Reply With QuoteListen, you get earthquakes as your crappy natural phenomenon. We get 7 months of winter. We don't want both.Originally Posted by Coca Cola Zero
Whoops, Ottawa, that's what I meant!
Listen, you get earthquakes as your crappy natural phenomenon. We get 7 months of winter. We don't want both.
Magnets.
It's not unheard of. The New Madrid Earthquakes were felt all over the Eastern half of the US.
I would not want to live in Memphis, St. Louis, or any of the other cities in the New Madrid Seismic Zone for this reason. The next time there's a big one (and it's only a matter of when, not if) there's gonna be a lot of damage due to no earthquake code.
Last edited by Athryn; 06-23-2010 at 11:10 AM.
Looks like it was a 5.5 on the Quebec border
Felt in in South Boston. too.
Didn't feel a damn thing in Watertown.
How the fuck did you feel that in Boston? I'm way closer to it's epicenter and I didn't feel anything.
Or maybe I just don't understand earthquakes.
An earthquake Ontario/Quebec border the day before St-Jean-de-Baptiste?
If God exists, then this is a clear message that he is for the separation :) !
(but he doesn't, so he isn't)
My whole building just shook in Somerville, MA. I'm on the 4th floor.
Neat!
I'm so disappointed in you. :(
Well, that was some creepy shit. Straightening the pictures on the wall.
It's not even a real country anyway!
Felt it here in Rochester!
It could make sense depending on the actual location of the earthquake in the Earth's crust and the composition between Boston and the center vs. New York and the center.
Also, holy shit, earthquake in Kingston. I was alone in my living room and am currently suffering a mono/strep throat-like virus and I just assumed I was going insane.
Don't make me come over there!
Seriously, I can't afford it.
Yeah, I was sitting in a conference room here (in Detroit), and I was watching the trees outside blow in the wind, and as the building is swaying, I think, wow, that's some heavy wind.
And then I remember that I'm in a low, wide brick building, and that buildings like that don't sway with the wind.
My first earthquake ever, whoo!
We have new neighbors moving in next door, and I thought that they had scraped the side of our house with their moving truck (the houses are a driveway's width apart). But I looked outside and: no truck. Crazy!
Well, I'm in an old building that's built on a landfill. A friend of mine on the North Shore felt the same thing.
It felt like the building was rolling on an ocean.
Oh. Burlington, VT.
Feeling quakes all depends on soil composition in relation to distance and propagation. Some buildings evacuated and damage in Ottawa.
--- Alan
We were a bit worried here, because our office is a 200-year-old brick building, and the masonry probably wasn't designed with earthquakes in mind. But no harm done, this time.
This was my first quake. Was 8 stories up and it shook my apartment pretty good. After it was done I wasted a couple minutes wondering if it was a real earthquake or if I had imagined it or something.
I'm pretty sure I felt it. It didn't really shake anything, but there was a strange noise with no apparent source at around that same time. I thought maybe someone was mowing my yard or a big truck was driving by, but there was nothing there. Some storms were on the way, so I thought maybe thunder, but no other thunder happened. But I'm pretty far from the area (couple of hours south of Cleveland), so it could have been something else.
G20 protesters have gone too far this time! Causing earthquakes to get their message across!?
I'm 25km north of Toronto and I didn't feel a thing, but I was in a basement. I was listening to talk radio and the host cut off the guy he was interviewing and starting saying "Is the building shaking? Is anyone else feeling this?" and I immediately thought someone had set off a bomb downtown or something.
I turn forty today and BOOM! Fucking EARTHQUAKE, motherfuckers! MY EXISTENCE IS AN AFFRONT TO THE UNIVERSE!
Happy bearfday!
Thanks!
It says a lot about me that the thing I find most disturbing about that picture is the Comic Sans.
I was at my lab here in Montreal, on the fourth floor of a hospital building, and several of us felt the floor bouncing. I commented that the construction of a nearby hospital pavilion was getting pretty intense. Only hours later did I hear it had been an earthquake. It really did feel rhythmic, like the pounding of a giant jackhammer.
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