EARTHQUAKE
#31
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Dillsburg, PA
Posts: 314
Originally Posted by barbo117
Felt strong earth quake in south eastern Pennsylvania. Every one here very nervous as we have an atomic power plant 3 miles away. Tv, dishes and lights all rattled and swayed. Couldn't believe that it was happening. All major cities including Baltimore, 35 miles away, are evacuating high rise buildings due to fear of aftershocks. Hope everyone is ok.
Called my hubby at work about 8 miles away and he said he didn't feel it but others there said they did. Called my son who does landscaping and he said 3 of them were working about 12 miles from me and none of them felt it either. Strange since my friend's daughter works in that area in a high rise office building and said the building was shaking.
#32
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Camarillo, California
Posts: 35,242
Originally Posted by Jamiestitcher62
Felt it in Windsor, CT too. It was cool. My first earthquake. Can we have another, it was kinda fun.
I don't think you will get very many folks out there that want to join you!!!
#33
Originally Posted by Jim's Gem
Originally Posted by Jamiestitcher62
Felt it in Windsor, CT too. It was cool. My first earthquake. Can we have another, it was kinda fun.
I don't think you will get very many folks out there that want to join you!!!
I can remember being in bed asleep when one happened at 2 am - bed moved across the room and back, I sat up thinking ok am I going thru the glass window this time? I was on the second floor.
#35
I'm in Pittsburgh at the moment and was sitting down when it happened. Some people have described it as "rocking and rolling," and that is exactly how it felt to me. It was as though the rocker was from left to right. I tilted first to the left, then the right, then the left again.
#36
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Pine Grove, PA
Posts: 466
I was all shook up in PA....I thought the washing machine was spinning off balance, when the house was shaking, but...I didn't do any laundry yesterday! Then ,I thought, "Did my husband do a load of laundry?" Now you know how crazy the earthquake can make you....my husband would never do a load of laundry!!!!
#39
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 160
I am about 25 miles from there. At the time I was on the sixth floor of an old building, and wondered if it would stay standing. Luckily no real damage. My home is between here and there and had several items knocked over and off of shelves, but no real damage luckily. Just reminds me why I don't want to live in CA.
#40
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Folsom, CA
Posts: 1,548
Very unusual. I always say I would rather live in earthquake country then deal with the hurricanes and tornados that cross so much of the eastern part of the country. The largest memorable one for me was the 89 earthquake in the Bay Area where San Francisco really received quite a bit of damage and the bay bridge partially collapsed. We lost 3 foot of water from our pool, but that was it and no electricity that night.
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