An earthquake just shook the eastern seaboard at 1:53 p.m. The U.S. Geological Survey said quake measuring 5 on the Richter scale struck in central Virginia.
Updare:
Two Hours Later !!!!!
Hearst Newspapers And The Greenwich Time Are Begging For News Stories:
Two Hours Later !!!!!
Hearst Newspapers And The Greenwich Time Are Begging For News Stories:
Did you feel the earthquake?
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake with an epicenter in northern Virginia sent tremors throughout the east coast Tuesday afternoon, including all of Connecticut.
Stories of tremors shaking and evacuating buildings and public safety officials urging caution quickly went viral on Twitter, and just about everyone from Greenwich to Danbury, from Stamford to the Valley, felt the impact.
We need more reader stories to pass along and display on our websites, so we’re asking you: Where were you when the earthquake hit? What did you feel? How did people in your building react?
Leave a comment to tell us your story and we’ll feature the best ones in a story across the Hearst Connecticut Media Group.
UPDATE #2:
THE HEARST NEWSPAPER TWITS ARE NOW SPAMMING TWITTER BEGGING FOR STORY IDEAS AS EVERY CONNECTICUT NEWS BLOG AND NEWSPAPER IS SCOOPING THEM LEFT AND RIGHT
THE HEARST NEWSPAPER TWITS ARE NOW SPAMMING TWITTER BEGGING FOR STORY IDEAS AS EVERY CONNECTICUT NEWS BLOG AND NEWSPAPER IS SCOOPING THEM LEFT AND RIGHT
UPDATE #3:
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
FOUR AND A HALF HOURS LATER
IT'S NOT REALLY A LOCAL GREENWICH NEWS STORY, BUT WILL GIVE THE GREENWICH TIME AN E FOR EFFORT
Quake causes Twitter frenzy
Ben Doody, Staff Writer
Published 06:35 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Tuesday's quake may be more memorable for the reaction on Twitter than for any damage. Photos
Maybe Ben Doody Should Tell Everybody That He Was The Hearst Newspaper Twit On Twiitter Who Was Responsible For All The Repitious Spam Messages
UPDATE #4:
STOP THE PRESSES !!!!!
SEVEN HOURS AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE HIT THE GREENWICH TIME FINALY GETS A LOCAL EARTHQUAKE STORY UP ON IT'S SO CALLED NEWS WEBSITE .....Earthquake felt in Greenwich
Staff reports
Published 07:55 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Shaken, not stirred.
The James Bond phrase aptly describes many Greenwich residents who felt the rumble of one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded on the East Coast on Tuesday afternoon.
The 5.8-magnitude, which was centered about 40 miles northwest of Richmond, Va., shook buildings and rattled nerves up and down the Eastern Seaboard and forced the evacuations of parts of the Capitol, White House and Pentagon. Some large buildings in lower Fairfield County, including in Stamford, were also emptied following the quake, which struck at 1:51 p.m.
But while Greenwich police and fire officials said they received several calls from concerned residents wondering if there had been an earthquake, there were no calls for help, no reports of damage and no evacuations in town.....
.....Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who was in Stamford at the time of the quake, issued a statement saying the state's Emergency Operations Center was opened as a precaution, but added there were no reports of any injuries or damage anywhere in the state. The center was closed within a few hours.
The light shaking was equivalent roughly to a magnitude-2.7 quake, said Peter Boynton, deputy commissioner of the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection. He said state agencies were inspecting infrastructure like dams, and roads as a precaution.....
...The region has had a handful of tremors in recent decades, the most memorable in November 1988, which was centered in Canada but felt throughout the Northeast, New York and down to Maryland. Among the quakes that occurred in the past half-century or so are in March 1953 in the Stamford area, November 1968 and August 1988 near Norwich, June 1991 near New Fairfield, April 1996 in Westport and April and October 1991 and again in February 2001 in the Greenwich-Stamford area.
Another occurred just before 7 a.m. April 20, 2002. It was centered in the Adirondack Mountains near Plattsburgh, N.Y., and felt throughout southern Connecticut.
Tuesday's temblor might not be the last to be felt in lower Fairfield County. As it turns out, Greenwich is on an earthquake fault line.
In July 1999, Wesleyan University researchers discovered evidence of activity in a major fault line that runs along the shoreline of Greenwich and Branford. Long believed to be dormant, the fault line is thought to be responsible for a pattern of earthquakes that have occurred in the state about every 200 years over the past 1,200 years. At the time, researchers said the pattern suggests that the state might be due for another temblor that could reach a magnitude of 5.
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