Watch seismic waves from VA earthquake ripple across the country
Virginia earthquake waves ripple across the US!
This is very cool: seismometers deployed across the United States detected the seismic waves from the magnitude 5.9 earthquake that hit Virginia on August 23, 2011. In this animation showing the data you can actually see the wave rippling across the country!
What you’re seeing here are vertical ( Read more... )
This is very cool: seismometers deployed across the United States detected the seismic waves from the magnitude 5.9 earthquake that hit Virginia on August 23, 2011. In this animation showing the data you can actually see the wave rippling across the country!
What you’re seeing here are vertical ( Read more... )
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Also, intriguing that the forest of seismometers in the Midwest, presumably waiting for the New Madrid Fault's next big one, actually actually showed the propagation of waves from a 'quake hundreds of miles distant.
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Having said that---I live in roughly the middle of WV and barely felt a thing. I wouldn't have noticed anything had I not been looking at my glass of iced tea and saw that it was moving very, very slightly. It didn't even wake my cat up, who was asleep in my lap!
The Earth, she is a wonderful and scary place.
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