After last weeks NASCAR debacle with Kyle Busch, the world is in an uproar and being split in half. There are those that had no problem with what he’s done or his tactical behavior leading up to that, (aka, his fans) and there are those that never took to his ways and more or less, hate Kyle Busch. Nah, that’s a strong word. How about, have no tolerance for Kyle Busch’s practices.
Now today, it was announced that Kyle’s NASCAR Nationwide Series sponsor, Z-Line, asked Joe Gibbs Racing to replace Busch with Denny Hamlin in the Nationwide series finale race at Homestead.
I know it’s only one sponsor, and this isn’t related, but it’s starting to feel like a Tiger Woods thing all over again with how sponsors have to worry about their bottom line.
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Then today on SiriusXM, Dave Moody started talking about Z-Line’s Facebook page. It seems that, per a non-scientific survey done by Dave Moody, 50% of the comments on the Facebook wall say,
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Yesterday, 8-23-11, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake, now being called “The Virginia earthquake,” hit on the East Coast.
Above is the Virginia Tech seismograph chart during the Virginia earthquake.
Apparently The Virginia Earthquake was pretty shallow, meaning the actual physical disruption that caused the ground waves everyone felt, was close to the surface. It was a mere 3.7 miles below the surface and located 5 miles SSW from Mineral, VA or 38 miles from NW of Richmond, VA. It was a “reverse faulting on a north or northeast-striking plane” event. Um, whatever that means.
I first heard about the earthquake while listening to Sirius XM NASCAR radio, when Dave Moody started desribing his experience. As always, his skill at putting what he observes into words is second-to-none and as he described what he experienced, I was thinking, yep, those are the standard observations of an earthquake. Small things start to rattle and as the energy of the event starts to build, other, bigger things or events start to happen.
The earthquake was felt across a huge region of the Eastern seaboard and East Coast. To be precise, magnitude 5+ earthquakes are known to be able to be felt as far as 300 mi away from the event and can actually cause damage at distances of 25 miles from the epicenter.
This is actually very typical as earthquakes east of the Rockies can be felt over areas ten times larger than a similar earthquake on the west coast can be felt.
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