Earthquake near DC
Earthquake near DC
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5.8 mag earthquake on the east coast.
When was the last time you drove down the highway without seeing a commercial truck hauling goods?
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Felt it here in Northwest Ohio.
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The North Anna nuclear plants near the epicenter are reported shutdown. Probably automatically. 5.5 is really pretty minor to industrial facilities, but structural and residential framing and masonry, painting, trim, plaster over lathe, and drywall cracking will likely be very large.
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Interesting feeling.
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The Hill is reporting that the Park Service is stating there is no serious damage to any of D.C.'s national monuments:
U.S. Park Police in Washington made an initial survey of the city's monuments after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake and found no serious damage.
According to The Washington Post, the Park Police checked the monuments by helicopter shortly after the earthquake on Tuesday.
Yep - that is the proper procedure to check out a structure after an earthquake - get in the chopper with your binoculars and check it out!
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Guess they couldn't see this from the choppper.
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Something is wrong with that.
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Wow...they actually gave credit to "structural engineers" instead of using the term architect.
Not sure how a crack at the very tip top would be seismically induced but you never know. I'd expect cracks closer to the base, or maybe at mid-height.
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For years the seismic gurus were saying that most of the east coast would never experience anything higher than the mid-5's. Today the sky-is-falling crowd in NY is predicting a 7.0 is going to hit NYC.
Last night when I was leaving work, some people (not engineers) on the elevator were saying "we have to do something to stop these earthquakes."
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I guess they couldn't find an engineer who would say what they wanted to report- so they went to academia.
For the area impacted- 5.8 is obviously big (in California- they don't put down their coffee until a minimum 6.0), but I would bet that for 95% of the buildings, the seismic load didn't approach the wind load the buildings were designed for. The primary buildings where I would expect to see structural damage to would consist of un-reinforced brick walls that were not designed to current codes or buildings that were not constructed properly.
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Despite all the seismic reinvigoration that's gone on over the last 6 years for us, we're still having the most damage and problems with wind, winds we aren't required to design for but are getting with increased frequency and increased speed.
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Compare this "evacuation" of federal buildings and mass "leave work early to check on the family" quasi-hysteria in the media to a real 6.0 earthquake in say, Alaska or Washington state or Oregon. Or Peru.
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It depends on the harmonic it saw, but I agree - I thought of the whiplash effect here, and the fact that the structure is over 120 years old since completed, and 230 years since the conceptual design. Not too many computers back then.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Mike- as to your point and that other string on seismic design in Florida, I thought about that too. Since the largest seismic event ever in Florida is estimated in the lower "3s", and this one was a 5.8 and did not cause much in the way of serious structural damage in an area with much older structures (that I have seen so far), I would be further convinced our state is just fine in not requiring seismic design since we have 100-150mph wind design requirements...
But who knows, maybe the geophysicists have missed something and we will get a big one in our lifetime!
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Woke my a$$ up. Not my wife.
Told her our bed hadn't moved that much in twenty years!!
I still haven't gotten all the teeth fixed!!
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The thing that worries me about the Florida situation is the proximity geologically to Haiti and what happened there. There are some pretty serious fault lines running east-west there with a long history. That coupled with the fact that we do not know it all, as you said, worries me. Maybe not for a "big one" as we visualize for the west coast, but more than bargained for in Florida for the concrete structures there. That's my concern.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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What was the max earthquake in Florida?
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The link about doesn't say the magnitudes but the highest on the modified mercalli scale is MMVI, which would correspond to a magnitude of about 4.3.
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Wash Monument Crack
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is this really true? this seems to be at the top area of the monument. and it seems that the crack was exaggerated.
I was expecting that for a free standing structure the crack should be major at the bottom.
Anyway, I was born in the land where 8-9.0 magnitude is possible.
As observed, for some countries..earthquake magnitude never goes down. year 90's it was magnitude 4-5 only and that is the highest. Nowadays, no more of these magnitude yet this is the lowest.
This must have something to do with the last days.
Regards,
E104909
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My initial response is too many lawyers, but I'd conclude with too much ignorance. There is too much money/prestige to be gained by scaring people and no consequences for false alarms. Land of individualism - the rugged have all left.
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I'm based out of the SE (Carolinas) and my firm had recently finished construction of a large (for this area) 15 story tower for a client in NC. Well, this EQ hits Mineral, VA and our client is suddenly very aware that Earthquakes do, in fact, happen (who knew right?). Anyway, for the past two weeks I've been doing some THA stuff and comparing the Mineral, VA EQ to essentially it's equivalent EQ in NC.
Results? I was actually surprised to find there are some parts of the design response spectrum [ASCE 7-05] that were exceeded by the Mineral, VA EQ. We saw peaks exceed the spectrum for a natural period of .6-.8 seconds and again at 1.1 to 1.3 seconds, the later being much less pronounced(Our data was obtained from the CERI center out of Memphis).
With the realization that more people than just Engineers sit on the Building Codes, anyone got the over/under on the Seismic requirements on the East Coast increasing in the next few code cycles? I know which way I'm betting.
-HF