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East Coasters- are you ok?
Just got word a earthquake hit Virgina, DC and NY.
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We do. We also did earthquake drills in school. I don't know if they do that out east, though. Earthquakes aren't unheard of here, though.
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Stupid nest! Sorry for the multiple posts, I will try to delete in a minute. We just were allowed back in our building. It was quite the sight with multiple high rises evacuating at the same time. Fun times! The feeling from the 8th floor was pretty surreal. There was a definite sway!
OMG, we're back inside and they claim our buildings are structurally sound. Hmpf! I sure hope so, but not sure how they could say that after just half an hour for a building that isn't built for earthquakes when all the property mgmt guys were outside freaked out with us. Pretty much everyone has left and is logging in from home including my boss. I'm just going to leave early :P We got the F out of the building as soon as the swaying stopped. I'm 17 floors up. We heard tons of sirens when we got outside as an older building on a street a block over partially collapsed.
I have to say that there is a reason I don't live in CA and this is why...I'm totally freaked out. Everyone is. We have no protocols here for earthquakes. The wall of heavy files just behind me was swaying and it caught my eye first and my chair was rolling on its own. At first a lot of us thought that it was just a fat person stomping through which sometimes will cause little shakes, but then we all realized no fat person, no stomping, shaking still going, and it was MUCH stronger. It felt like it lasted a LONG time, too. Some of the older ladies thought they were having strokes or something b/c they were trying to walk and couldn't steady themselves. LOL.
ETA: If a 5.8 in Virginia felt like this in CT, I cannot imagine what the people in China felt in that 9.0 (or whatever it was) earthquake.
I am glad you are ok.
It sucks but having earthquakes are a reminder to have an evacuation plan. Not only at work but with your family.
again, glad everyone is ok and safe and sound.
Guess what the big news is here....they are interviewing seismologists and such and it was actually interesting to learn a few things I didn't know. When we get earthquakes here you genrelly don't feel them a few hundred miles away because the rocks here are warm. The rocks on the east coast are colder and can generate movement further so that's why so many of you guys felt it and the rest of the east coast. If it were like that here then Amy and I would be sharing earthquakes!
Once you've been through a few it's no big deal. The difference between there and CA is that in CA many of our buildings are retrofitted with rollers and reinforced so that when the earth starts shaking the building rolls with it. Out there there's plenty of brick mason buildings that are not reinforced.
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This is the concern I think... I bet you a dollar that we'll hear all about how to have your foundation inspected on the news tonight!