Anyone feel the tremor? Evidently there was a 5.8 quake in Virginia, but I felt my building moving on the 4th floor d'town Cola at the same time. People in the street or ground level didn't feel anything.
I grew up in Anchorage where earthquakes were a monthly event and a city that had it's landscape changed during the big one in the 60's. The main street in downtown split down the middle with the bottom portion dropping 20 feet. They moved the road over and built buildings right over the fault line... 1 story at street level, and two storys on the back side.
My high school was cut in two and they built a ramp about 10' to connect the halfs. There was a park we used to go to called earthquake park. It used to be a neighborhood built on some soft earth. The quake literally rolled the entire area into mush. You could see remnants of houses, utility poles sticking out of the ground sideways. Really amazing stuff. I hear that they recently rebuilt in this area. Must be selling to newbies to Alaska... no one from that area would buy into a deathtrap like that.
