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07-16-2010, 07:07 AM
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Yall feel it? It happened at about 5am and was centered in Gaithersburg.
I played a show lastnight in DC and didn't get home until almost 3... so i slept through it. Ironically, i DID wake up when my phone vibrated with a news break ABOUT the Earthquake.
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07-16-2010, 07:27 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: MoCo, MD | | I felt it, it was centered in Germantown, about 5 or 6 miles from my house.
It woke me and my 15month old son up, but we both got back to sleep. No damage.
Sounded like a deep warbling oscillation accompanied by the bed shaking, which was odd because the Mrs. was out of town. 
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07-16-2010, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Din Of Win  I played a show last night in DC... so i slept through it. | Me too! But I am playing in Gaithersburg tonight, outside the Star Diner in Kentlands. Maybe we can get some testimonials from some audience members! Earthquake horror stories, that'll perk up the show! 
Edit: Here's an eyewitness report, from the Wash. Post. Note how the wife is quick to blame it on the husband, ha ha...
"Dean Miletich, of Frederick. Md. told The Post's Jonathan Forsythe: "I was taking out the trash right around 5 a.m. And when I came back into the garage, everything on the shelves were shaking, especially a step ladder that rattled against the side wall. It sounded like a deep rumble. When I came back inside, my wife had woken up and asked me, 'What did you do?'."
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07-16-2010, 08:23 AM
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07-16-2010, 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Lazylion Me too! But I am playing in Gaithersburg tonight, outside the Star Diner in Kentlands. Maybe we can get some testimonials from some audience members! Earthquake horror stories, that'll perk up the show!
Edit: Here's an eyewitness report, from the Wash. Post. Note how the wife is quick to blame it on the husband, ha ha...
"Dean Miletich, of Frederick. Md. told The Post's Jonathan Forsythe: "I was taking out the trash right around 5 a.m. And when I came back into the garage, everything on the shelves were shaking, especially a step ladder that rattled against the side wall. It sounded like a deep rumble. When I came back inside, my wife had woken up and asked me, 'What did you do?'." |
Ahahaha... that quote is awesome!
It's all ANYONE is talking about in the office. Everyone's been getting calls from family members seeing if they're ok, haha.
Where were you at in DC? We played at the Black Cat. Kentlands freaks me out a bit... it has a Stepford Wives vibe.
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07-16-2010, 09:28 AM
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07-16-2010, 09:30 AM
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Originally Posted by need4mospd I've had bigger earthquakes in my pants. Seriously, it was not pretty. | *girthquakes
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07-16-2010, 09:36 AM
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07-16-2010, 10:30 AM
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07-16-2010, 10:32 AM
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07-16-2010, 10:52 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: San Diego/LA | | 3.6....WOW!!!! It's been since, gosh, Wednesday since we had one that big in SoCal.  |
07-16-2010, 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by 6jase5 3.6....WOW!!!! It's been since, gosh, Wednesday since we had one that big in SoCal. | Yup, 3.9M Wednesday morning. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...ps/115-33.html |
07-16-2010, 11:25 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: 3rd stone from the sun | | | All of you sarcastic Californians need to understand that this is an extremely rare occurrence. You know when it snows in LA or SF for like 5 minutes and it's the talk of the town for a day or two while other parts of the country regularly get feet per year? It's kind of like that. Let us all bask in our glow of disbelief for a couple days.
I lived in SF and Santa Cruz for about 10 years and they were frequent. Many of them felt like a delivery truck hit the building or something. One in Santa Cruz (Aptos really) almost through me out of bed to the floor at night. That was only 4.6 but the fact that my house was on stilts over a gulch in the redwoods and I was damn near on the epicenter (this was Loma Prieta again) made it really violent.
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07-16-2010, 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by baba All of you sarcastic Californians need to understand that this is an extremely rare occurrence. You know when it snows in LA or SF for like 5 minutes and it's the talk of the town for a day or two while other parts of the country regularly get feet per year? It's kind of like that. Let us all bask in our glow of disbelief for a couple days.
I lived in SF and Santa Cruz for about 10 years and they were frequent. Many of them felt like a delivery truck hit the building or something. One in Santa Cruz (Aptos really) almost through me out of bed to the floor at night. That was only 4.6 but the fact that my house was on stilts over a gulch in the redwoods and I was damn near on the epicenter (this was Loma Prieta again) made it really violent. | I'm a sarcastic East Coaster (5 minutes from MD border) now settled in San Diego. I know the rarity, hence the hiding smiley faces.
We had a thunderstorm yesterday, first one in years, actual thunder. Sort of like the EC earthquake in reverse. Next I'm expecting humidity, no wait, today IS muggy??? If I see a mosquito, I'm outta here. |
07-16-2010, 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Din Of Win Ahahaha... that quote is awesome!
It's all ANYONE is talking about in the office. Everyone's been getting calls from family members seeing if they're ok, haha.
Where were you at in DC? We played at the Black Cat. Kentlands freaks me out a bit... it has a Stepford Wives vibe. | The Kentlands were modelled after Frederick. Seriously.
I slept through it. |
07-16-2010, 12:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Baltimore | | | We felt it in north Baltimore. My wife and I both woke. |
07-16-2010, 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Brad Johnson The Kentlands were modelled after Frederick. Seriously. | Well... there's my mind blower of the day.
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07-17-2010, 12:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Din Of Win Well... there's my mind blower of the day. | Yep, supposed to have a "walking neighborhood" vibe like older parts of Frederick and Celebration,FL IIRC. |
07-17-2010, 03:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: New Jersey | | Wow. I used to live just outside of Gaithersburg
Not the kind of place you'd expect an earthquake, that's for sure
I wonder how many of those crappy Toll Brothers condos in Monkey Village fell down
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07-17-2010, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Din Of Win Where were you at in DC? We played at the Black Cat. Kentlands freaks me out a bit... it has a Stepford Wives vibe. | We played a private party in a building at 1st and D St. NW, great view of the Capitol from the 7th floor terrace!
Re: Kentlands, it had a Grateful Dead vibe last night, for sure!  (Phil-style!)
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