holy shit that was an earthquake

damn

useful

wtf???????????

DC area, as far south as Raleigh according to twitter search maybe?

wow

wow

uh

felt it here in lower Manhattan

Me too, in Brooklyn.

JUST now updated on the earthquake.usgs.gov site, 5.8 in Virginia.

that was as intense as anything i remember feeling in ca

wtf

just felt it in bklyn too jeez

my co-workers all felt this but somehow i missed it???

@AP: Pentagon being evacuated after possible earthquake felt in Washington area.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/at00lqe6x3.php

oh hi

my building was swaying here in boston

And my office in Ashburn, Va. was shaking.

Columbia heights DC. Ppl this is serious they evac'd the Target.

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2011/08/23/quake-hits-virginia-shakes-manhattan/

Mandatory market response time:

Treasurys are up a little bit, with the 10-year yielding 2.09%. That could also be due to a strong 2-year Treasury note, but the talk is that it’s at least partly because of the quake.

The stock market dipped just a teensy bit, but the Dow’s still up 175 points. The quake apparently shaved a little bit off the market.

They’ve evacuated the Pentagon and the Capitol Building in DC, so it is kind of a big deal.

aaaahhh!!!

my neighbor wasn't playing brostep?

USGS has reassessed as a 5.9

Was getting manicure on ground floor of midtown building. Felt a mild swaying, like someone had leaned against my chair or something?? Didn't realize what it was until I walked outside and heard people talking about it, evacuating their buildings as an excuse to stand outside in the sunshine.

yeah I got it here in NC. weird. first one I've been thru I think

my co-workers all felt this but somehow i missed it???

same here

Sort of jeal of people who had things rattling and shaking! To me it was more like a subway went by underneath, the usual kind of rumble.

apparently the higher in the building you were the more you felt it.

no rum-bumblin' up in Mzaine yo

Well damn. I'd normally be on the 16th floor, maybe it was more dramatic up here!

Felt this about 150 miles north of NYC, yep. A little scary.

nada in the boston suburbs

my office building a bit outside of boston was wiggling and jiggling

our super was in the basement and didn't know what was up.
just spoke with someone on the 34th floor of a neighboring building who said stuff was falling off shelves.

felt this all the way up here in montreal

i was in bed on the third floor, so pretty ideal to feel it

it was a little worrisome -- the house was creaking pretty dramatically

it was probably about the same as a 5.1 (but rather closer) one i felt years ago

https://twitter.com/#!/hotdogsladies/status/106066130577272834

of course I am in the basement so there aint no shaken anyway

what the fuck

OMG

I thought I was either about to pass out or puke from low blood sugar or something and tried to steady myself on my desk when I looked over and saw everyone around me doing the same.

That was the weirdest sensation.

Fuck.

They evacuated our building but we didn't get sent home. Dammit.

felt this all the way up here in montreal

― peter in montreal, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 6:16 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

what the fuck

man I was lying in bed on the 2nd floor, felt the bed move like there was an alligator under it. wasn't til the ceiling light + fan start to move that I thought something was up.

the water in the turtle tank kept on swaying for like 10 minutes after the quake stopped fyi.

WHAT THE FUCK!

RT @TomFornelli: WOLF BLITZER IS ON THE PHONE WITH THE EARTHQUAKE.

ok so i felt nothing, what gives

This is so weird. It was REALLY obvious in my office building the whole building was shaking and everyone noticed it. At my co-worker's husbands work about a mile away nobody felt it. Woah.

Maybe it just depends on how close you are to the actual fault line? I mean maybe it runs right under my office building? Or it might have to do with how the buildings are made?

I was in my hammock and it felt p nice actually

i'd imagine the kind of rock you're sitting on probably makes a difference

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/us/24quake.html

Elmo, you might be on an area of softer ground. My wife was looking at some geologist's quote about the east coast having a lot of nice brittle ground that transmits waves really well.

Wow, apparently it was 5,9. Quite a big one. I have experienced a few (in Japan). It's weird huh? Last time I thought my husband was shaking the couch. lolol.

@hodgman: This guy in the cafe and I agree that we liked the earthquake when it first started. But now it's like, the wrong people are into it.

It also depends on the type of building you're in.

has gilbert gottfried weighed in?

btw the talking head on tv came this close as to talking about how the earthquake reminded him of 9/11 that I just wanted to be like "quake this" *throws rock at tv*

lol i just thought my car was finally dying.

It's p obv that this is abnormal for Boston because everyone here seems to have had the same thought that they were about to get sick or pass out.

that was wild

I ran out of the house and all my neighbors were out on the street too saying wtf

dishes fell down in the kitchen, bookcases shaking

i didn't feel a damn thing...or i was completely oblivious to it.

highlight of evacuation: the reassuring voice of Michael Bloomberg whinnying from a car radio

bingo, i didn't feel it here in the suburbs of boston either

or my anti-depressants just flatten my affect too much.

felt the bed move like there was an alligator under it

the last earthquake my mum was in, her attempt to describe what it felt and sounded like = "like a cow had tried to jump into the dining room"

I did not notice this at all, but I am working from home today rather than the office

my wife felt it 8 miles from me.

ho wmordant!

As an expat Californian, I've never felt so at home. It's even earthquake weather outside!

(I hope everything's OK and nobody died. But 5.8s are perfect-sized earthquakes, imo)

my son & were walking down the street and didn't feel a thing - insulated by the pizza we just polished off? but 50 blocks south my wife said her office building shook

our building was evacuated here in downtown DC

top conversation topic among evacuees outside: holy shit that was an earthquake

lot of ilx readers

#2 topic: holy shit look at that helicopter flying around and around the washington monument, they must be looking for structural damage or something, whoa think about those people at the top when it happened, holy shit that was an earthquake

i'd just like to add that holy shit that was an earthquake

Z S is it a zoo downtown? Worth getting on the metro to mill around and talk about how holy shit that was an earthquake?

I was in the library and we were like "huh, how about that!" and then we made fun of it and stayed in the library. Until we got evacuated for some reason.

felt this all the way out in toledo ohio

people in the red light district of new york just thought "holy shit that was a bootyquake"

of course my wife just got released from the psych ward and i was convinced she was full of shit. nice huh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1691LjYCEk

Z S is it a zoo downtown? Worth getting on the metro to mill around and talk about how holy shit that was an earthquake?

it was definitely a zoo about 15 minutes ago. we just were cleared to reenter the building, but it still looks pretty crazy out there. the traffic looks like a fucking debacle. i was actually wondering if the metro was even up right now?

the WMATA website says "on time" for most of the lines, but also nothing about an earthquake

We felt it here in NJ. An old brick building is probably not the ideal place to be, but it didn't last long enough for me to decide to flee.

oh, i haven't mentioned yet: I WAS ON THE TOILET WHEN THIS HAPPENED

hahaha

browsing ILX, of courseTMI

another dude was in the stall next to me, and we both poked our heads out, said "holy shit that was an earthquake", and then both washed our hands with soap

Yeah I was trying to remember what part of the house you were supposed to go to during an earthquake but didn't make up my mind in time. Then my gf who is from California told me the answer is "outside" so I felt kind of silly.

hahahahaha

wait x-post

xps glad you didn't lose your head and forget proper hygiene

I thought you were supposed to go under a doorway.

i walked into my office and a coworker was on the phone telling someone that he was just on the toilet and thought he felt an earthquake and I was like "dude, TMI..."

i remember from some video in grade school that you're supposed to go under a doorframe, if you can't get out of the house?

Outside > Sturdy table > doorframe or some other structurally sound piece of the building.

there was like a 10-15 second pre-earthquake before the biggest part hit, and from the sounds of the flushing and minor shaking on the floors above and below me, i thought there was a major plumbing problem. my thoughts for the first half of the earthquake were basically "is the water going to shoot up the toilet and into my butt"

the doorframe to a bathroom stall prob doesn't count tbh

I thought about the doorframe, but then I also had "bathroom" in my head which is for tornados and there's a window in my bathroom so I was worried that negated the bathroom powers and by then the earthquake was over and I was posting to ilx

I hope you weren't "head out the stall" with your shit "head out the anus"

I got in the pantry fridge like Indiana Jones.

no idea what that means but liking it

THE SAFEST PLACE TO be in an earthquake is another place

Yeah during the pre-earthquake part I was standing up like "Holy crap NO WAY" and then when it got worse I decided "Fuck it, I'm going under a table".

I got in the pantry fridge like Indiana Jones.

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:50 PM (59 seconds ago)

Surprised you saw that one!

Still wishing I hadn't seen it.

largest earthquake on record in VA btw

out of...25 recorded VA earthquakes.

I got in the pantry fridge like Indiana Jones.

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, August 23, 2011 2:50 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

Also like Snooki iirc

we are like the guy who never gets laid telling everyone about how he got laid

I didn't feel it in Pgh, my office is half into the hillside. My husband felt it, though, apartment is on the 8th floor of our building, he said the cd he was listening to skipped.

all the dudes listening to Oval didn't even notice

take it to TMI (like I do)

xxp

10th floor, huge wedding cake building in chelsea manhattan-- shaking was pretty strong. Thought I was having some weird cardiac event. Once we were all outside heading for the park, one of the building management dudes goes:

"Don't worry, it was the whole East Coast, not just this building. It was just a 9.5, it's safe to go back inside"

LOL

markos Markos Moulitsas
RT @TPCarney: Krugman says it wasn't big enough.

friend just posted a picture of missing spires from the National Cathedral.

they are retractable in earthquakes

hahahaha

okay, so our office manager just told me to expect another earthquake at 3.45
confirm/deny

Waht?

Is your office manager Nostradamus?

http://blessendaniel.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/prophet.jpg
forks' office manager

I imagine the survivors website in that cancelled TV show Flash Forward was a bit like this thread.

that prophet is 400 feet tall

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-08-23/Earthquake-rocks-East-Coast/50107542/1

"there's daylight, what do i do??"

assuming the office manager's referring to an aftershock?

lol @ east coasters

hey, we get a hurricane next weekend

office manager says "a friend told him" lol

so i was at the airport just after the first earthquake, and this guy in full muslim dress was walking in front of me & dropped his wallet,

probably also worth checking out all biblical verse under 3:45

I heard Google is behind the earthquake

a muslim crossdresser at the airport says the bible told him to google aftershocks.. weird tuesday

i misheard an msnbc field reporter say "office workers left out of their buildings" as leapt a few minutes ago, no idea what "out of" was doing in that sentence but i'm pretty certain she wasn't saying ppl were jumping from office windows

not that it would really surprise me but still

everyone wants their own 9/11

we were already all set for 9/11s, nobody knows the Pentagon is in Arlington VA and not DC anyway

mostly this earthquake situation seems to have cheered people up

right-wing and conspiracy type media is going nuts about the washington monument tilting

saying what?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/aug/23/picket-fnc-reports-washington-monument-may-be-tilt/

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2767949/posts

first funny image post from the free republic?

That’s something else that 0bama inherited from Bush, an upright Washington Memorial.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread744055/pg

everyone buy gold quick!

where does a conspiracy theory come into with the monument tilting?

were there small bomb blasts coming from the lower sections of the monument or something

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/08/24/us/24quake_cnd/24quake_cnd-articleLarge.jpg

awesome nyt image

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread744055/pg

― goole, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 3:36 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

omg

patiently waiting for capn lorax to give his 2c

aaaaand they're sending us all home for the day. "all Headquarters federal facilities are closed, effective immediately"

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/08/24/us/24quake_cnd/24quake_cnd-articleLarge.jpg

awesome nyt image

― (using no way as way) (schlump), Tuesday, August 23, 2011 3:37 PM (34 seconds ago)

lol yeah that's the pic i tried posting before re: 'daylight, what do i do?'

DC: shuts down for snow, earthquakes, and large portions of August.

aaaaand they're sending us all home for the day. "all Headquarters federal facilities are closed, effective immediately"

― Z S, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 3:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

what an awesome day!

my mom was 30 miles east of the epicenter... relatively mellow so I think the effects must have been confined to the fault line.

We just had a 5.9 earthquake, centered about 30 miles east of here, supposedly felt from Charlotte NC to Quebec. I'm at work, and we evacuated the building, then had to wait (even after being told it was safe to go back) until the fire dept came to shut off the alarm, because it is so piercingly loud that you can't function when it is sounding.

The only other earthquake I've been in was during the 2003-2005 time I was in an **** office in a different building while they were building the addition to our building, and that was like a huge sonic boom, no shaking. This one was a rising and then gradually falling noise and vibration over about 35 seconds. There have been guys working in the building today using a jackhammer drill to put in electrical conduit, and everyone's first reaction was, "What are those guys doing!"

So far, no reports of any damage - the photos on top of the credenza above my desk didn't even fall over, something they regularly do when I bump my desk (and not even very hard, at that).

"everyone - hands on the face immediately!!"

your mom is so cute!

http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.3116178.1314125831!/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.JPG

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread744055/pg

― goole, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 3:36 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

omg

― karen d. foreskin (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 20:37 (4 m

OMG THE HORIZON IS TILTING AS WELL

made u a playlist

aaaaand they're sending us all home for the day. "all Headquarters federal facilities are closed, effective immediately"

― Z S, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 3:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

what an awesome day!

that's what i thought too, until i thought about what it'll be like outside. that picture latham green just posted is literally outside of my office (i'm on 13th st and pennsylvania)

i may try to run across those people, bouncing from head to head

Like in Crocodile Dundee!!

as i pass the do not walk sign i will give it a high five on my way to swinging across the low hanging tree branch like tarzan

sort of

http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/20110823/d0802e_phil.jpg

"Look - its all of ILE in their buildings! wobbling!! One guy is taking a shit!"

A know-it-all coworker is running from office to office giving us all the news about AN EARTHQUAKE DID YOU HEAR??? Hello I have the Internet on my phone. What do you think I do in here all day?

I'm still annoyed that all the news outlets omit Delaware from the list of affected states. It exists, dammit!

delaware...dela

where is that again??

"Just before 2 p.m. today, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck in the Virginia-Washington, DC, area. Aftershocks were felt along the east coast, including Portland."
thanks Boss but I KNOW - I HAVE ILE

what a jerk!

office manager was wrong btw.

DVds and cds fell off a shelf here in Arlington, Virginia and I could feel a rumble. Then the feds later sent me home from my government job

Getting kinda disappointed there haven't been any significant aftershocks. USGS site says there's been a couple of two-pointers DAMMIT I WANT MORE

I am gonna go get my car out of an underground parking garage now so maybe the big aftershock is waiting. If I do not come back, know that I have died Final Destination-style, you guys. STOKED

Hello I have the Internet on my phone. What do you think I do in here all day?

lol

sometimes when I am in the parking garage I wonder what if it all collapsed - all the floor s falling on each other - would there be room for me to crawl around and say "what the shit is this!"

lol

latham green killing it

Like George costanza I better end on a high note - good night ILE !!!

good night bb

good thread u guys, good thread

*applauds wildly*

http://i.imgur.com/PaZnv.gif

sometimes when I am in the parking garage I wonder what if it all collapsed - all the floor s falling on each other - would there be room for me to crawl around and say "what the shit is this!"

Used to think about this all the time when I slept in a loft bed in my college dorm, because my nose was about 10" from the ceiling at that point and I was pretty sure I was doomed in the event of building collapse.

lol

http://terrencebrewer.com/images/press-images/wild-applause.gif

maybe it's just me, but bunkbeds always freaked me out as a kid

sometimes when I am in the parking garage I wonder what if it all collapsed - all the floor s falling on each other - would there be room for me to crawl around and say "what the shit is this!"

so as i waited for 15 min in line to get out of my parking garage, i thought about this. a lot. not fun!

having just descended the stairs down a floor and noticing bits of plaster that had crumbled and fallen to the ground.

at both my office metro stop and my home metro stop there are portions of fallen-in ceiling

I am really stoked that nobody died and nothing seems to have been badly damaged. It makes it much easier to be all WHEEEEE Earthquake!

I am kind of mad my entire University decided to shut down until further notice. Basically it turns out this is the "Oh God shut everything down we don't know what to do" equivalent of it snowing in Los Angeles. (Or snowing in DC)

at this point i am now at home trying to catch up on the work i didn't get done and i just can't focus and it sucks.

^

A friend of mine who is on Orthopedics says she has treated two people today who injured themselves jumping out of windows during the earthquake.

wtf

~ppl~

They must have been on marijuana

Well that was super fun. I was in the locker room at the gym changing into my workout clothes. Super hot chick next to me says "should we run out?" I'm like "GET OUT! This building is very poorly constructed. You run (she was scantily clad) and I'll catch up in a minute."

Casually put on my gym pants and shoes and got my car key, knowing she's gonna get saved first if a real disaster happens, and if not the guys can thank me later for the show :).

The guys were grateful.

cool story bro

:/

From my mom (IN DELAWARE): "I am hopeful that I never experience anything like that again. I suddenly realize that I have taken the stability of the earth for granted."

When I got home to Annapolis after 4 hours of walking around dc, waiting for a commuter bus, then actually being on a bus, I got an email from the interim head of our department stating that everybody who left early would have to use Personal Leave to account for our absence on our timesheets.

I don't have much of a problem with this, except she wasn't in the designated meeting area for at least half an hour after the quake. We did a fire drill a couple months ago so I know she knows where it is. Also, the woman in charge of disaster coordination for the office toddled off with a friend for lunch after waiting outside with us for about 10 minutes.

It sounds like a perfect earthquake for those who would appreciate such events - strong enough to feel unsettling, and offer a break from the mundane day, but not enough to hurt people...except this who autodefenestrated for some reason.

yeah I mean I'm still shook up but it did sorta cheer me up

I was sort of feeling like "it's a beautiful day and we had an earthquake, the world is united in brotherhood and nothing will ever go wrong again!"

then I decided to read like a m3tafilt3r thread about unemployment and got bummed out again

Now if the hurricane would just make landfall anticlimactically, the week would be perfect.

It sounds like a perfect earthquake for those who would appreciate such events - strong enough to feel unsettling, and offer a break from the mundane day, but not enough to hurt people...except this who autodefenestrated for some reason.

Yeah, basically my attitude (after the initial shock of earthquakes as a wee child growing up in California) is that earthquakes are fun and awesome unless someone dies. Then they're sad. Nobody seems to have died, so basically we got a fun ride, and the expat Californians got to feel a lil superior cause we knew what to do, and everyone learned of the hilarious tendency of news to be like "We're gonna stay with this story for hours: to repeat, the earth moved. We do not know if it will happen again." I was always happy to see Dr. Lucy Jones from CalTech on my TV back in the day.

I got kind of annoyed that everything got shut down, though. I had stuff I wanted to do at school today! Rrrgh

Also this happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wif4DVqbykE

Haha.

I used to be jealous of my brother b/c he lived in LA in grade school and he got to experience earthquakes, which my dad said were special treats for him.

I get Jenny's mom hating it. I mean, people (except people who live places like LA or Mexico City) really do count on the ground to hold still, sort of by virtue the ground.

From Mt. Airy, NC (aka Mayberry): Did anyone else feel the aftershock around 8 o'clock this evening? Just looked at the usgs maps and it shows a 4.2 hit around that time. I felt the house shake...eeeeeeeeeek!!!

Didn't notice the aftershock here in Arlington. 4.2 vs 5.8 is almost 2 orders of magnitude different on a logarithmic scale though, right? So 5.8 is something like 50 times stronger than 4.2?

oh, i haven't mentioned yet: I WAS ON THE TOILET WHEN THIS HAPPENED

― Z S, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 2:45 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

i had literally JUST started peeing when it started and i had to cut it off short to close the stall door and figure out what just happened

but luckily i got to go home from my double shift early bc the order i had to take got canceled after the quake, awesome fun

Tremors reportedly noticeable here in Toronto, making it the 3rd quake felt here in less than a year, and I've been oblivious to all three. (Was watching CNN's Libya coverage.)

autodefenestrated

kudos

Stunning photos...

I kid because I love.

I saw that brick debris in Alexandria. The chimney almost fell off as well. The fire department had roped off the block.

lol @ east coasters

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/us/24calif.html

*eye roll*

haha, we just got one too. not to be one-upped!

It was pretty small. I thought a guy ran up my back stairs.

3.6 on the scale

Yesterday's felt like there were several horses on the floor above our office. I noticed two when I lived in San Diego. The first one felt like a truck crashing into our house. The second, which woke me up in the middle of the night, I thought was a burglar so I crept downstairs with a baseball bat to fend him off.

yeserday was a nice Californians = dicks reminder

hey Californians, suck mine

how do you suck a californian

hm.

start early to avoid the evening rush

The UGH list:

Californians being dicks about 5.8 earthquakes in places that never get them. As if the reaction is about the earthquake itself and not the fact that it is ridiculously novel.

Deep Southerners being dicks about Northern heat waves. Yes, you live in the steaming armpit of our nation. Good job.

Cascading dickishness from north to south re the more southerly people's reactions of alarm and paralysis at snowfall and cold that is routine to the more northerly ones. Surprise, surprise: places that don't get much snow are less prepared to manage larger amounts of snow. Superiority of humanity increases as latitude decreases.

I like the descriptions of what the quake felt like to people: an alligator under the bed, a cow falling, horses falling, truck crashing. A FB friend said she thought that her cats were fighting under her bed, which.... she must have some pretty big cats.

How the hell did that NY Times story get published?

I'll trade lack of earthquakes for lack of beach boys

I like the descriptions of what the quake felt like to people: an alligator under the bed, a cow falling, horses falling, truck crashing. A FB friend said she thought that her cats were fighting under her bed, which.... she must have some pretty big cats.

My mom thought she was having a dizzy spell and my grandmother was just confused about why the couch was shaking (and why the dog was freaking out).

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FLYC-hwm-L4/default.jpg

I have no idea if this link will work - annoying man gets earthquaked

well, close enough I guess

Probably much more interesting with the animation.

"please do not remind me of my faulyres- I have not forgotten them"

lol

earthquake in per

peru

6.8 a few hundred miles north of lima

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/24/6-8-magnitude-quake-strikes-northern-peru/?hpt=hp_t2

what the shit!

yeserday was a nice Californians = dicks reminder

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, August 24, 2011 11:20 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

haaaa

it's OK, we're dicks too.

country full of dicks

Chicago is totally laid back, just sitting here watching the dicks fly back and forth between NY and LA.

i love seeing chicago try to pipe up in a NY-CA beef

lol

http://workwithdavidwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/fight-club.jpg
http://www.thatcutesite.com/uploads/2010/09/tiny_cat_is_huge.jpg

Chicago is known for its stockyards, so really any NY or CA beef isn't going to have a chance if we're involved.

real talk

Was Jared Leto in Fight Club??

yes

not carl sandburg mythopoesie nor daley fils and his bike lanes and chrome bean will get you into the big leagues, sorry!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wl_uQOABxg

holy shit that was a dickquake

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e-esyK9fk2I/TDS-ocfIR4I/AAAAAAAAB70/nSSW7kK-83I/s1600/DickMove%5B1%5D.jpg

re: the Californians = dicks thing....i get it in some way, because it is rather novel on the east coast (i grew up in philly), but let's be honest— it wasn't that big a quake, and the amount of insanely shrill news coverage about it made me want to shoot all televisions and radios. also, some other major things happened in the news yesterday (LIBYA? HELLOOO) and all any news outlet could talk about was this teensy fucking earthquake that is a mere blip on peoples consciousnesses if they live on the west coast.

in short: i get why people were so excited and/or freaked out, but it didn't merit the amount of excitement/freakedoutness that it got. that is all.

(and btw, i was en route to baltimore, didn't feel a fucking thing. i never have felt one in my entire time in california, and we've had a few of this magnitude).

your mistake was watching the news

yeah, the news coverage was absurd, but now everyone can go back to really vital stuff like OMG BACHMANN & PERRY

also, a friend who lives in a rickety old house in the Catskills says it shook like a motherfucker! That's a big deal if you've never experienced it before.

yeserday was a nice Californians = dicks reminder

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, August 24, 2011 11:20 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

saw this sentiment pop up on my news feed a few times yesterday, hah

well, come autumn/winter you can laugh at us again for shutting down completely when it rains for like an hour

dickquake in the blogosphere!

The news is going to be shrill about BS and people are going to be focused on spectacles of immediate interest to them and disregard matters of less gravity. It's not an excuse and it's not good, but then again, were the dickish Californians in question saying "How can these East-Coasters carry on about a trivial quake when big shit's going down in Libya and Syria!"?

Or were they saying "LOL our toddlers can apply eye shadow standing on their heads during a friggin' 5.8!"?

Which one is it?

mostly stuff like the latter ime

Often prefaced by "Pfft."

they wil lll pay when we cane them glutes

Often prefaced by "Pfft."

Haha! You will hate this forever, won't you?

Hahaha. I don't even associate it directly with you anymore, but you really left some wounds that will never heal. Apparently.

yeah, definitely the latter

wounds won't heal and nor will wisdom tooth holes

Dry sockets in my heart.

Californians being dicks about 5.8 earthquakes in places that never get them.

god for real, but it's not just the novelty, it's the fact that people can live in not-california their entire lives (wtf, crazy i know) and then an earthquake happens. a lot of those people are going to spend the duration of the quake honestly scared for their lives and seriously freaked out afterwards.

when i was getting home from work yesterday about an hour afterwards, there was an older lady wandering aimlessly down the street with a blank look in her eyes, and she had her hands on her neck/cheeks area like she was holding herself. she told me "earthquake! they said 5.8!" and that she was too scared to go back into her house. i leave my house an hour later, and i see her AGAIN, walking down the same road in the same exact position.

today i talked to another older lady at a reception desk, i asked her how her day was going and she said she was feeling awful because she didn't get any sleep last night; she was up all night thinking about the earthquake. she was at least in her 70s and she had never experienced one before.

it's easy to be terrified bc even if it's obviously an earthquake, they're so unexpected here that your first eight thoughts might be about things that are a lot worse than earthquakes, like maybe aliens are lifting the building from the ground, or the USSR just dropped a bomb somewhere 30 miles away, or there's a giant shaking the building

so stop being a dick, california

i never have felt one in my entire time in california, and we've had a few of this magnitude.

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does this say something about a 5.8 or about your distance from the epicenter & ability to be aware of the world around you so to speak

in true tragedy news, i tried to get my cat to ride on my dog's back like he was a horse and she was a cowboy and they both just freaked out like idiots

thats pretty awesome

it's easy to be terrified bc even if it's obviously an earthquake, they're so unexpected here that your first eight thoughts might be about things that are a lot worse than earthquakes, like maybe aliens are lifting the building from the ground, or the USSR just dropped a bomb somewhere 30 miles away, or there's a giant shaking the building

Multiple relatives thought Dover AFB was being bombed.

yeah my first thought was "dc doesn't get earthquakes--what just blew up and how fast do i have to run?"

I am a californian and a dick but I don't see anything wrong with east coast people saying lolwtf, if there were a blizzard in LA it would be on the news too

I didn't feel it tho

being confused/scared/excited right after the quake is reasonable... still being rattled hours and hours later, wandering the streets, muttering to yourself after you know what happened is pretty pfft-worthy tho.

I'm currently defecating in my boxer briefs due to this earthquake, a whole day later.

Pfft.

that would be a fart

That is the sound from my boxer briefs.

xp

loling

sound and fury signifying nothing

oh they signify something

Tutti Fruity let a beauty, and everyone went out for air. That's what it signifies.

That's why ppl are still wandering the streets.

Its OK to be a dick

I am what I eat.

Got an email that there was an aftershock of 4 point something around 1am but I don't think it was strong enough to feel here.

who emailed you? the earthquake?

yeah i saw it on twitter but felt nothin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjic66CjjYc&feature=related

Alert DC, lol
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cuties shouldnt have to pick up their broken house

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2011-08/64192997.jpg

Its OK to be a dick

I tell this to my dick all the time.

people tripping about the hurricane now.

i heard a lawnchair blew over loooool

lol

http://i.imgur.com/yMi7Z.jpg

Earthquake did 10/11