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post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: dikdik ()
Date: August 23, 2011 03:26PM

Supposed to be quite a few damaged structures being reported. Does anybody know of any in FFC?

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: Herndonite ()
Date: August 23, 2011 03:31PM

When the ground started shaking, the day laborers went inside while everyone went outside.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: mcsmack ()
Date: August 23, 2011 03:39PM

From drudge;
DETAILS...
Pentagon, Capitol evacuated...
Shakes Manhattan...
Felt from Toronto to Atlanta...
Epicenter VA...
Felt In Chicago...
Airports Closed...
CELLPHONES OUT...
Nuke Plant Shuts Down...
VIDEO: Vacant White House Shakes...
Stones fall off National Cathedral...
WASHINGTON MONUMENT 'TILTING'?... DEVELOPING...

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: 6X ()
Date: August 23, 2011 03:47PM

My stack of beer cans fell over.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: eesh ()
Date: August 23, 2011 03:48PM

NO ONE SURVIVED, NOT EVEN THE CHILDREN WERE SPARED

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: thanks VDOT ()
Date: August 23, 2011 03:52PM

As soon as they closed federal buildings the roads got packed. VDOT responded by closing parts of the Fairfax Parkway for line painting at 2:30 making the problem even worse.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: FEMA ()
Date: August 23, 2011 03:57PM

My Dr. Pepper spilled and stained my carpet. I'm turning it in to FEMA for reimbursement.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: Olde Farte ()
Date: August 23, 2011 04:00PM

We had stuff knocked over out (many) book shelves - a toilet is strangely now leaking at tank/bowl connection...great, just what I want to fix now.

And I have to do a walkaround outside, mainly to check the chimney.

I see about an hour after main shock there was a small aftershock at same epicenter - didn't hear or feel anything.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: Take a Stand ()
Date: August 23, 2011 04:04PM

The new doctors office building in Fair Oaks has significant damage to its foundation , cracks and chunks of concrete that are missing,

Probably cause it was new and hadn't settled yet, , OR just typical shitting construction .

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: Damage ()
Date: August 23, 2011 04:24PM

Everything on our fireplace mantle shook off. It scared the crap out of me.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: 6X ()
Date: August 23, 2011 04:24PM



Tysons

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: its twoo ()
Date: August 23, 2011 04:34PM

a dc mall cop reported the national monument is tilting

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: TB ()
Date: August 23, 2011 04:36PM

Where was that video taken?

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: owned ()
Date: August 23, 2011 04:38PM

re the above video --

Talk about shitty construction.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: Great Taste Less Filling ()
Date: August 23, 2011 04:46PM

There was a major tsunami in my Miller Lite located in Falls Church.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: put a little pepper on it ()
Date: August 23, 2011 04:51PM

Great Taste Less Filling Wrote:
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> There was a major tsunami in my Miller Lite
> located in Falls Church.


Miller Lite Guards! to the rescue

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: ThePackLeader ()
Date: August 23, 2011 08:30PM

They had a roof collapse at the Annandale campus of NVCC. The students were evacuated, but they were told it was okay to go back in through a text alert. Then an Officer suddenly came running out and told them to flee.

As for the Pentagon, pipes cracked and windows broke. The entire building rocked hard.

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: ThePackLeader ()
Date: August 23, 2011 08:36PM

Take a Stand Wrote:
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> The new doctors office building in Fair Oaks has
> significant damage to its foundation , cracks and
> chunks of concrete that are missing,
>
> Probably cause it was new and hadn't settled yet,
> , OR just typical shitting construction .


Nope, that just happens with bigger quakes, especially on the East Coast, where it simply doesn't make much sense to construct buildings for earthquakes. An older house of ours, well constructed to say the least, developed foundation cracks in NJ after a Ramapo fault earthquake back in the 80's.

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: Johnny Walker ()
Date: August 23, 2011 08:44PM

My DVDs were all over the floor.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: My.. ()
Date: August 23, 2011 08:57PM

Dildo fell out. Bummer.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: Sad ()
Date: August 23, 2011 09:12PM

I heard that CES is no longer fit for our kids.

They plan on blasting the old school to make way for an upscale fitness center.

I only hope that M does not apply for a job. She is a real *%#*+.

Suck on that.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: Vienna Sausage ()
Date: August 24, 2011 12:02PM

Didn't some building facades fall on parked cars in Vienna? I saw some photos on News Channel 8 of cars totally crushed.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: Olde Farte ()
Date: August 24, 2011 12:11PM

Vienna Sausage Wrote:
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> Didn't some building facades fall on parked cars
> in Vienna? I saw some photos on News Channel 8 of
> cars totally crushed.

Yes. Watch the video someone posted above.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: bubbagump ()
Date: August 24, 2011 01:34PM

No damage here in Sante Fe.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: fist pumpin jew ()
Date: August 24, 2011 01:49PM

one of my fish fell to its death after it jumped out of the aquarium. and a stack of those shitty wire dry cleaning hangers were all over the closet floor.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: snowdenscold ()
Date: August 25, 2011 01:28AM

Anyone else feel the aftershock about 15 minutes ago? I was reading and noticed the house was rattling. I thought "I hope this is an aftershock, or else something really expensive is happening".

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: Kelp ()
Date: August 25, 2011 01:34AM

There apparently was another tremor a few minutes ago.

Didn't feel it though.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: rob ()
Date: August 25, 2011 01:44AM

i felt it.

part of me says while the probability of happening is under 5%, i feel our area will eventually get hit by a 7.0+ earthquake.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: I Woke Up ()
Date: August 25, 2011 01:45AM

Kelp Wrote:
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> There apparently was another tremor a few minutes
> ago.
>
> Didn't feel it though.


I woke up after sleeping about 3 hours. As I was about to get out of bed, I seem to have felt something - more along the lines of a cat jumping on my bed, but there was no cat. Odd.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: I Woke Up ()
Date: August 25, 2011 01:48AM

rob Wrote:
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> i felt it.
>
> part of me says while the probability of happening
> is under 5%, i feel our area will eventually get
> hit by a 7.0+ earthquake.


Peru had a 7.0 yesterday. I happened mostly in barren land and about 375 miles from Lima, so no major damages have been reported at this point.

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: I Felt It ()
Date: August 25, 2011 01:53AM

At 1:05 a.m. (EST), there was a M4.5 detected to the east of Charlottesville:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/c0005jg1/us/index.html

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: I'm all shook up! ()
Date: August 25, 2011 12:12PM


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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: I'm all shook up! ()
Date: August 25, 2011 12:20PM

Watch this guys reaction...


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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: rickafterburner ()
Date: August 25, 2011 07:58PM

I heard of a home under construction collapsing near Bealton, VA, but can't find any reports. Anyone familiar? Bealton is where 17 comes north from Fredericksburg and intersects with 28 coming from Dulles. It's pretty rural there, but there's a development in the area.

I couldn't find any reports of any modern homes collapsing and most reports were chimneys and facades coming off.

Rick

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Re: post earthquake damage reports here
Posted by: geri ()
Date: August 25, 2011 08:52PM

I can't find my girdle.

It was drying, out on the line, but must have jumped off during the earthquake.

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