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Showing posts with label Virginia earthquake near Richmond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virginia earthquake near Richmond. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Did the Earthquake Get Your Attention?

I live about two hours form the epicenter of today's Virginia earthquake which occured about thirty miles northwest of Richmond. We didn't even feel it here in Woodstock. But one of my northern Virginia children said it shook their house pretty vigorously.  It's amazing how many people far away felt it. I read a geologist's assessment about the shake being felt in New Jersey. He said, the rock formations between here and there are pretty strong and unbroken so the tremors travel without breaking up. Where there are lots of small faults and the rocks are broken, the tremors are more localized. Sounds reasonable.

How about you? If you live in the east did you feel it where you are?