Sooo.... What the hell?

[???????£??Rose Nocturna???]

As a lot of people know, on the eastern coast of America, lies the Delmarva Peninsula, which is in the center, or near the center of the "Ring of Fire".  The "Ring of Fire" is a tectonic plate.  Because of this fact, the Delmarva area doesn't ever get hit by quakes.  Well, today, the D.C. area was hit by a 5.8 Magnitude earthquake.  I felt it about 100 or so miles out.  Anyone else?  Oh, btw, it knocked the Steam serves in that area offline... So, if I were to, oh, idunno, join OCRP, my admin rank and other things would not load.   Wtf Earth...

[Dordan]

That's good right?

[???????£??Rose Nocturna???]

That's good right?

It threw me out of my bed today, which by the way, is like a bunk bed, but the bottom bunk is actually a desk, AND, my house almost fell.  No, its horrible, and add on top of that the fact that WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE THEM. [/rant]

[Dordan]

It threw you out of your bed?  You said you felt it not got thrown by it.

[???????£??Rose Nocturna???]

It threw you out of your bed?  You said you felt it not got thrown by it.

That constitutes feeling it....

[Eclipse]

I felt it since I'm 30 miles from DC, I was sleeping at the time and it woke my ass up.

[Khub]

Well, I am happy that I live in Czech Republic. Its next to Germany. No earthquakes.

[SaoulZod]

As a lot of people know, on the eastern coast of America, lies the Delmarva Peninsula, which is in the center, or near the center of the "Ring of Fire".  The "Ring of Fire" is a tectonic plate.  Because of this fact, the Delmarva area doesn't ever get hit by quakes.  Well, today, the D.C. area was hit by a 5.8 Magnitude earthquake.  I felt it about 100 or so miles out.  Anyone else?  Oh, btw, it knocked the Steam serves in that area offline... So, if I were to, oh, idunno, join OCRP, my admin rank and other things would not load.   Wtf Earth...

Ring of fire is the Pacific Tectonic Plate, not the Atlantic. The reason it was so weird on the Eastern Coast of America is because there IS no plate there to shift. It's actually square in the middle of one (North American Plate, I believe) but yeah... enough of me being a Nazi.


I didn't feel it here in Georgia, but it pissed my dogs off somethin' fierce....

[wakeboarderCWB]

I live in Michigan, about 600 miles away from D.C, and my sister felt it in an 18 story building. She got sick of course, but I didn't feel it at ground level.

[cookiesofamerica]

Well, I am happy that I live in Czech Republic. Its next to Germany. No earthquakes.

There aren't any earthquakes in Europe or in this case very small magnitude earthquakes over there.

[Yimmy The Cat]

i kinda felt it here in New York. It kinda made me dizzy, and my glass of pop was shaking. (i was at the mall) then some group of kids where flipping out because someone hear that there was an earth quack there. somehow, that turned into everyone calling there homes because they thought it happened here.

[Snapster]

I don't get why everyone was so scared on a tiny little shaking, get over it! xD I live on the West coast, so they are common here, glad we only get earthquakes unlike the rest of the united states that get everything else haha.

[BltElite]

Minute earthquakes can happen where there isn't a fault line.

[??. McBullet]

I felt it in Maryland. Scary shit; even though the shaking wasn't bad, we almost never get earthquakes and it caught me by surprise.

@snapster: The reason it bothered so many people is that it was so unlikely to happen. Most people where I live have no freaking clue what to do.

[JACK SPARROW]

I was in northern MD when it happened, small world right Bullet? anyways it took a couple seconds to register in my head until I dove for the nearest doorway.