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5.1 Earthquake in NewEngland/NY?Official and Confirmed!:-O

spaceman

spaceman

Lifer
supposedly happened around 7.My Grandmother said it shook her house(im in Western MA) I didnt get up til 7:09
can anyone confirm this?
 
I felt here in Essex, Vermont, woke up and figured what it was and went back to sleep. BTW I just moved here from SoCal so not too big a deal. No damage here, all it did was knock some little stuff off a shelf. Just like being back in CA, minus the smog, crime, traffic.......lol.

BTW, they said on the news here the reason it could be felt so far away from the epicenter, is all the rock in the ground transmits the waves better then the sand like in CA.

Local CBS Report
 
New England is overdue for a big one. There are deep faults around that must under enormous strain right now. These earthquakes occur every few hundred years, so any day now. <Sees Baffled2 heading for the hills > 😛
 
apparently the central mississippi valley is due for a big one. texas doesn't seem to have that problem.
 


<< apparently the central mississippi valley is due for a big one >>



Yep, the New Madrid fault. It was the fault that gave us the biggest earthquake ever in the continental US. About 8.5 on the richter scale.
It changed the course of the Mississippi river.
 
South Texas gets 2s ever now and then. Even if a 7 hit down there, not much will be damaged... If a big one ever hit, with an epicenter anywhere near New York, it wouldnt be a pretty sight, especially if it was say 10am on a workday..
 


<< For the geologically challenged 😉


<a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/general/handouts/faq.html" target=blank>Earthy quakey linkey</A> >>



"I just felt an earthquake. Is there a fault there?
If there wasn't one before, there is one now."

heh
 


<< For the geologically challenged 😉


<a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/general/handouts/faq.html" target=blank>Earthy quakey linkey</A> >>

Where can I buy a Richter scale?
 
I woke up this morning and it felt like a fright train was running through my living room, the whole house was shaking, the wind chimes were ringing, ect. I live just East of Burlington, VT. I figured it was a small Earthquake (little tremor about 2-3 minutes afterwards also) when I didn't see a frieght train, hehe. Pretty interesting I have to say, don't get those too often here in Vermont.

-VTrider
 
Huh. I'm Ithaca, NY, and I didn't feel anything. Course, I was sleeping and I sleep like the dead, so.... Too bad, I've always wanted to feel an earthquake.
 
I live in Burlington, Vermont and at around 6:53 my whole wall was shakeing and i had to grab my air conditioner from falling out the window.. last time we had one was about 12 years ago... it was really wierd.... the aftershock came lately.. but was only like a 1

btw- i am surpised to see vermont ater's other than me

-Bubbadu
 
My wife felt it. I was driving my daughter to work and had the dog with us. The wife had thought that the dog was scratching itself in bed but soon realized that the dog wasn't there.
 
Didn't set off any alarms here. Matter of fact, if anything moved the slightest my Bud Frog would've started croaking and it didn't. Of course I was out cold so...

Cheers!
 
hmmmmmmm, I just flipped CNN on...let's see if it's in their schpiel of information that spans 5 minutes and loops all day! 😉
 
I felt it. I was sleeping soundly when I was rudely awakened by the violent shakings of my bed. I thought it was my mother trying to wake me up, so I opened my eyes but there was no one in my room! I looked at the clock and it said 6:51. So then I sat up, looked around my room, and all was normal, except that my bed was shaking back and forth. So at this point, I think "poltergeist," except I dont believe in ghosts. I lay back in bed, thoroughly confused and wondering if the ghost is going to show itself. (I'm very slow in the morning) Then, when it continued, I sat up, looked over the edges of my bed, and saw nothing. With this, the shaking stopped and I went back to bed. Then when I woke up 4 hours later, I entertained the thought that maybe it was an earthquake, so I checked the local newspaper's website and sure enough, a quake struck at 6:50.
 
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