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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:36 am
by Sava700
A moderate 5.3-magnitude earthquake that rattled southern Colorado early Tuesday morning was the largest to hit the state in more than 40 years, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The quake's epicenter was seven miles southwest of Cokedale, and 180 miles south of Denver. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
A dispatcher at the sheriff's office in Las Animas County, which includes Cokedale, said the quake lasted almost 30 seconds. The office received reports of rocks falling on a highway and of some structure damage.
It was the largest in a series of earthquakes that struck the area. As of 5 a.m. local time (7 a.m. ET), the USGS reported seven quakes centered just south of Cokedale since midnight.
Amy Vaughan of the USGS said the 5.3 magnitude ties that of an earthquake Colorado suffered on August 9, 1967.
In 1973, the USGS originally reported a quake with a magnitude of 5.7, but it turned out that was caused by an explosion, Vaughan said.
The largest recorded quake to hit Colorado had a magnitude of 6.5 on Nov. 7, 1882, near Rocky Mountain National Park, Vaughan said
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/23/colora ... ?hpt=hp_t2
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:53 pm
by Sava700
OMG!!!! I'm in middle of VA and we just had a powerful EARTHQUAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:01 pm
by TonyT
Sava700 wrote:OMG!!!! I'm in middle of VA and we just had a powerful EARTHQUAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man, the whole house shook here in Northern VA. Lasted about a minute.
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:07 pm
by Sava700
Dude..the center was 70miles from me... I couldn't stand up!!! I had to hold on to the damn door jam! all hell is breaking loose here. I still feel like i'm moving back and forth.
NEVER felt anything this powerful here before and you can't tell me this doesn't mean something is going on!!
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:11 pm
by David
5.8 centered in VA..... I felt the building here in Bound Brook NJ shake like crazy for about 10 seconds.
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:15 pm
by Sava700
David wrote:5.8 centered in VA..... I felt the building here in Bound Brook NJ shake like crazy for about 10 seconds.
we don't have quakes like this in VA normally... very very odd! I still can't stand up straight and still feeling effects.
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:23 pm
by RaisinCain
Sava700 wrote:we don't have quakes like this in VA normally... very very odd! I still can't stand up straight and still feeling effects.
Sissy.

Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:32 pm
by Sava700
RaisinCain wrote:Sissy.
found pictures knocked over upstairs... cat stood up and looked around then house started rolling around so he sensed it before it hit.
heard some pipes and stuff around area broken according to scanner.
This gives the schools a wake up call to prepare for them as they may be happening more and more as we get closer to 2012

Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:46 pm
by Sava700
My uncle used to work at the nuke plant where the epicenter was...he is retired but had a friend call from inside and said they shut a few of the reactors down almost instantly.
Seismograph from Virginia Tech of earthquake

Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:47 pm
by David
Sava700 wrote:we don't have quakes like this in VA normally... very very odd! I still can't stand up straight and still feeling effects.
We get an occasion 4-4.5 in NJ, no where near this powerful. We have a pair of broken pipes in the building.
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:53 pm
by JawZ
was pretty intense here in central NJ. I can't imagine what it was like in Japan or Haiti.
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:56 pm
by RaisinCain
Sava700 wrote:found pictures knocked over upstairs... cat stood up and looked around then house started rolling around so he sensed it before it hit.
heard some pipes and stuff around area broken according to scanner.
This gives the schools a wake up call to prepare for them as they may be happening more and more as we get closer to 2012
I didn't feel a damn thing. Priscilla said the whole Lowe's building shook for about 30 seconds.
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:05 pm
by 24giovanni
You Virginia / West Viginia people, I hope all of you are OK?
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:09 pm
by Sava700
24giovanni wrote:You Virginia / West Viginia people, I hope all of you are OK?
hell no i'm not ok!! LOL I still can't walk straight.... it was a real rolling experience to say the least!!
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:26 pm
by 24giovanni
Sava700 wrote:hell no i'm not ok!! LOL I still can't walk straight.... it was a real rolling experience to say the least!!
Now you know how I felt when i was in my early 20's after a night of drinking. LOL
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:36 pm
by Sava700
USGS reports it was only a mile deep under Mineral... I've felt 3 after shocks so far pretty light compared to the big one!!
Bring on the Hurricane now and 2012!!
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:05 pm
by Prey521
My house felt like it got hit by something and then it started to shake. Pretty freaky stuff, even got a little dizzy. lol
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:05 pm
by Sava700
Could be a foreshock for sure, I think japan had two 7.9's before the big one 9.0 hit.
Ohh and look at this study done
Elenin - Earth - Sun Feb 20 2008 Indonesia 7.4
Elenin - Earth - Sun Feb 25 2008 Indonesia 7.2
Elenin - Earth - Neptune May 12 2008 China 7.9
Elenin - Earth - Sun Feb 18 2009 Kermadec Islands 7.0
Elenin - Earth -Jupiter May 18 2009 Los Angeles, US 4.7
Elenin - Mercury- Earth July 15 2009 New Zealand 7.8
Elenin - Mercury - Earth Aug 09 2009 Japan 7.1
Elenin - Sun - Earth Sept 09 2009 Sunola islands 8.1
Elenin - Earth - Venus Feb 18 2010 China/RU/N.Korea 6.9
Elenin - Earth-Sun Feb 25 2010 China 5.2
Elenin - Earth-Sun Feb 26 2010 Japan 7.0
Elenin - Earth- Sun Feb 27 2010 Chile 8.8 [Earth knocked off axis]
Elenin - Earth- Sun Feb 27 2010 Argentina 6.3
Elenin - Earth - Mercury Mar 04 2010 Taiwan 6.3
Elenin - Earth - Mercury Mar 04 2010 Vanuatu 6.5
Elenin - Earth - Mercury Mar 05 2010 Chile 6.6
Elenin - Earth - Mercury Mar 05 2010 Indonesia 6.3
Elenin - Earth - Mercury Mar 08 2010 Turkey 6.1
Elenin - Earth - Neptune May 05 2010 Indonesia 6.6
Elenin - Earth - Neptune May 06 2010 Chile 6.2
Elenin - Earth - Neptune May 09 2010 Indonesia 7.2
Elenin - Earth - Neptune May 14 2010 Algeria 5.2
Elenin - Earth - Jupiter Jan 03 2011 Chile 7.0
Elenin - Earth - Sun March 11 2011 Japan 9.0 [Earth knocked off axis]
Interesting isn't it
http://lanl.arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+e ... /0/all/0/1
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:34 pm
by morbidpete
Felt it hear in RI, Was in an interview, sounded like a bunch of jack hammers on the floor above us shaking every thing. No damage
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:49 pm
by blebs
There seems to be some goings on in the cosmos that we will all soon hear about. Perhaps this is why NASA has posted emergency initatives for their working families. Something is definately up, question is, what?
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:22 pm
by Shinobi
In South Carolina.. the building that I was working in was shaking.. Almost felt like I was in a train.. everyone one was looking at everyone else.. then started to say.. earthquake? So I brought up the USGS page on one of our overhead LCD monitor.. sure enough.. pretty wild.
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 12:00 am
by Sava700
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:47 am
by Unholy
Just got hit with a 3.9 in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:02 am
by TonyT
The main difference between east coast quakes and west coats quakes is that the west coast plates have separations, thus there could be a small quake in Pasadena and not be felt 30 miles away, or feels like a convoy rolling down the street. On the east coast, the plate has no major separations, thus the vibrations of the energy wave travel further and stronger.
Feeling a quake is an odd sensation. One detects the massive amount of energy. But when there's no damage, such as collapsed buildings, the effect is strange. The motion one experiences is so unusual. And the real danger of small quakes like we just experienced is the hysteria generated by people. The phone circuits were jammed for hours, people evacuated buildings and then took the rest of the day off. Traffic backed up early. etc. etc. Remember those grammar school fire drills? That's what it looked like around here, the adults stood outside buildings, chattering about disasters & finding reasons not to continue the day's production, clutching the sensations as an excuse to go home early.
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:04 am
by YeOldeStonecat
lmao at Sava's "Never Forget" pic.
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:21 pm
by Sava700
WTF is going on?!?!?!? I'm going to start stocking supplies..this don't look good!
7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Peru
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck northern Peru on Wednesday, authorities said.
The quake's epicenter was about 350 miles (570 kilometers) northeast of the country's capital, Lima, and 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Pucallpa, Peru, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Authorities at the Geophysics Institute of Peru said no victims or significant damage had been reported. At least one aftershock had been recorded, the institute said.
Lima residents felt a brief, but strong, tremor.
The quake struck around 12:45 p.m. near Peru's border with Brazil at a depth of about 90 miles (145 kilometers).
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/ ... ?hpt=hp_t2
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:32 pm
by Sava700
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=elenin&orb=1
Check out that.... advance it by days and you see the planets are lining up closer and closer .....
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:15 pm
by Dan
Sava700 wrote:WTF is going on?!?!?!? I'm going to start stocking supplies..this don't look good!

are you serious ? are you still tooting about an "end of the world" crap !?!?
this planet was built on earthquakes and has been having them long before humans were here and will continue to have them,like it always has !
hell ! the human race is more in danger of ending from ******** paranoia than any natural planetary occurrence !
you all thought it was gonna end in 2000 ! what happened to that ?

you are too funny sava LOL
thanks for the laugh,I needed that !
I will bring this thread back in a couple years when we are all here doing the same freakin thing we are now ! JUST like we were after the end of the world was supposed to happen in Y2K !
but honestly dude,your ranting makes me picture you as one of those guys on the street corner with a really long beard yelling biblical nonsense at anyone that will listen,
IMO you really are fringing on the whacky and your paranoia is getting the better of you.
I think you should consider therapy and get some professional help.
IMO you are verging on being a lunatic !
I know you will come back with I am attacking you and this is your thread ,stay out of it !
but the thing is that it's actually Philip's thread and take it anyway you want to,I really don't care.
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:28 pm
by Dan
YeOldeStonecat wrote:lmao at Sava's "Never Forget" pic.
LOL yes,here is the correct one

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:58 pm
by cybotron r_9
Sava700 wrote:NEVER felt anything this powerful here before and you can't tell me this doesn't mean something is going on!!
I can and I will, what does it mean?
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:01 pm
by Sava700
dan wrote:

Are you serious ? Are you still tooting about an "end of the world" crap !?!?
This planet was built on earthquakes and has been having them long before humans were here and will continue to have them,like it always has !
Hell ! The human race is more in danger of ending from ******** paranoia than any natural planetary occurrence !
You all thought it was gonna end in 2000 ! What happened to that ?

You are too funny sava lol
thanks for the laugh,i needed that !
i will bring this thread back in a couple years when we are all here doing the same freakin thing we are now ! Just like we were after the end of the world was supposed to happen in y2k !
But honestly dude,your ranting makes me picture you as one of those guys on the street corner with a really long beard yelling biblical nonsense at anyone that will listen,
imo you really are fringing on the whacky and your paranoia is getting the better of you.
I think you should consider therapy and get some professional help.
Imo you are verging on being a lunatic !
I know you will come back with i am attacking you and this is your thread ,stay out of it !
But the thing is that it's actually philip's thread and take it anyway you want to,i really don't care.
LOl you funny...

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:03 am
by Sava700
4.5 Aftershock hit last night around 1 am.. woke everyone in the house!
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:04 am
by JawZ
Dan wrote:

are you serious ? are you still tooting about an "end of the world" crap !?!?
this planet was built on earthquakes and has been having them long before humans were here and will continue to have them,like it always has !
hell ! the human race is more in danger of ending from ******** paranoia than any natural planetary occurrence !
you all thought it was gonna end in 2000 ! what happened to that ?

you are too funny sava LOL
thanks for the laugh,I needed that !
I will bring this thread back in a couple years when we are all here doing the same freakin thing we are now ! JUST like we were after the end of the world was supposed to happen in Y2K !
but honestly dude,your ranting makes me picture you as one of those guys on the street corner with a really long beard yelling biblical nonsense at anyone that will listen,
IMO you really are fringing on the whacky and your paranoia is getting the better of you.
I think you should consider therapy and get some professional help.
IMO you are verging on being a lunatic !
I know you will come back with I am attacking you and this is your thread ,stay out of it !
but the thing is that it's actually Philip's thread and take it anyway you want to,I really don't care.
For not caring, you've spent alot of time on this post. Why was it important enough to comment?
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:21 am
by Dan
JawZ wrote:For not caring, you've spent alot of time on this post. Why was it important enough to comment?
no $hit dude ! that took a lot of energy,now I'm tired and I need to go bbq,
and I knew you would be posting on my reply

, you are very predictable.
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:13 am
by RoundEye
Save yourself ……… the worlds about to end!
I think the ostrich is such a funny looking bird.

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:13 pm
by Sava700
Dan wrote:no $hit dude ! that took a lot of energy,now I'm tired and I need to go bbq,
and I knew you would be posting on my reply

, you are very predictable.
best stock up on BBQ sauce... end of world may be near!!

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:37 pm
by RaisinCain
2012... Galactic alignment... Something is going to happen. Look at the activity of the Sun. I am not saying it is Earth's total devastation but something is stirring.
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:11 pm
by cybotron r_9
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:30 am
by JawZ
Dan wrote:no $hit dude ! that took a lot of energy,now I'm tired and I need to go bbq,
and I knew you would be posting on my reply

, you are very predictable.
LOL. You cared enough to post again?
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:36 am
by Dan
JawZ wrote:LOL. You cared enough to post again?
you don't post much here anymore,
I feel so special that you come here to pay all this attention to just me !