Sitting in my chair on the 6th floor I suddenly realized that my chair was rolling from left to right – then I realized that my desk to was moving, and in fact the floor was swaying….
For someone who hasn’t lived in Southern California, or Vancouver this was a first for me. An earthquake!
Now for the power of social media – while people were gathering to ask “did you feel that” I opened up my BlackBerry, logged on to Twitter and read several posts almost immediately….earthquake felt in Washington, Virginia Ottawa and Toronto. As every thing seemed fine I headed to my computer and to this site:
Here’s the report moments afer:
| Magnitude | 5.9 |
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| Location | 37.975°N, 77.969°W |
| Depth | 1 km (~0.6 mile) (poorly constrained) |
| Region | VIRGINIA |
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| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 10.9 km (6.8 miles); depth +/- 7.4 km (4.6 miles) |
| Parameters | NST=390, Nph=390, Dmin=57.9 km, Rmss=1.17 sec, Gp= 47°, M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6 |
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So naturally after all that I’m curious – did you feel that?
Hybrid Thoughts 