly-Nagle felt the earth move, too.

  11. puck says:
    August 23, 2011 at 3:49 pm

    It’s Obama’s fault.

  12. anonone says:
    August 23, 2011 at 4:02 pm

    That’s a beautiful sentiment, LG.

  13. Dominique says:
    August 23, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    Obama will be making a statement blaming it on the Tea Party soon.

  14. Dana says:
    August 23, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    You mean it’s no longer George Bush’s fault?

  15. Dana says:
    August 23, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    Women and minorities most heavily impacted.

  16. puck says:
    August 23, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    Red states apply for Federal disaster relief out of habit.

  17. pandora says:
    August 23, 2011 at 4:41 pm

    We felt it here in Boston! Amazing!

  18. El Somnambulo says:
    August 23, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    First picture of earthquake wreckage is here:

    http://jmckinley.posterous.com/dc-earthquake-devastation

  19. Von Cracker says:
    August 23, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    Yeah, if the cooling tower at Salem cracked, some of these loser trolls, or as J calls em, the fuckfaces would still support all that de-regging of the Aughts.

  20. puck says:
    August 23, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    True, but they’d be doing it from a FEMA trailer miles upwind. Or between rolling brownouts.

  21. skippertee says:
    August 23, 2011 at 4:55 pm

    It proved to be an auspicious sign for me.
    Tango Yankee, Earthquake!

  22. jason330 says:
    August 23, 2011 at 5:47 pm

    I was on the beach at Cape Henelopen. An odd group dynamic played out about a minute after the shake. One guy on the beach said, “Did you feel that?” Then almost in unison, everybody within earshot of that one guy said something similar to, “Oh yeah, I thought it was just me.” Then, with the ice broken, we were all tight.

  23. jason330 says:
    August 24, 2011 at 11:57 am

    Read Kavips post at dkos about the possibility that fracking for gas caused the earthquake.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/24/1010047/-Was-The-August-23rd-Earthquake-Man-made?via=siderec

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