Did anyone feel it? Any damage or disruptions? Apparently they’re rare in the area, so it has to be a little disorienting.
Here’s some thrilling footage.
How big was it, and where was it centered? I couldn’t get that from the link you posted. I’m not sure what moderate means here.
3.8. Not really much at all unless you’re not used to it.
The Old Ones are stirring.
I felt it in New Hampshire’s southern White Mountains area.
Maybe it’s a time for harvest.
Stranger
Looks like everybody everywhere felt it - there were over 37,500 “felt reports” to the US Geological Service, and I would imagine most residents in Maine/NH/Massachusetts don’t have USGS on their radar the way those of us who live in quake-prone areas do. (I always submit felt reports.) So every report probably represents thousands of people going “whoa! What the ----?”
Although 3.8 magnitude is peanuts for places like Alaska, California, and Hawai’i, my understanding is that smaller quakes are a bigger deal in places like New England because the geology is so different - a 3.8 reverberating through granite feels more intense. Or something - it’s been a long time since I read the book where I’m remembering this from. Corrections welcome if anyone has clearer knowledge!
*golf clap*
Stranger
Didn’t notice it. My wife works in a building Providence and they heard the windows rattle a little.
I was working at my desk at home (just north of Boston) and felt it. I thought it was a heavy truck going by or someone unloading construction materials. The house rattled a bit, but didn’t see anything moving or swaying.
I felt a quake in Boston decades ago, and that is precisely what I thought - “wow, THAT was a big truck that just went by.” Only later did I find out it was an earthquake.
2010-ish, we had just arrived at a rental cabin just outside the Smokies, had a breather before unloading the car when BA-BOOM. Asked my wife, You think that was some big-ass tree just fell over nearby? Found out next day it was an earthquake. In the Smokies? Yanking my chain, you are.
In places like California there are faults everywhere. This dissipates the energy better. East of the Rockies faults are far less common so the waves travel farther. Also the quakes in the East tend to be deeper so that increases the area affected as well.
I was in Southboro, MA (about 23 miles west of Boston), didn’t feel a thing.
Mrs. KCB, at work near Fall River, felt a rumble.
I lived in the South Bay / Silicon Valley for twenty years and the only earthquake I felt was like that. Our run-down apartment building got resulted like that plenty. By the time I realized it was going on too long for that, it was over.
(Googling the appropriate timeframe leads me to believe it was a 4.4 magnitude in February 2001.)
Live in Southern Maine. About 1/2 mile from RR tracks. Mostly clay soils. After heavy rains we might get a very small rumble when a freight goes by.
Yesterday we started with the rumble, then the whole house started mildly shaking, lasted about 20 to 30 seconds. First thought was train derailment, then seconds later Earthquake! Definitely unusual here, first one I’ve felt in 78 years.
It was about 50/50 at work who felt it and who didn’t, just outside of Boston proper. I did not, but I usually do feel them and no one else does or believes me until later it shows up on the news and I get to be like “I told you so”.
I used to work in York County and only twice have I felt really bad about not being there to experience something: the drama, the gossip, the shared experience, the deviation from just another normal day. The earthquake would be one. And the day they busted the house of ill repute about 5, 10 years ago. Man, that day at the office would have been electric with our speculating about clientele.
Ah, you mean the Zumba lady!