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General News: Earthquake Felt Throughout Area
August 23, 2011
An earthquake rattled Cornwall and the rest of the northeast on Tuesday afternoon, causing no damage locally but putting emergency officials on alert. The epicenter of the quake was outside Richmond, Virginia.
Orange County emergency officials said there are no reports of injuries or structural damages from the quake that was felt from Cornwall-on-Hudson to Port Jervis and beyond.
Cornwall police chief Todd Hazard said that the clerks working in the courtroom on the bottom floor of town hall felt the quake and that his department fielded some calls but no problems were reported.
At the DPW building on the waterfront in Cornwall-on-Hudson, employee Wayne Yeoman said he saw the trucks parked in the yard shaking and rocking back and forth when the quake hit at 1:51 pm. DPW superintendent Dave Halvorsen said that later he and an engineer inspected the building for any signs of damage and did not find any. “The building is fine, no water or gas leaks, no cracked sheetrock,” Halvorsen said.
Cornwall emergency management official Kurt Hahn said that the building appeared to have withstood the quake, which he estimated to have been between 2.5 and 3 on the Richter scale. The epicenter of the quake in Virginia registered 5.8, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Hahn also noted that forecast models are still showing the possibility that Hurricane Irene could hit the region this weekend.
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WOW! What great news! The DPW Building is fine. It with held through an extreme test from Mother Nature herself! Maybe this was a sign that it's time to move the DPW operations back into the building!!!
posted by Kerry Merritt on 08/24/11 at 1:35 PM
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Funny, one of the reasons the building was closed in the first place was that personnel inside felt it shaking when the wind blew. It was found not built to code and closed. Now people forget that and want to have a hurricane party there.
Those people still alive in Galveston can attest that it's not a bright idea to do that.
The building code isn't there to penalize anybody; it's to assure that buildings will be safe to a predictable level BEFORE they are built.
That those who commissioned, designed and built the DPW building completely disregarded that process -- the very process some of them were charged with enforcing in this Village -- is what ought to be penalized.
posted by Jon Chase on 08/24/11 at 2:21 PM
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That's it in a nutshell, Jon. Convenience is overrated.
posted by Rick Gioia on 08/24/11 at 9:09 PM
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