Who felt the quake?

[adder70]

Really, we had one! Here in Richmond! Surprised the hell out of me that we have those here, but it isn't too often. The last 4+ magnitude quake here was in 1984. This one was 4.5 and the hypocenter (surface point above epicenter) is about 15 miles from my office. Our floor shakes noticeably when anyone walks by, so we were trying to decide if it was even a quake until people started getting/making calls to wives, etc and confirming that people felt it all over the city. I had gone brain dead and was playing a quick game online, and I barely even looked up until peple started talking quake! It basically felt like being on a bridge and having big truck go by.

I had to give my boss some grief. He said when he hired me and I was moving that the weather here was about like Atlanta: just a bit of snow once or maybe twice a year, not much bad weather, etc.

WELL. After 11 months here, I have experienced 8" of sleet (seemed like about 12" of snow after the snow packs) that stayted on the ground and roads for at least 2 weeks, a Hurricane (Isabel), and now an earthquake!

Sure, JUST like Atlanta!

 

[WileEDiver]

What? An earthquake somewhere other than in California?

You can expect a call from my mother any minute now!

 

[DennisW]

It was felt all the way down here in Hampton where I work. I didn't feel it, but one of the ladies in the office did.

 

[coberry7]

I couldnt resist this post....Atlanta had an Earthquake last year! I thought the cat was trying to get onto the bed, then the building rumbled. Thought a train had derailed!

Used to live in California. Only felt one small one there.

Yup, Richmond seems to be very similar to Atlanta!

 

[scubasean]

adder70 once bubbled...
This one was 4.5 and the hypocenter (surface point above epicenter) is about 15 miles from my office.

You call that an EARTHQUAKE????

LOL

We have more movement than that whan a big truck goes by on the freeway....(just kidding)

I've been in so many <5 scale earthquakes in CA that I lost count long ago.

 

[adder70]

coberry7 once bubbled...
I couldnt resist this post....Atlanta had an Earthquake last year! I thought the cat was trying to get onto the bed, then the building rumbled. Thought a train had derailed!

Used to live in California. Only felt one small one there.

Yup, Richmond seems to be very similar to Atlanta!

I can't remember if I was out of town or just didn't feel it. (You do mean in 2002, right?) I was in Atlanta until Jan 3, and I seem to remember something about it, but I thought it was even smaller than the one here.

And yeah, in the 3 years in Atlanta, we had the ice storm and the snow storm, and apparently the earthquake about which I had forgotten. Now that I think about it, the similarities are there! I just seem to bring the freak weather with me wherever I go! (Beware! I could be moving to YOUR area soon! )

Corey

 

[coberry7]

Yeah, it was 2002 sometime. I can't even remember the time of year. It was a little one, no damage. It happened at exactly 5am one morning. I felt it because the Vinings train made a LOUD noise that woke me up. I thought it had derailed. That was 4:45am. I've since heard that noise again and realize it is the sound of all of the cars crashing together during hard braking. I slipped back into bed and the quake hit at 5am. It felt like gentle rolling (like a waterbed when you first get into it) , then semi-violent shaking of my building and noise.

Being Atlanta, I thought it was a train derailment or that a building downtown had been hit. Yeah, I really thought that the Westin Peachtree had been hit by an airplane.

No matter what, it was a unique experience!

Colin