Here in York Maine, I have experienced my FIRST earthquake, it took about 30 seconds, and the whole house rumbled and felt like it was wiggling, somewhat unnerving to feel a 200+ year old New England Colonial house “wiggle”
No damage, nothing fell over or broke, it was like having a “Whole house massage kit” hooked up to the house, actually was pretty cool
Yes I know, this wouldn’t even register to Californians, but here in New England, quakes are vanishingly rare
Magnitude 4.6, centered in Hollis Center, Maine, a mere 40 miles away
We’d be like, ‘Oh, that was an earthquake.’ So it would at least be noticed.
I miss earthquakes since I moved away. All we have is a stupid volcano that doesn’t even erupt. (But when we do have a noticeable earthquake, it’s expected to be a big one.)
Yep. Felt it here on the NH seacoast.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000d75b#summary
PG, whereabouts (roughly) in NH did you notice it at, I’m in York Maine, just over the border to Portsmouth NH
Hampton Beach.
There’s a form you can fill out at that link I posted, to rate what it felt like at your location.
FOR SCIENCE!
I felt it over here in Vermont.
I did a double take when I saw Lake Arrowhead, and yet I had not felt it, only being 25 miles away…until I noticed it was Lake Arrowhead, ME and not Lake Arrowhead, CA. Congrats on surviving your first light Moderate earthquake, you guys.
When I was kid in Vermont in the early 70’s, I felt a earthquake that rattled our rickety cabin on Lake Carmi.
I thought the cabin was falling apart.
I think this was the earthquake that I experienced
My wife felt it in Boston.
Anything less than a 6.0 is hardly worth commenting on. 
It’s all relative, the quake that you shrug off as nothing is a big deal in an area with few quakes, OTOH the frigid New England winters, blizzards and NorEasters we shrug off would cause many Sunbelt residents to panic
-30 Fahrenheit for a few weeks, meh, I’ve had worse, heck, I’ve been skiing at -52 Fahrenheit, it was great, had the mountain almost to myself
I felt it in Augusta (where I was at the time).
I didn’t feel it. Then again, I’m in the SF Bay Area, so that makes sense.
Speaking of sense, I’m still trying to figure out what Sony has to do with this…
Seems like that area of the continent is lighting up. Montreal had one, too.
Felt it just south of the NH border in Mass. My first earthquake too (but I was pretty sure that’s what it was even before it made the news.) Sounded a bit like a nor’easter beating against the house.
Interestingly, I filled out a form for the USGS on quake and my memory of the duration seems to be way off. Most people are reporting 10-30 seconds and I thought it was much shorter than that. But I think it took me a while to decide that something odd was happening.
Just a rip/riff on the old "My First Sony"line of kid-friendly electronics back in the late '80’s
No kidding. Even after living in Alaska for a few years, I still panic whenever it snows around here. Earthquakes I can handle. But frozen water falling from the skies? In Southern California? At less than 4000 ft? :eek:
I didn’t. But a friend in south central PA did.
I never get invited to the best earthquakes.
Felt near Derry (next town over, that nobody’s ever heard of). I didn’t believe my wife when she said it was an earthquake. I was thinking an off balance washer/dryer or boiler problem.
My first ever! I have no interest in another, or anything stronger.
FWIW, I’ve never actually seen hail fall either. I’ve been 10 minutes early, or 10 minutes late and seen it on the ground, but never falling where I was at that moment.
We didn’t feel it nine miles north of Boston.
There was a map of where reports had come in abnout the earthquake on TV, and there seemed to be a hisatus around us. They certainly felt it further south in Boston, as this thread itself attests