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A rare 5.9 earthquake hit in Virginia today. Felt in DC,New York and Philly. Any RO'ers feel it. Everybody allright? http://news.yahoo.com/magnitude-6-0-quake-hits-u-east-coast-180027828.html

5.8 hit Colorado today too.

Either the world is coming to an end or Joey's had too much fiber.

I was at work near Landover MD - got to leave a few hours early, just got back to the casa. Everything is a-ok - hope you all are as well.

A 5.9 is just a fun night out in Cali. Wake me up when you get into the sevens. :interestingstuffronnie

Felt it here in Northern VA.

My two-year-old didn't even wake up from her nap :)

My guitars didn't budge from their stands, so all is well in Throwy's world.

2 out of the ordinary earthquakes, droughts, famines, war, and a storm heading towards US shores... Stones tour 2012 may not happen due to end of the fucking world... good job Mayans... you couldn't have added one more year, you bastards!

I felt it in Toronto, the whole room was moving & my dog's water in his dish was swaying! & I live on the 14th floor.

All fine here in this part of Virginny!...........It was a strange feeling having the earth move under our feet, But all in all it was a very nice day. As nice a day as we have had in sometime. Next............Hurricane!

Keith Moon would have been 65 today. He was treating the US as one big hotel room and just reminding everyone that he's still capable of a making the earth move.

do you think people in California and Japan are laughing at east coasters right now, and making a bigger mess than the earthquake did as they spill their drinks and fall down bent over from laughter?

Glad all youse east coasters are safe. . .now for something completely different. . . .

Pres Obama comments on the 5.8 earthquake in DC: Obama wanted it to be 2.9, but the Republicans wanted 5.8, so he compromised

Wish I made this one up, but I must give Nelly the credit. Via Nellcote on FB

Breaking News:
Obama interrupts his Martha's Vineyard golfing to announce that the Washington DC earthquake occurred on an obscure fault line that runs under the White House and is known as "Bush's Fault".

LOL!!!

Riffy

Hipsters in Brooklyn soooo felt that quake weeks ago!

Riffhard wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 8:01pm:

Well played Riffy/ Nelly, well played! LOL

Riffhard wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 8:01pm:

Pdog wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 7:33pm:

do you think people in California and Japan are laughing at east coasters right now, and making a bigger mess than the earthquake did as they spill their drinks and fall down bent over from laughter?

Yes.Wake me up when a bridge and a freeway collapse..and when your on a freeway that eventually is torn down.

i'd have to check with riffy, but i think the whole country just moved right a bit.

Starbuck wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 11:14pm:

i'd have to check with riffy, but i think the whole country just moved right a bit.

It's moving somewhere. Just had a small quake in CA..........It really is the end of days. :-/

this is going to hurt the 2012 tour if the world ends!

felt a bit of it here in Atlanta..minor though.....

Pdog wrote on Aug 24^th, 2011 at 7:14am:

this is going to hurt the 2012 tour if the world ends!

I'm selling my stock in the Tarp industry just in case!

Riffhard wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2011 at 8:01pm:

Mick Jagger and the Practice of American Politics
That great British social commentator, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, may not be an expert on American politics, but he sure nailed it when he belted out the words ” You can’t always get what you want, but if you try some time, you just might get what you need.” The now $850 billion(but who’s really counting) bailout/rescue/earmark bill that finally found its way through the Congress and onto the President’s desk is but another example of the political leaders of this country not getting all that they wanted, but settling for what they needed.

By expanding the bill from its original three page plea for quick action to save the credit markets, the bill exploded to 450 pages of tax relief, tax incentives and tax dodges, all in an attempt to allow members of Congress the opportunity to tell the folks back home and particularly the special interests that they haven’t forgotten their constitutents ( i.e. voters) or their campaign contributors. Even in a dire crisis these guys and gals on the Hill can’t stop themselves from turning a simple government-backed corrective measure into old fashioned pork barrel.

Of course the insiders in Congress will say that loading the bill up with tax benefits was the only way to convince all those Republicans and Democrats who voted no to get on the bandwagon and vote yes. But now that the tax cutters and corporate welfare advocates have won the day, it would be nice to hear someone, anyone, talk about the national debt, which by most calculations is around $ 12 trillion. Where are the profiles in courage in Congress offering a plan to save us from the Chinese, the Saudis and all those other countries holding our IOUs?

Since Congress saved capitalism with a healthy dose of socialism, it might want to save future generations by embracing the concept of tax fairness ( or as Joe Biden calls it our patriotic duty ) and work with the same crisis mentality to deal with the fiscal nightmare we are transferring to our children and grandchildren. How about passing a tax bill that for a change made big corporations pay some tax? How about ending the transfer of wealth by ” patriotic millionaries ” to offshore banks? And how about bringing back the progressive income tax, not the Bush boondoggles for the rich?

This is probably asking too much from our Congress now that they are back home taking credit for saving the country. It is the next president who will be faced with the next crisis, foreign debt and growing interest payments on that debt. Trying to convince Americans who have grown up in a political and governing culture where any call for tax increases is rejected out of hand will be the most daunting challenge facing whoever wins the White House. Such talk may make Ronald Reagan turn over in his grave and move us closer to European style soaking the rich tax policies, but as Mick Jagger said, “… but if you try sometime, you just might get what you need.”

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Definitely felt it in Buffalo. Very weird.
TomL and Nanky both felt it; Tom's office shook very hard and it really freaked him out.
All is okay though with those two crazies though.

freaky man.....couldnt figure out what was happening because even after livin on the west coast for a couple of years i just didnt believe it was shakin here. my wife who works on like the 27th floor called me from lunch and said she didnt want to go back after they cleared the building.

Well,woke up. No more earthquakes,the world didn't end. Just one freaky day with earthquakes across the country....Besides the world can't end,their is a good chance of a Springsteen tour next year. :booze :keithpunky :willya

" but i think the whole country just moved right a bit. "

I live about 25 miles from the epicenter....I was working {day care}, and we were at the skating rink--in the pro shop, to be precise. I almost accused one young hooligan of shaking the big glass counter... ;) When I felt the earth move {under my feet, but no sky fallin' down}, and saw the merchandise sway on the walls, I knew what was happenin'.

I've lived in So. Cal. {plenty of earthquakes there}, and So. Ill. {with the New Madrid fault close by}, so earthquakes are not new to me....BUT.....they are always unsettling, as you just have no control of the situation, or warning, at all. This one was the biggest in Va. in over 100 years, and even though small by So. Cal. standards, it was felt in 22 states {and parts of Canada, as we see on this thread}. The entire area is shallow bedrock, and it doesn't "give" as much as other types of ground/earth makeup--thus, the waves spread out...and out...and out.

Not much damage, except for some in D.C.---and some foundations cracking and bricks falling and such. More near the epicenter, but I haven't heard of many injuries {some at Louisa High School, but nothing major}.

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