[Jomar]

Title changed - be safe everyone.

[Brokenfriend]

Originally Posted by DiMarie

Oh good grief, what else do you need. I hope that you do not lose power. I am still hoping that it goes off to sea and misses land. I have friends going to Disney and they were to drive down the end of the week.

Thank you Di. They are now saying that the middle of the hurricane is going up the coast of Virginia. It looks like I will be on the outer edge of the hurricane,and I probably will just have stormy weather. BF

[Dmom3005]

Sending thoughts that it just keeps moving on. So that maybe it will
pass on right by.

Donna

[Brokenfriend]

At 8:05 PM,I thought that we where going into another earthquake. The floor started to shake,and something sounded like a bounch of things rolling,then It suddenly stoped.

I called my sister,and they had one over there also.

That was a big after shock. My cat ran out of the room. BF

[bizi]

glad to hear you are safe steve!
((((HUGS))))
bizi

Hey, Jacquie, I had a 3-legged Siamese female cat in CA who would howl & beg--tear thru screens even!--to get outside about 20 mins before a quake. The other animals noticed her predictive powers before I did: an Airedale, standard schnauzer, miniature schnauzer, and a Scottie would all line up behind her & raise almighty h€ll till I let everyone out.

She was never wrong.

After she died, the standard schnauzer took over. She called a quake 1ce when I felt none.

Originally Posted by waves

* STUFF *

~ waves ~ , WoW, you say * STUFF * exactly like I do!

[Dmom3005]

I am personally glad my couch hasn't found a quake tonight.



donna

[Brokenfriend]

I felt a second aftershock at 12:44 AM. The first aftershock was at about 8:05 PM. They said it was a 4.2.

Hey. This is interesting to me. There must be a shelf rock along the East Coast that is about a half of a mile down in the earth.

I hope that they do go away though. They may have damaged more things then we know right now. BF

[waves]

Dear Steve

you are handling this really well. 4.2 is a pretty big aftershock.

according to this article, which i found quite informative:

Quake Highlights East Coast Fault Lines
Missouri, Virginia, New York are home to significant seismic zones.
By Will Oremus | Posted Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, at 4:20 PM EDT
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“Earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S., although less frequent than in the western U.S., are typically felt over a much broader region. East of the Rockies, an earthquake can be felt over an area as much as ten times larger than a similar magnitude earthquake on the west coast.”

Easterners curious about their local earthquake risk shouldn’t get too hung up on the precise location of fault lines, yet another USGS explainer points out: “In California, a large earthquake can generally be associated with a particular fault because we have watched the fault break and offset the ground surface during the earthquake. In contrast, east of the Rockies things are less straightforward, because it is rare for earthquakes to break the ground surface. In particular, east of the Rockies, most known faults and fault lines do not appear to have anything to do with modern earthquakes. We don't know why.”

the above article contains several links to more technical information. here are two of them:

San Andreas-like fault found in eastern U.S.

U.S. Fault Lines GRAPHIC: Earthquake Hazard MAP