just had a earthquake

[AttyPops]

Tectonic Summary
Earthquakes in New England
New England

People in New England, and in its geological extension southward through Long Island, have felt small earthquakes and suffered damage from infrequent larger ones since colonial times. Moderately damaging earthquakes strike somewhere in the region every few decades, and smaller earthquakes are felt roughly twice a year. The Boston area was damaged three times within 28 years in the middle 1700's, and New York City was damaged in 1737 and 1884. The largest known New England earthquakes occurred in 1638 (magnitude 6.5) in Vermont or New Hampshire, and in 1755 (magnitude 5.8) offshore from Cape Ann northeast of Boston. The Cape Ann earthquake caused severe damage to the Boston waterfront. The most recent New England earthquake to cause moderate damage occurred in 1940 (magnitude 5.6) in central New Hampshire.

Earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S., although less frequent than in the western U.S., are typically felt over a much broader region. East of the Rockies, an earthquake can be felt over an area as much as ten times larger than a similar magnitude earthquake on the west coast. A magnitude 4.0 eastern U.S. earthquake typically can be felt at many places as far as 100 km (60 mi) from where it occurred, and it infrequently causes damage near its source. A magnitude 5.5 eastern U.S. earthquake usually can be felt as far as 500 km (300 mi) from where it occurred, and sometimes causes damage as far away as 40 km (25 mi).
Faults

Earthquakes everywhere occur on faults within bedrock, usually miles deep, although some New England earthquakes occur at shallower depths. Most of New England's and Long Island's bedrock was assembled as continents collided to form a supercontinent 500-300 million years ago, raising the northern Appalachian Mountains. The rest of the bedrock formed when the supercontinent rifted apart 200 million years ago to form what are now the northeastern U.S., the Atlantic Ocean, and Europe.

At well-studied plate boundaries like the San Andreas fault system in California, often scientists can determine the name of the specific fault that is responsible for an earthquake. In contrast, east of the Rocky Mountains this is rarely the case. New England and Long Island are far from the nearest plate boundaries, which are in the center of the Atlantic Ocean and in the Caribbean Sea. New England is laced with known faults but numerous smaller or deeply buried faults remain undetected. Even the known faults are poorly located at the depths of most earthquakes. Accordingly, few, if any, earthquakes in New England can be linked to named faults. It is difficult to determine if a known fault is still active and could slip and cause an earthquake. As in most other areas east of the Rockies, the best guide to earthquake hazards in New England and Long Island is the earthquakes themselves.

Were they fracking in the 1700's? (sorry 36...had ta. But.... I do feel sorry for people that can light their tap water on fire...)

 

[FranC]

I would say not..........

 

[JessyDrastic]

we didn't feel anything on the South Shore but tons of friends & family on my FB all were like, "umm, ... what the ___ was that..?!?!?!"


also, lol.. fruckin' frackin'..!

 

[PhreakySTS9]

fracking...

Fraking*

Sorry, I don't much care for the old Battlestar Galactica. Re-Imagined series ...!! My buddy at work says frak all the time but still hasn't seen BSG (a bunch of his buddies say it a lot apparently and it's creeped into his vocab) and every time he says it I give him a rash of %*&# about not watching it yet.

(They spell it frack on the old one i've heard and frak on the new one)

 

[DR. Schwartz]

I was living in Missouri when they had a little one couple of years back. Scary stuff. Especially in MO the last time they had a big one it rang bells in Philly, and I was practically on top of the fault line.

 

[danimal40]

earthquake...lol the stopnshop trucks going by every ten mins shake my house more then that did......yep vape gear was ok

 

[PosingOwl]

Glad that everyone is ok. I am from Florida and lived in Southern Mississippi. We are used to hurricanes and tornados. My first earthquake was in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2005, the 7.6 or something that hit Pakistan. We were like a few hundred miles away and all our armored humvees were shaking like crazy. I was what the ....... was that. LOL. We knew what it was but was unprepared what it would have felt like.

 

[DC2]

4.6? How cute!

 

[edsmith]

it knocked down 6 pictures off the wall and some boxes off a shelf,also a free standing trellis.my wife was at a church meeting in the basement,they thought the furnace blew up. she had never been in a earthquake before.

 

[cruizydude]

Gota agree 4.6 is just a little tickle...down here in New Zealand theres earthquakes all the time...one 7.6 wiped out half the city of Christchurch just over a year ago.. pretty used to this little island shaking....pretty scary if you never experienced a decent shake. Dam theres 52 volcanoes in the North Island !!!!

 

[DreamingButterfly81]

I was in elementary school in Berkeley, CA for the quake in 89, ever since then I've felt a few smaller ones in other places I've lived and I just don't have much of a reaction anymore. The entire town will be buzzing over some quake and it gets little more than a passing thought from me.
That being said unless we got really rocked I wouldn't be too concerned about my vape gear simply because of how and where its stored lol. However I have considered purchasing an additional back up kit for my overall home emergency kit, ya know, the supplies I'd grab if I needed to evacuate or something. Prolly not a bad idea. Besides, I can never have too much vape gear LOL

 

[blondeambition3]

we just had a 4.6 earthquake, my vaping gear is safe. I was born and raised in calif. so earthquakes don't scare me, but these folks in maine who don"t get them, it scares the c--p out of them.

Glad you & your vaping gear are OK. I experienced a small quake in OHIO once.... everything on the basement walls was swinging back & forth... thought a Tornado had leveled the house.... it was quite terrifying.