D.C. rattled by area's largest recorded earthquake

Whadda mean 'becoming'?

God has nothing to do w/natural disasters - it's mother nature at work, which I had explained in your other thread in the Off-topic forum and btw, how many threads do you need for the same topic?

 

You have no idea how plate techtonics works do you?

 

WHUT are you babbling about?

That's a new one..........

 

Some of mine are scared of T-storms.

 

Someone actualy said...."The Main Thing is that Obama is safe".

Forget anyone else...

That shows true liberal mentality.....WOW!.....What's more scarry the quake or the liberals.?

 

Just be careful everyone. Regardless whether its the earth quake, or Irene makes landfall, get to safety if its called for.

 

yes google soft soil on the west coast as opposed to hard soil on the east coast..

quakes make the soft soil because of many movements in the ground

 

So doesn't that mean that the East Coast is going to get soft also?

Look at the plate movements. That should answer any question you may have about this.

 

Yah...Rite professor.

More and more signs are showing around the world....How about the end is near....and admit it and accept it.

Google this.

 

My TV has sound only, no picture. I wonder if something happened to the cable or sumthin'??

 

Yeah, I read it and forced myself not to reply to LiberalMinority's psychobabble..........

To answer your question, libs are more dangerous and scarier than quakes or any other natural disaster........

 

It sounds about right though. I heard something similar about TN. Of course I am no expert.

 

Its possible. Do you have a weather alert radio, just in case?

 

Earthquakes have been occuring for thousands of years.

 

Hope everyone is okay. Stay safe people.

 

Mmmm, not really... your San Andreas is still quite a lot larger, and longer, too. But, the fault you refer to, the New Madrid Fault, did produce the largest earthquakes in North America in the last three hundred years (at least).

This quake in Northern Virginia was ranked by the USGS as ML5.8, making it unusually strong for that area, and it was only 6 km deep (3.7 miles), which is very shallow. Interestingly, here in Colorado, we had a ML5.3 quake during about the same time, way down south near a town called Trinidad. Quakes are not unknown here, but that was a bit strong.

Anyway, now the USGS is warning it could be a precursor to more quakes there in the Virginia vicinity: http://img.ibtimes.com/www/site/article/202683.htm

Too bad that President Goofball wasn't home... he needs for somebody to shake him up...!

 

It was upgraded to a 5.9, then downgraded to a 5.8 again... though the news keeps saying 6.

I live about 20mi from the epicenter, and this was my first quake. Very strange animal. It had a rhythm, which I was not expecting. I thought an osprey Had dropped very quickly right over the house. The closest thing I can equate it to was that the house felt like a washing machine with an unbalanced load. It was not violent exactly... tore up some masonry... fish tank lost some water... but nothing fell down though there was a lot of glass tinking from the kitchen.

I am just hoping the USGS is wrong about it being a foreshock.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/202...y-nyc-toronto-charlottesville-louisa-coun.org

It should also be mentioned that Louisa (county it centered in) has a nuclear plant that immediately went off line and is running on diesel, though no problems are reported.

 

in wake of this disaster americans should not forget republicans block funding to the government geographical agency which tracks and learns about these natural occurences...

if republicans continue to bar taxpayer funding to these important government agencies there will be no warning for the big one.

 

I'm pretty sure soil as little to do with it.

 

Turing a earth quake into a partisan cluster(*)(*)(*)(*). Good job, I'm sure you're proud of yourself.

 

So solly... not twue.

Republicans want them to focus on Geology, and not the AGW mythos which ballooned their funding. Rocks, not atmosphere.

 

US Earthquakes in the past seven days.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/

 

Not even the foremost seismologists, like Dr. Brian Atwater, or Dr. Lucy Jones, can forecast "the big one" (which "big one", by the way...?). The Father of Paleoseismology, Dr. Kerry Sieh would probably decline to attempt it, either, and he probably knows at least as much about seismology as anyone living today.

On the basis of accomplishments, maybe the Chinese are better at it than anyone else, because of their spectacular success in predicting a huge earthquake at Haicheng/Liaoning hours before it struck, saving many thousands of lives. But (there's always a "but"...) an even more powerful earthquake went completely unpredicted by Chinese seismologists at Tangshan about a year later, which resulted in casualties so high that they were only loosely estimated at somewhere from 100,000 to near a million....

Point is, like so many hyperlib Democrat make-work projects, we could fund some big earthquake-prediction bureaucracy, but, like so many hyperlib Democrat make-work projects, it would just end up being a big waste of money... and in spite of the fairyland atmosphere that permeates Comrade Obama's socialist America, we ain't got any money to waste!

 

WORLDWIDE EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY IN REAL TIME

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/

 

Yes... are you contending that carbon emissions cause earthquakes now?

http://www.aip.org/fyi/2011/038.html