Earthquake? .. mother earth.. Options

[VoodooLady]

anyone here feel the earthquake today?? i'm 200 miles from the epicenter in Virginia and our office building swayed back and forth for 30 seconds .. it was freaky...

.. and i've got Mother Earth is a vicious crowd stuck in my head today

[OutToDry]

Didn't feel it but 5.8 is being joked at by the good west coast folks. It's all good. Perhaps it's a message for our foolhardy government.

[SJN1279]

Didn't feel it but 5.8 is being joked at by the good west coast folks. It's all good. Perhaps it's a message for our foolhardy government.

Supposedly earthquakes are felt more intensely on the East Coast because the rocks there are older and denser.

What does our government have to do with an earthqake?

This post has been edited by SJN1279: Aug 24 2011, 7:27 am

[tiger]

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This post has been edited by tiger: Aug 24 2011, 9:10 am

[SJN1279]

WTF are you talking about? The earth is older on the east coast? The quake was felt on a wider range because it was a very shallow quake, only a mile from the surface.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/e...s_n_934810.html

Another East versus West contrast: The ground is different in the East in a way that makes the shaking travel much further, allowing people to feel the quake several states and hundreds of miles away.

The rocks in the Earth's crust in the East are colder, older and harder, which means seismic waves travel more efficiently and over greater distances. Rocks on the West Coast are relatively young and broken up by faults.

"An intact bell rings more loudly than a cracked bell and that's essentially what the crust is on the East Coast," USGS seismologist Lucy Jones told a news conference in Pasadena, Calif.

[tiger]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/e...s_n_934810.html

Another East versus West contrast: The ground is different in the East in a way that makes the shaking travel much further, allowing people to feel the quake several states and hundreds of miles away.

The rocks in the Earth's crust in the East are colder, older and harder, which means seismic waves travel more efficiently and over greater distances. Rocks on the West Coast are relatively young and broken up by faults.

"An intact bell rings more loudly than a cracked bell and that's essentially what the crust is on the East Coast," USGS seismologist Lucy Jones told a news conference in Pasadena, Calif.

Ha ha, yeah I saw that after I commented. The shallow depth contributed greatly as well. So you got that one right. Not sure how you missed the "joke" about shaking up the government though.