Talk:2011 Virginia earthquake

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Depth

Where are you getting a 5.9 km depth? USGS reports is as 1km.

I think someone must have confused magnitude and depth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.97.225.203 (talk) 18:34, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Felt in Wisconsin

Sadly it's OR as we cannot independently report it, but our Madison, Wisconsin, office's building was shaken by this. --Golbez (talk) 18:31, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You can always report impact to the USGS (the earthquake is already specified in form, just fill in the info queried. Tyrol5 [Talk] 18:42, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are currently reports of the earthquake being felt in Quebec, Canada, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine in addition to the mainstream media confirmed locations appearing in this article.

Other areas affected

We should mention that this quake affected several states on the east coast, including PA, NY, NJ, MA, etc. This made national news on major news stations, including CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, etc. I am from NJ and we felt a tremble in our house. It was scary, since it is very rare to have earthquakes in this part of the country. – Tinton5 (talk) 18:33, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]


It is currently on the major news stations, btw. North Carolina, Detroit, MI, Georgia, and Chicago, IL were also affected. — Tinton5 (talk) 18:34, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Places

Do we really need a list? It was felt in lots of places. – ukexpat (talk) 18:35, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe just say across the Northeast and Midwest? Agrdeuce (talk) 18:44, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia home page

How has this not hit the home page?Dogru144 (talk) 18:40, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It will by tonight --Guerillero | My Talk 18:40, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia's homepage is usually the first place where I hear about things like this, but I actually heard about this on television... so either Wikipedia is slow or I'm unusually fast today. ;P--Sean Quixote (talk) 19:34, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ITN

This article has been nominated for In the News: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#Virginia_Earthquake

Extra Source

Impact

Should we report airport closures and evacuations of government buildings? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.159.152.139 (talk) 18:48, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Time

The correct time was 1:51pm EST - not 2:12: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/se082311a.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sjmoll (talk • contribs) 19:03, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The time should be 1:51pm EDT, not EST. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.251.134.5 (talk) 19:40, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Can an admin protect the article? It has been subject of vandalism multiple times in the last minutes. Thanks --Camilo Sanchez (talk) 18:51, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Beat me to the punch. I second this. Scxnwa (talk) 18:55, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Semi-protection is desperately needed. Link (talk) 18:57, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, thanks to whomever protected the article. --Camilo Sanchez (talk) 18:59, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Can an admin instate full protection until news sources are 'stabilised' and rumours, personal stories, vandalism stop. Too many edits with uncredible/changing sources. Also, many, many edit conflicts Rooboy715 (talk) 19:16, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thats not one of the few reasons full protection can be used--Guerillero | My Talk 19:20, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Really, persistent vandalism, edit conflicts with hundreds of edits occurring doesn't merit full protection until things settle down ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rooboy715 (talk • contribs) 19:35, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Washington Monument Tilting

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/aug/23/picket-fnc-reports-washington-monument-may-be-tilt/ Piercewater (talk) 19:05, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

To quote the article: "Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly reported at 2:30 pm that their bureau received information from a producer saying that a Captiol Hill Police officer says that the Washington Monument may actually be tilting as a result of the earthquake."
I think that's about as good an example of hearsay as one could want, and the phrase "may actually be" adds a nice touch of additional uncertainly. Let's wait for something a bit more, umm, authoritative. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 19:15, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
No need to be so condescending about it. You could have said "Sorry, this is not an acceptable source at this time" and left it at that. Piercewater (talk) 19:21, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Magnitude

It seems like the USGS has downgraded it to a 5.8. Not too sure; the news is reporting the downgrading, but USGS has not updated its page. --DMP47 (talk) 19:08, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of sources are reporting it as a 6.0 earthquake. Intoronto1125TalkContributions 19:09, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, but the USGS has officially released it as 5.9 (though news sources have updated that number) http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/se082311a.html --DMP47 (talk) 19:10, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I am just being the devil's advocate here. Intoronto1125TalkContributions 19:31, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Huge amount of edit conflicts

I can't seem to add info about more affected areas, since the large amount of edit conflicts. If anyone reads this, please fill in that Florida, New Jersey, Georgia, and others not mentioned. Also, airport delays could be added? Tinton5 (talk) 19:14, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sources please? --Guerillero | My Talk 19:15, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This site shows reports: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/se/082311a/us/index.html --DMP47 (talk) 19:17, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Added airport delays. --Scxnwa (talk) 19:18, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Were New Hampshire and Maine affected?? Tinton5 (talk) 19:34, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nova Scotia felt it too, looking for reliable source now. Ivtv (talk) 19:41, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sensationalizing nonsense

The quake has been downgraded agin to 5.8. Yet someone keeps using a blog to source the comment that this is the largest quake in VA history. It is not, see the USGS site. μηδείς (talk) 19:26, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wait till the craze is over in an hour --Guerillero | My Talk 19:32, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why does this even have its own page? It's a non-event and will be forgotten in 2 days. --TruckOttr (talk) 19:34, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Really? -- Veggy (talk) 19:38, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Add about President in Martha's Vineyard/Cell phones were down too

Should we insert that President Obama was vacationing here when the earthquake occured? Tinton5 (talk) 19:35, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Also, can we add that cell phones and social media were affected? Tinton5 (talk) 19:39, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  1. no. it has no bearing on the event.
  2. IFF it was covered by sources --Guerillero | My Talk 19:40, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Too many "felt as far away as..."

I propose to reduce the number of states/provinces named in the first sentence of the Imact section. Rather than name pretty much every sourced place, how about naming only those which are the furthest away in every resepctive direction. It does say, after all, "as far away as...".

For example, since Massachusetts is named, Rhode Island is redundant, as it is closer to the epicenter than Massachusetts. Likewise South Caralina and North Carolina.

Comments? Baccyak4H (Yak!) 19:41, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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