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[razor1uk]

I hope a wish all best wishes of recovery and minimal loss.
  Aparantly above lvl 5 quake, Washington evacuated..
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/23/quake-hits-near-washington-d-c/

[Phas3e]

5.9 shiiiit Christchurch gets 3 of those a week

I hope theres as little damage as possible though

[Kazegami]

Some chopper camera on the news kept zooming out and back in on the same building for over 10 minutes...

[razor1uk]

isn't Yellowstone connected to a fault line radiating from the one? apparantly it was very widely felt, even in Canada. A mummur of plates realigning in pattern following axis shift and molten resonances from other recent geological events perhaps?

[Birddog36]

I live about an hour north of epicenter and it shook for about 30 seconds.  Only damage was some bricks falling on a car no one hurt so far.  Definetly done with the ground shaking under my feet lol.  Strongest on record since late 1800's.

[RedrumSalad]

im in western new york and I felt that, shaking only for about 10 seconds here tho.

[Kazegami]

Could feel it all the way in Toronto, apparently.

[Joberg]

Thankfully it seems there was little damage.

[Alexander48]

isn't Yellowstone connected to a fault line radiating from the one? apparantly it was very widely felt, even in Canada. A mummur of plates realigning in pattern following axis shift and molten resonances from other recent geological events perhaps?

No Sir. The Yellowstone Volcanic system is a hot spot and the quake that hit Virginia is probably a buried vertical fault just like the ones in the New Madrid Missouri system. I can assure you that Yellowstone hot spot and the Virginia quakes are completely unconnected and unrelated to each other. Geological plates of our Earth are on the move yes, but not necessarily realigning in any way in some sort of "end-of-days" scenario.

As far an axis shift is concerned, this too is unlikely. One reason why the Earth is stable at about 23.5 degrees on its axis is because of the strong tidal force exerted on us by our Moon. The Earth and Moon are tidally bound together and the Moon has a great stabilizing effect on the Earths axis. If our Earth had no Moon, then eventually yes the Earth would wobble and flop over on its side. But even that would take tens of thousands of years if not longer to play out.   

[Spinnetti]

Wasn't big on a grand scheme of things... We felt it in Cincinnati Ohio, hundreds of miles away.... building shook gently for 10 seconds or so.

[SAS~Friction]

Well, on the east coast of the US, a 6.0 earhtquake could be really bad news, as almost no buildings are retrofitted to deal with earthquakes here. Whereas, in California, a 6.0 is not a big deal at all, because the buildings are built with earthquakes in mind.

Earthquakes in the western US are usually localized, not felt more than a few hundred miles away, because of the crust structure of the Earth is alot more dense (lots of mountains), and the fault lines are not all connected. However, in the East, alot of the fault lines are connected and run along the Atlantic shelf plate, so when there is an earthquake, the seismic waves travel further.

Where I live in Pennsylvania, I'm about a mile from the most active fault line in the state, and we usually get small tremors (3-4 richter scale) that sound and feel more like dynamite going off underground, usually every few weeks. This one was different though, it wasn't a loud and sudden bang, it was a drawn out rumble that shook for 15-20 seconds.

Regards
Friction

[Wildchild]

i live in florida ad got it for about 3 or 5 seconds. sure woke me up in class