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Earthquake in Virginia rattles New York.

post #1 of 28
8/23/11 at 11:27am
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I thought I was going crazy when my pictures were just falling off of my walls and my HDTV was shaking while I was listening to music. The tremors came all the way to upstate NY. Did any of you guys in my region feel the tremors too?

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post #2 of 28
8/23/11 at 11:33am
Not here. Colorado had a 5.2 quake last night.
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post #3 of 28
8/23/11 at 11:41am

Just returned from a full building evac here in Jersey City, NJ.

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post #4 of 28
8/23/11 at 11:58am

I was smoking a cigarette while it happened. I had no idea what was going on.

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post #5 of 28
8/23/11 at 12:03pm

heard about the news in dunkin donuts... apparently it could be felt in new england...didn't feel it though

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post #6 of 28
8/23/11 at 12:08pm

I'm about 50 miles from the epicenter, which was north-west of Richmond, VA.  Our building in Fairfax (I was on the 5th floor) and sit near the windows) was shaking like a mother ***.  I headed right for the exit door, the stairwell and proceeded down the steps.  Half-way to the first floor, I felt another bit of tremor effect.  Then, 10 seconds later a big "whoosh" sound that sounded like a big vacuum or vortex - I'm not sure if air was released from the elevator chamber to create that effect or not.  Some of my co-workers were on the elevator come back  up to our floor when it happened.  They were visibly shaking (literally).

 

We spent about 20 minutes outside before being allowed back inside.  I did hear of an office building in the Tysons Corner area that experienced some glass breakage.

 

This is just nuts.

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post #7 of 28
8/23/11 at 12:24pm

I was in Queens, NY and the building I was working at shook a little bit. I felt the floor wave a bit and then we had a building evacuation for around 20-30 minutes. After that the building was closed for the rest of the day. 

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post #8 of 28
8/23/11 at 12:32pm
Wild, I wonder how many right coast building are seismically reinforced? It's law out here, but where earthquakes are generally rare, I'd expect more building leeway.
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post #9 of 28
8/23/11 at 12:49pm
Had a good shake here in Philly. My cell service won't call out. Wierd thing is my phone's internet works. Land line calls are spotty. I knew it was a quake while it was happening. A bit surreal.
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post #10 of 28
8/23/11 at 12:58pm

felt it here in Central PA too. I was on the top floor of my house (3rd floor), and i thought we got hit by a crazy strong wind gust, but i couldn't hear wind. Then I realized it was the ground shaking. Pretty nuts, never felt an earthquake before. The funny thing is that there were fb posts up withing 30 seconds of it happening

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post #11 of 28
8/23/11 at 1:01pm

Felt it on Long Island as well,Actually the first time I ever felt one that I realized what it was.The floor was like jello,No damage.

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post #12 of 28
8/23/11 at 1:28pm

There's an area awfully close (20 miles) from the epicenter - Lake Anna, where they have a working nuclear reactor.  This makes it sound like we were near a major catastrophe.

 

 

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North Anna Nuclear Generating Station, operated by Dominion Generation in Mineral, VA is located only 20 miles from the epicenter of the earthquake.

According to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission study published in August 2010, the estimated risk each year of an earthquake strong enough to cause core damage to the reactor at North Anna was 1 in 22,727 – the nuclear plant with the estimated 7th highest risk of earthquake-caused damage in the United States.

The Christian Post's calls to the North Anna Nuclear plant have not been answered at the time of press.

 

http://www.christianpost.com/news/virginia-earthquake-epicenter-only-20-miles-from-nuclear-power-plant-54383/

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post #13 of 28
8/23/11 at 1:57pm

It was surreal indeed.  I felt the entire house shaking.  

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post #14 of 28
8/23/11 at 3:08pm

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Originally Posted by wje View Post

There's an area awfully close (20 miles) from the epicenter - Lake Anna, where they have a working nuclear reactor.  This makes it sound like we were near a major catastrophe.

 

 


According to the OP's source, two reactors nearby were taken off-line and neither has reported damage.

 

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post #15 of 28
8/23/11 at 3:18pm
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According to the OP's source, two reactors nearby were taken off-line and neither has reported damage.

 

Yes, and that was a good thing - apparently, an orderly shut down was successfully achieved.  Ironically, the lake is a large lake and features a lot of homes around it - both year-round and seasonal homes.  It's a large enough lake where people can utilize their speedboats - the lake frontage is 10 miles and the lake itself covers 13,000 acres.

 

 

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