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Holy Crap! Brooklyn, NY Earthquake
Standing in my shop and holy sheet, the earth starts moving from side to side! The 16 x 16 wood columns and beams move, and I mean a lot! Got everyone out of the building.
Now I know what goes on in Cali...not fun!
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i'd rather have a little shaky shaky then a hurricane or 90% humidity any day
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08-23-2011, 11:06 AM
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Breathin Dust an dancin with a greasy whore on a rollin dance floor...Thirty days in the Hole is what they give yeah.
A good roller makes yeah feel like your standin on Jello...Unsupported Masonary is what falls and kills..
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08-23-2011, 11:17 AM
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Slippery Slope Victim
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Its not the heat....its the humidity for sure. NYC is due for a hurricane, maybe we'll see one this weekend, sure hopes it does not make landfall in the US.
The shaky shaky was freaky. It was a strange sensation.
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08-23-2011, 11:28 AM
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My grand dad was a Mason.. and he used to fall a lot...
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08-23-2011, 11:34 AM
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Looks like it was a 5.8, centered near Richmond Va.
Based on the distance from New York I'm guessin' it probably felt close to what a 4.5 would have felt if it were centered right under you. Definately enough to get your attention. The scale is base-10 logarithmic i.e. A 6.0 has a shaking amplitude 10 times larger than a 5.0. Kinda puts that whole 9.0 Japanese earthquake in perspective, doesn't it? Last edited by sammyg2; 08-23-2011 at 11:49 AM.. |
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08-23-2011, 11:45 AM
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LOL 5 threads on it already
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08-23-2011, 11:52 AM
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Slippery Slope Victim
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My building was built in 1900 and used 16" x 16" Southern Yellow Pine for the columns and beams. It was somewhat disconcerting seeing them rack by 4 inches side to side. We now install piping to siesmic code here in NYC, I think the flexability of the wood bolted up framing works to the advantage in this situation.
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08-23-2011, 11:54 AM
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I felt it all the way up in Nashua NH while I was in a meeting with a customer.
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Slippery Slope Victim
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First I thought was the building is collapsing.
Second earthquake??? Third.....BIG bomb in Manhattan, a stones throw from my shop across the river., maybe a small nuke, waiting for impact...seriously. The constant feeling of the other shoe dropping takes a toll on you, we're always waiting for another "event" here in NYC. Crappy way to live.
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08-23-2011, 06:04 PM
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I was driving when it happened. Figured it was just the NYC potholes....
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I'll take earthquakes and fires if only I could be free of snarky Seattle hipsters.
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08-24-2011, 12:58 AM
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If it's less than a 6.0 it didn't happen.
Coming from an ex-Californian. "unreinforced" my dear tabs, not "unsupported". The reinforcing in masonry structures (generally steel bars) gives it tensile strength. Without the reinforcing the structure has little to no tensile strength - only compressive - and as such is unable to bend. You are correct though - unreinforced masonry is bad, bad, bad stuff in a seismic event. It is also one of the cheapest forms of construction available which is why it's so prevalent in a lot of third-world countries. This is also why when events like earthquakes hit these places, the fatality rates are orders of magnitude larger than when they hit places employing more modern construction methods (like the U.S., Japan, etc.) and which typically do not allow unreinforced masonry construction (other than for things like outdoor low-height retaining walls). Reinforcing. Know it, love it, use it. Don't get cheap.
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08-24-2011, 01:52 AM
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Another 911 "event". We take that possibility very seriously, we don't joke about that subject.
I love this city. Yeah, it's fuched up at times but it really is a great town and 99.9% of the people are very friendly and considerate.
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08-24-2011, 03:34 AM
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Mike, I was in a cafe having a cup of coffee. A big truck went by and all of a sudden the earth started shaking. "That is one MF of a truck" I thought. My next thought was, "We are right above the subway line, the street must be really thin from when they did "cut and cover" back in 1904, for the street to move around like that.
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08-24-2011, 04:09 AM
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