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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:06 PM
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Earthquake!!! Richmond Va. I think
Just a few minutes ago. Everyone came out in the hall and we all looked at each other. One of my co-workers had a picture fall off of a shelf.

My wife just called me, she works about 15 miles west of here. They felt it too, the plants on her window seal shifted.

Probably nothing serious but we just aren't used to that.
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Frodo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:08 PM
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1. Underground nuclear testing..
... at the secret DOD Mechanicsville location under the Cracker Barell.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:08 PM
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2. Ssssh
They aren't supposed to know about that.
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:09 PM
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3. i've been trying to post on this too (but couldn't figure out how)
I felt it in Arlington, VA, as did my folks about 4 miles away, as did Don and Mike on their radio show in Fairfax (only 20 or so miles away I guess), but jeez the radio is saying Richmond etc.

Woah! Thought maybe Cheney was digging another hidey hole...

How in the world do you start a message thread?
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FlaGranny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:16 PM
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12. Look at the top of the
page. Click on "post" and type your message. You have to be in a forum, but not already in a thread to begin a new thread.
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:20 PM
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16. thanks, for the life of me I couldn't find that option
i'll go look now
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commander bunnypants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:09 PM
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4. It was pretty weird
DDQM
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:10 PM
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5. The earth moved?
And Miz U.P. was 15 miles away?
Dude, yer busted!
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:12 PM
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8. Busted? Hell! I'm a freakin' GOD!!!!!!!!!
:9 :evilgrin: :crazy:
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:10 PM
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6. we felt it in Hillsborough, NC!
house shook. very bizarre!
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:14 PM
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11. Yikes NW of Durham? (map)
http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?csz=Hillsborough%
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:16 PM
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13. yeah, we're about halfway between
Hillsborough and Chapel Hill, and our house shook mildly. The chimney made some noise and dolo amber's drink did the Jurassic Park dance. Local news only says "there may have been an earthquake."
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Frodo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:16 PM
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14. If they felt it in WTOP country, then Durham is almost as close
Assuming it IS centered on that Cracker Barell.
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:11 PM
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7. it was officially an earthquake, according to WTOP news
quoting the us geological survey

epicenter and magnitude won't be known for 15 mins or so
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alwynsw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:27 PM
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17. Epicenter was abot 30-40 mmiles west of Richmond.
Don't have magnitude yet, but current estimates are around 4.0
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EarlG ADMIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:13 PM
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9. I felt our office shake
at around 4:00pm for just a couple of seconds. They're doing construction work in the street outside so I assumed it was something to do with that... but I guess it might not have been...

Washington, DC here.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:35 PM
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22. Where in DC?
I'm at 26th & M NW, on the edge of G'town, didn't feel it
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:13 PM
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10. figures, after I move from there to earthquake USA
now they start getting them

nothing yet on the USGS site:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Maps/US10/32.42.-85.-75.html
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:19 PM
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15. Co-worker says a DJ says 3.2 not sure where the epicenter was
That is all.
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Blue_Chill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:28 PM
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18. Yeah I felt that in Fairfax VA
I felt like I was back in Chile then I realised the buildings here are made of toothpicks and glue.

No more earthquakes please, thanks in advance.
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goobergunch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:31 PM
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19. Didn't notice a thing in Chester County, Southeast Pennsylvania (n/t)
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:32 PM
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20. MAP and details 4.5 28 miles 23 miles WNW of Richmond
Fluvanna area

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/uscdbf.htm
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Frodo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:40 PM
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25. That's close to my parents... and I can't reach them on landline or cell.
We used to live in SoCal, so 4.5 is really nothing (a 6.0 is about 50 times as strong), but I can't believe there are phone problems!?
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:34 PM
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21. There was a small earthquake in Norman, Oklahoma yesterday..
everyone thought that it must have been a result of OU being selected to play in the Sugar Bowl for the national championship....thought the gods must have be unhappy with the decision of the BCS.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:36 PM
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23. Did anyone yet post the "did you feel it" link?
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/

Report where you were, how it felt, etc. Got used to using this link back home.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 04:38 PM
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24. Hey guess what there is a fault line under the Nuke plant on Lake Anna Va.
Just found out from my stepfather. That is a little west of the epicenter so no problem there.
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