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austin_blue8/23/2011 6:48:57 pm PDT

re: #57 Stanley Sea

Text “Sorry you spilled your chai latte” to 90999 to donate $1 to the victims of the U.S. East Coast earthquake.

Now see, that’s funny.

Talked to my baby bro in Richmond. Outside of watching everything on his desk do the downtown boogaloo and having numerous books fly off the shelves, not much damage fifty miles from the epicenter.

We’ll have to wait on the USGS to confirm this hypothesis, but given the depth and the location, it is looking to my geologist’s eye likely that the rupture was actually in the granitic core of the Blue Ridge. Since that core runs from western Georgia to Maine, it would explain how huge the shake zone was.