My second earthquake.

Supposedly, Connecticut gets small tremors every so often. One area noted was the village of Moodus, in the lower Connecticut River valley in Middlesex County.

 

This was my worse so far.. few smaller ones since.. strange experience!

Earthquake South of Torrevieja, Spain - May 11, 2018

 

I thought a truck was coming through the wall, never experienced anything quite like it.. had a few small ones since.
I was told my house is fine, built on a coil so it will move better

 

I grew up in WI and wouldn’t have recognized an earthquake even if all the beer taps were destroyed. I now live on the West Coast and was 10miles from the 6.8 Nisqually quake in 2001. Wow. Ground waves distortion of buildings and liquification.

 

I was in 2 earthquakes when I was in 2nd grade. One was the primary and the other was the aftershock. My house had sliding interior doors that really rattled hard back and forth. Sure felt it hit hard.

 

supposedly we had a 4.0 last week. never felt a thing.

i've supposedly been in 2 or 3 others of similar magnitude, and also never felt anything in any of those. i'm starting to think earthquakes are just a fictitious event that seismographers made up to keep receiving their funding.

 

Heavy Sleeper Would Be My Guess.....OR.....Tripping...And The Earth Was "Moving And Shaking" Anyways.....



Cheers Glen.

 

the last one was supposed to be when i was in a meeting at work. so yeah, heavy sleeper.

 

The most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the lower 48 states.

It was so strong the church bells in Boston's Old North Church (1000 miles away) began sounding.

 

I've only ever been on an earthquake machine at a science building when I was younger.

It was pretty cool. My sisters and I got tossed around everywhere. Had fun.

 

Avoid public restrooms, whether there is an earthquake or not.

 

Whenever there's a significant earthquake somewhere on earth the major tv networks will invariably interview the director at the Weston Observatory

New England Seismic Network Significant Earthquakes

 

You have essentially zero chance of dying in an earthquake anywhere in New England, and even spraining your ankle or serious damage to a building is incredibly unlikely. In Pennsylvania, you have a better chance of dying in a plane crash or winning the lottery.

 

Why don't they name earthquakes?
Its disastericm.

 

Earthquakes are scary. If I was in an earthquake, I would scream!

 

These earthquakes are so slight you are likely to not even notice them if you are walking down the street. I had a roommate in California once who was paranoid about earthquakes and got caught twice on the toilet. He was a real Casper Milktoast Don Knotts type.

 

The Great Boston Earthquake of 1755 nearly leveled the city according to John Adams

It's estimated to have had a magnitude of 6.5

 

Its a logarithmic scale and doesn't account for things like lateral sheering forces in some earthquakes, but 6.5 is where they really start to become destructive and deadly and in general. Boston wasn't prepared at all, with countless rather tall buildings for the time. Six floors was about as tall they got back then, knowing all to well how little it took to knock them down. By modern standards, those buildings had more wood, but where held together with elmer's glue and bailing wire. Six floors was as high as they could safely stack bricks, and they used bricks because fires were all too common.