Southeast New England just had an earthquake

[Harrison]

I felt the rumble earlier but I live near a quarry and passed it off as blasting (although I had a feeling it wasn't, it didn't feel like it usually does)

Scary shit...I wasn't sure until I heard it on the news just now.

[Martrae]

If you can pass it off as nothing then it's not scary.

[Harrison]

The point is it could be a precursor to a more powerful one.

[DangerPaul]

I think this country needs a massive natural catastrophic event to happen. Then right after we can look down on all the other countries in the world for not rushing to our aid. Oh thats right, the government wouldn't do that, instead they would just blow trillions more of US taxpayer's dollars that they pull out of thin air. Bye Finawin, see you in the afterlife

[Diabolik]

I'm a Californian, so I will pull out my big earthquake wang and belittle you all, npnp.

[Arlos]

Indeed. If all it did was rattle a bit, it was a puny one. It's not a real earthquake til you can watch heavy furnature march around the room on its own, while the entire house is doing The Wave. Smaller earthquakes are actually kinda fun. Like a vibrating house, but without having to put 50 cents in.

-Arlos

[Martrae]

Generally, quakes in the east US are nothing.

[Lyion]

I'm a Californian, so I will pull out my big earthquake wang and belittle you all, npnp.

I was on the third floor of the Navsecgroup barracks in Monterey going #2 when the huge 1989 earthquake hit near San Fran. I was close to the epicenter.

Given that building is older than Joan Rivers I expected death while sitting on the pot.

California should be due another big one soon. Preferably while I'm out of state.

[Harrison]

It felt like an explosion for for about a full 2 seconds of it.

[brinstar]

I'm a Californian, so I will pull out my big earthquake wang and belittle you all, npnp.

I was on the third floor of the Navsecgroup barracks in Monterey going #2 when the huge 1989 earthquake hit near San Fran. I was close to the epicenter.

Given that building is older than Joan Rivers I expected death while sitting on the pot.

California should be due another big one soon. Preferably while I'm out of state.

what a terrible way to go

[The Kizzy]

We felt an earthquake once, It cracked the foundation in my house.

[Diekan]

I don't have to worry about many earthquakes.... it's hurricanes I have to deal with - BUT unlike earthquakes - at least I know when the hurricane is supposed to hit.

[Ginzburgh]

I felt no earthquake.

[The Kizzy]

P.S. It felt like a big semi drove by on our road. It was 4.something on the Rictor scale, no big deal, other than cracking my house.

[Diabolik]

One of the easiest ways to die in an earthquake is to run outside like a chicken with its head cut off.

Stay indoors until the shaking stops, then calmly walk outside and check for structural damage and gas leaks. If it's at night, put on shoes (broken glass!) and use a flashlight; you don't know what you might miss. Look around for weirdly dangling power cables.

Get together with your neighbors. Organize a group of the strongest males and then go into the next block and shotgun to death all the males taller than a standard municipal fire hydrant (they are regulation size for that reason). Kidnap all the women and breed with the ones that have comely features. Give the young boys and girls and the older/ugly females to your womenfolk to use as kitchen slaves.

Above all, don't panic! Earthquakes can be scary, but as long as Cthulhu lies dreaming in his home in R'lyeh, they should only be reminders that he is merely snoring and we are to be spared The Time of the Great Old Ones for a few more millenia.

[Martrae]

We had an earthquake in Ohio when I was a kid. Rattled the windows and moved furniture a couple inches. I guess my parents liked the experience because about 6 months later we moved to the LA area.

[Arlos]

One of the biggest earthquakes known to have occured actually happened in the midwest, the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811, in Missouri. Due to the geology of the eastern US, that earthquake was felt and did damage as much as 1000 miles away. The waves created were so violent, it made it look like the Mississippi was flowing backwards for a time.

here's something from an eyewitness:

At first the Mississippi seemed to recede from its banks, and its waters gathering up like a mountain, leaving for the moment many boats, which were here on their way to New Orleans, on bare sand, in which time the poor sailors made their escape from them. It then rising fifteen to twenty feet perpendicularly, and expanding, as it were, at the same moment, the banks were overflowed with the retrogade current, rapid as a torrent - the boats which before had been left on the sand were now torn from their moorings, and suddenly driven up a little creek, at the mouth of which they laid, to the distance in some instances, of nearly a quarter of a mile. The river falling immediately, as rapid as it had risen, receded in its banks again with such violence, that it took with it whole groves of young cotton-wood trees, which ledged its borders. They were broken off which such regularity, in some instances, that persons who had not witnessed the fact, would be difficultly persuaded, that is has not been the work of art.

And here's some facts from the USGS:

The area of strong shaking associated with these shocks is two to three times larger than that of the 1964 Alaska earthquake and 10 times larger than that of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

At the onset of the earthquake the ground rose and fell - bending the trees until their branches intertwined and opening deep cracks in the ground. Landslides swept down the steeper bluffs and hillslides; large areas of land were uplifted; and still larger areas sank and were covered with water that emerged through fissures or craterlets. Huge waves on the Mississippi River overwhelmed many boats and washed others high on the shore. High banks caved and collapsed into the river; sand bars and points of islands gave way; whole islands disappeared. Surface rupturing did not occur, however. The region most seriously affected was characterized by raised or sunken lands, fissures, sinks, sand blows, and large landslides that covered an area of 78,000 - 129,000 square kilometers, extending from Cairo, Illinois, to Memphis, Tennessee, and from Crowleys Ridge to Chickasaw Bluffs, Tennessee.

Although the motion during the first shock was violent at New Madrid, Missouri, it was not as heavy and destructive as that caused by two aftershocks about 6 hours later. Only one life was lost in falling buildings at New Madrid, but chimneys were toppled and log cabins were thrown down as far distant as Cincinnati, Ohio; St. Louis, Missouri; and in many places in Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee

Heh, and people say earthquakes are a California thing.

-Arlos

[mofish]

One of the easiest ways to die in an earthquake is to run outside like a chicken with its head cut off.

Stay indoors until the shaking stops, then calmly walk outside and check for structural damage and gas leaks. If it's at night, put on shoes (broken glass!) and use a flashlight; you don't know what you might miss. Look around for weirdly dangling power cables.

Get together with your neighbors. Organize a group of the strongest males and then go into the next block and shotgun to death all the males taller than a standard municipal fire hydrant (they are regulation size for that reason). Kidnap all the women and breed with the ones that have comely features. Give the young boys and girls and the older/ugly females to your womenfolk to use as kitchen slaves.

Above all, don't panic! Earthquakes can be scary, but as long as Cthulhu lies dreaming in his home in R'lyeh, they should only be reminders that he is merely snoring and we are to be spared The Time of the Great Old Ones for a few more millenia.

Freakin a. yog-sothoth rules.

[Captain Insano]

We had a mini earthquake in Washington about hmmm 10 years ago maybe? It not books off the shelf and shook the house but nothing major.... The weird thing was that about 30 minutes before it happened our dogs and cats were going apeshit the entire time whining and barking and running around. Weird how some animals know that shit it coming.

[mofish]

Yeah I read all the animals in Indonesia fled the coast before the tsunami hit. Some crazy sensory shit goin on there.

[Adivina]

Ignorance is bliss, I learned this morning that although earthquakes are rare around our area Harrison, we live on a fault line ><

[Jimmy Durante]

The Indian Point nuclear power plant is just a few miles away from my house (near the Hudson River). After the first reactor was built in 1976, they discovered it was laying on top of a fault line. For some reason, the natives aren't terribly pleased with that revelation, and you'll see a fair share of "Shut down Indian Point" bumper stickers

[Mop]

I'm a Californian, so I will pull out my big earthquake wang and belittle you all, npnp.

I was on the third floor of the Navsecgroup barracks in Monterey going #2 when the huge 1989 earthquake hit near San Fran. I was close to the epicenter.

Given that building is older than Joan Rivers I expected death while sitting on the pot.

California should be due another big one soon. Preferably while I'm out of state.

I was in science camp 3 miles away from the epicenter in a house on stilts, /stuck in the mountians for 4 days with my class for serious.

[Treehorn]

I think this country needs a massive natural catastrophic event to happen.

My money is on Yellowstone blowing its dome. I hear it's overdue for an eruption, and half of Wyoming should get ejected into the atmosphere when it does. A good time will be had by all np~

[Mudcrush Durtfeet]

The old ones were.
The old ones are.
The old ones will be.

First comes summer, then winter.
But summer comes again!