d8b Forum

I live less than 40 miles from the Epicenter of today's 5.8 quake here in Richmond, Virginia, and I can tell you...it was a very unnerving and disturbing experience. I've never been in an Earthquake before, and after today, I hope I'm never in another one! When yer in the Basment of an 11 story building, and you can feel EVERYTHING moving, that's not a good thing!

Fortunately it seems what was rattled the most was nerves, there are SOME reports of minimal damage, but this thing was felt everywhere on the east coast apparantly. How the poeple in Japan made it through a 9.0 that lasted for 5-6 minutes??? I'll never know....

Fiance informs me everything at home is intact.....including my D8B.....WHEW!!!

We had one of those (6.8R) in 2001. Scary is a good word to describe it. Everything here survived...probably because structures built after 1989 had to conform to stringent earthquake-proof building codes. We are, after all, sitting along a major fault line.

I was in the house when it hit. I watched the walls become temporarily cartoon parallelograms as the damn thing shook the house. Never seen anything like it. Yep....scary.

Then there's the volcanos....

Yeah, at first I thought someone had turned on a peice of heavy machinery in the building I was in, and it felt like a big motor oscillation.....then it quickly got worse, and when I realized I could feel the building moving in the seat of my pants in the chair I was sitting in......well, lets just say "a moment of fear and panic" would be putting it mildly....because once it dawned on me what it was, it also dawned on me I had 11 stories of concrete and steel above me....needless to say, once the whole "Ohmigawd it's a f**king Earthquake!" thought process occured, I was SPRINTING to the exit.....