NFT: 12 years ago today the DC (and NJ) earthquake
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Was on 14th floor of that apartment bldg in Bucceleuch Park across from the stadium. Felt it.. heard plaster falling inside the walls. Seemed substantial.. probably the height increased the effect.
Felt it in my office. My computer screen sort of vibrated and wiggled back and forth. I didn't know what it was, so I was like, "Whoa, need a screen break now." Then I went out in the hall and saw a bunch of freaked out people. TS Irene hit a few days later flooding the crap out of the area and cutting power. The Earthquake was the easy part of the week.
I was in my office building in Newark and really felt it, could feel the bldg swaying. It did not take long for everyone to hit the stairwells and evacuate.
The taller the building, the more you felt it. On my campus, I was in a three story building so I was like, what was that? But people in the nine story outpatient building were totally spooked.
What was the reading on the Richter Scale? The biggest one I've been through was 7.2, with aftershocks for a couple weeks after in the mid 6's. I also slept through one in Japan, but don't know what that registered.
No not at all. I’m not sure what difference that would make. If you are in a tall bldg and you feel it swaying more than you have ever felt on a nice sunny calm day, you get out of there fast.
Nothing like that. I stand ready to be.correced but I only a 4.5 in DC and like a 2 in NJ.
I got home from my bachelor party in South Beach the day before, Monday. Back in the office Tuesday and this probably was around 2pm, because I left my office to go take a nap in the park at lunch. Hah, got back to the office and everyone was all rattled and asked if I felt it. They actually evacuated our building. I was like, haha no I was napping in the park!
Was sitting in a conference room in Summit. I thought somebody was kicking the table and then I saw the lights swaying.
I was sitting on my couch, and I felt something, and could see clothes in my closet swaying.
And I said to myself "hmm".
Was at the shore. Was laying on my side, and then involuntarily got rolled onto my back when it started. Weirdest feeling ever.
I remember most people were like oh wow an earthquake and went back to doing what they were doing but some people grabbed the whole family and booked it out of there lol.
I remember most people were like oh wow an earthquake and went back to doing what they were doing but some people grabbed the whole family and booked it out of there lol.
I was in DC at that moment. The building shook and all that but the worst part was getting out of town. All mass transit was shut down. It was like being in Manhattan if all the trains and tunnels were shut down, and then you remember you are on an island and the only way off of it are bridges and ferries. I had such an early 90s experience in the City (a Noreaster), before 9/11 and Sandy.