North East people....did you feel the earthquake?
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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/23...ashington-d-c/
Fealt it here in Rochester, NY. Anyone else in the NE feel it?
Fealt it here in Rochester, NY. Anyone else in the NE feel it?
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It lasted about 40-50 seconds. I was having lunch and thought it was a big loaded truck driving through, but it just kept on vibrating. The whole house vibrated, plants and trees, and the ground you are standing on! It's a constant vibration like a tremor. It's weird as hell because the world known around you that you know seems so vulnerable and you're just along for the ride. The large buildings sway, so it's bad if people are at work, or the metro collapses because there's no way out. Scary as hell.
We don't get quakes, especially that big here, so I thought the world was ending or something.
We don't get quakes, especially that big here, so I thought the world was ending or something.
I only noticed the car i was working on sort of shaking on the lift, didn't think anything of it until the mrs called a minute later and told me.
My boss came running down stairs from his office and said everything was shaking up there so idk
I'm copying this link you posted from the shout box because its hilarious
Visionz Icon : (23 August 2011 - 02:45 PM) Check out the devastation that the earthquake caused in DC: http://jmckinley.pos...ake-devastation
*Well i can't get the link to work so you'll have to post it again
My boss came running down stairs from his office and said everything was shaking up there so idk
I'm copying this link you posted from the shout box because its hilarious
Visionz Icon : (23 August 2011 - 02:45 PM) Check out the devastation that the earthquake caused in DC: http://jmckinley.pos...ake-devastation
*Well i can't get the link to work so you'll have to post it again
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It sucked that this dominated the radio news for the rest of the day. Transcript:
NEWS FLASH: There was still an earthquake. Still no reports of significant damage or injuries. Let's go to the yokel on the street!
"reporter": Did you feel it?
yokel: I totally did!
Reporter: What did you feel?
yokel: it was lossa shakin goin on!
Now back to your regularly scheduled program, already in progress . . .
. . . fast forward 7.5 minutes . . . .
NEWS FLASH: There was still an earthquake. Still no reports of significant damage or injuries. Let's go to the yokel on the street!
"reporter": Did you feel it?
yokel: I totally did!
Reporter: What did you feel?
yokel: it was lossa shakin goin on!
Now back to your regularly scheduled program, already in progress . . .
. . . fast forward 7.5 minutes . . .
NEWS FLASH: There was still an earthquake. Still no reports of significant damage or injuries. Let's go to the yokel on the street!
"reporter": Did you feel it?
yokel: I totally did!
Reporter: What did you feel?
yokel: it was lossa shakin goin on!
Now back to your regularly scheduled program, already in progress . . .
. . . fast forward 7.5 minutes . . .
This was a non-event and there was nothing to report besides damage to the national cathedral.
NEWS FLASH: There was still an earthquake. Still no reports of significant damage or injuries. Let's go to the yokel on the street!
"reporter": Did you feel it?
yokel: I totally did!
Reporter: What did you feel?
yokel: it was lossa shakin goin on!
Now back to your regularly scheduled program, already in progress . . .
. . . fast forward 7.5 minutes . . . .
NEWS FLASH: There was still an earthquake. Still no reports of significant damage or injuries. Let's go to the yokel on the street!
"reporter": Did you feel it?
yokel: I totally did!
Reporter: What did you feel?
yokel: it was lossa shakin goin on!
Now back to your regularly scheduled program, already in progress . . .
. . . fast forward 7.5 minutes . . .
NEWS FLASH: There was still an earthquake. Still no reports of significant damage or injuries. Let's go to the yokel on the street!
"reporter": Did you feel it?
yokel: I totally did!
Reporter: What did you feel?
yokel: it was lossa shakin goin on!
Now back to your regularly scheduled program, already in progress . . .
. . . fast forward 7.5 minutes . . .
This was a non-event and there was nothing to report besides damage to the national cathedral.
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Haha well okay I just looked into it and the articles say that the number of earthquakes has been constant. But there is still a lot of things we don't know, like for instance reversal of the earths poles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
(read "Effects on biosphere and human society")
"In simulations, it is observed that magnetic field lines can sometimes become tangled and disorganized through the chaotic motions of liquid metal in the Earth's core."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
(read "Effects on biosphere and human society")
"In simulations, it is observed that magnetic field lines can sometimes become tangled and disorganized through the chaotic motions of liquid metal in the Earth's core."
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Meanwhile back at the ranch, some people hypothesize that the earth's core is solid. Nobody knows, and nobody has been around for a pole reversal or magnetic mishmash.
2012: aint skeerd.
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