3.8 Earthquake in New England. Who here has experienced an earthquake?

[saturdaysarebetter]

Who here has experienced an earthquake? It happens so fast, what do you do? Make sure nothing is above you to fall on you? Get under something strong like a heavy table? Stand in a doorway?

Earthquake with 3.8 magnitude rattles Maine, Boston on Atlantic coast

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the Northeast early Monday — shaking buildings and homes along the Atlantic coast, the United States Geological Survey said. The quake, which struck at 10:22…

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[Steve JG]

Who here has experienced an earthquake? It happens so fast, what do you do? Make sure nothing is above you to fall on you? Get under something strong like a heavy table? Stand in a doorway?

Earthquake with 3.8 magnitude rattles Maine, Boston on Atlantic coast

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the Northeast early Monday — shaking buildings and homes along the Atlantic coast, the United States Geological Survey said. The quake, which struck at 10:22…

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Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, during World Series. was in my car driving to pick up wife after work. Road was undulating pretty severely and could not drive. Thought I had broken axel initially. Power was out for couple days. TGar, my wife and I grilled out, drank mass quantities of wine and hooted and hollered with every aftershock along with every one else in my complex.

 

[psuro]

Earthquake through the Princeton, NJ area circa....2010?

 

[Nits1989]

We have occasional mild ones in the Buffalo area. I felt a mild one in my office which vibrated the floor a little. There was also a 3.8 in 2023 that I felt at home before work. It startled me with the sound and shaking in my home. But there was no damage. There’s a fault line around here.

 

[rem524]

I felt the Maine earthquake this morning. I think it’s the first one I’ve noticed in this area.

The first earthquake I ever felt was in Tokyo and I was in a high-rise, modern hotel. The curtains that hung from the ceiling to the floor started to sway. It started with the floor vibrating and noise in the hallway and lasted around 30-45 seconds. I was on an upper floor (40-50th floor) so there was no way I was getting out if it got worse. We had a couple of aftershocks the next day.

 

[BobPSU92]

Who here has experienced an earthquake? It happens so fast, what do you do? Make sure nothing is above you to fall on you? Get under something strong like a heavy table? Stand in a doorway?

Earthquake with 3.8 magnitude rattles Maine, Boston on Atlantic coast

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the Northeast early Monday — shaking buildings and homes along the Atlantic coast, the United States Geological Survey said. The quake, which struck at 10:22…

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This is what we’re up against.

 

[Bison13]

We’ve had a few of them here in Maryland over the last couple years. I remember about 15 or so years ago we had one on the first day of school. I was teaching in a portable classroom back then. It was basically a double wide classroom sitting on cinderblocks With a ramp up to the door. I think we had five or six of those type of classrooms outside at the time and for the next week all of us had to share the auditorium and teach with little rolling chalkboards in a section of the auditorium while they figured out if we could go back into the classrooms.

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

Hi

We’ve had a few of them here in Maryland over the last couple years. I remember about 15 or so years ago we had one on the first day of school. I was teaching in a portable classroom back then. It was basically a double wide classroom sitting on cinderblocks With a ramp up to the door. I think we had five or six of those type of classrooms outside at the time and for the next week all of us had to share the auditorium and teach with little rolling chalkboards in a section of the auditorium while they figured out if we could go back into the classrooms.

Every month after some kielbasa in Busch’s Baked Beans, 3-4 Stella’s! Major shakeage!

 

[Woodpecker]

Felt one in Guatemala in the early 1990s that made swag lamps sway and bed shake a little and I felt the 5.8 Virginia quake of 2011 when I was on vacation in Bethany Beach. Oddly we had to leave our rental shortly thereafter not because of the earthquake but rather for an impending hurricane.

 

[Calabrin]

Get them pretty frequently here in LA.

Mostly ~4-5. The first few times, it's unsettling. But once you get used to it, it's kinda cool.

These days I don't pause the PS5 for anything under 6.0

It is truly like the scene from LA Story (Steve Martin) where they're at brunch and a quake hits and no one cares.

 

[manatree]

Back in August 2011, I was eating my lunch when State College caught the waves from the Piedmont Virginia quake. I had just finished eating a new type of chile from my garden and I started feeling dizzy and things on my desk started to move. I honestly thought I was having an allergic or hallucinogenic response to the pepper until my boss stuck her head into my office and said that it was an earthquake. Freaked me out.

Hopefully, once is enough.

 

[s1uggo72]

We just had a 3.3 hit here in Huntington wv about 6 miles from the epicenter. Weird as it was more of an explosion than anything else we looked around the house for a tree falling etc. we went outside to check on the neighbors. But nothing really

Magnitude 3.3 earthquake felt near Huntington - WV MetroNews

The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake was felt at around 4:40 Monday.

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[JerseyLion]

 

[Moogy]

Didn't feel a thing here in Boston metro. Disappointing. I've had multiple run-ins with tornadoes around here ... so why not bring on all the natural disasters that are out of place around these parts?

 

[CDLionFL]

4 years ago, I was in La Quinta, CA for work and I'm laying in bed watching TV in my hotel room and all of a sudden, it felt like I was on a water bed. Only lasted about 10 seconds and after trying to figure out WTF, I realized that it was probably an earthquake. Got it confirmed later that night on the Geological Survey website with a sub 3.0 one just over the mountain in Riverside. I can't imagine feeling something like what happened in 89.

 

[DaytonRickster]

Who here has experienced an earthquake? It happens so fast, what do you do? Make sure nothing is above you to fall on you? Get under something strong like a heavy table? Stand in a doorway?

Earthquake with 3.8 magnitude rattles Maine, Boston on Atlantic coast

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the Northeast early Monday — shaking buildings and homes along the Atlantic coast, the United States Geological Survey said. The quake, which struck at 10:22…

nypost.com

Our family experienced an 8.2 magnitude earthquake on Guam while stationed there in the 90s. It was wild. They often had tremors but that was the only big one we experienced during our two years on island. Also went through two major typhoons in that two years.

 

[Psu00]

 

[Psu00]

 

[BriantheLion]

I had just gotten out of my car in a parking garage, and I felt the garage shake…initially, I passed it off as another car passing by…. But as I was walking away I realized “wait, it’s the OTHER garage that does that!”… When I got into the building, everyone was talking about feeling it up there!

 

[kgilbert78]

I did, quite a number of years ago in Columbus, must have been ca. 1980? I was in my dorm room, up on the 10th floor, reading on my bed, when the bed started to shake for a few seconds. Being up so high made it a bit more noticeable. My then GF was driving at the time on the interstate and swore she felt it too. Supposedly the epicenter was in KY and was a 5.3 magnitude one.

 

[SoCalLion]

Get them pretty frequently here in LA.

Mostly ~4-5. The first few times, it's unsettling. But once you get used to it, it's kinda cool.

These days I don't pause the PS5 for anything under 6.0

It is truly like the scene from LA Story (Steve Martin) where they're at brunch and a quake hits and no one cares.

I'm in SoCal too. I think I notice 2-3 a year.

I have that ShakeAlert app on my phone --- which will go off for a 4.5+ quake.

Weirdly enough, there were TWO earthquakes since August that set off my phone, but I didn't feel anything. One of them was when I was in office pretty early (7:25 AM). My coworker 25 feet away came running in a minute later and thought it might be a 6.0-6.5 given how much his office shook. It was actually a 4.7.

They can be weird that way, in how people in the same building can have much different experiences.

 

[BostonNit]

Was in the Bay area shortly after the world series quake, and was on a sailing tour. I asked the captain if he was at sea during the quake and he said he was. He shared that you can feel a quake at sea just as easily as on shore, which surprised me. He said his boat was vibrating and at first he thought he'd run around then realized what it was.

Just thought that was interesting.

 

[LionsAndBears]

I was in the middle of a job interview when a small earthquake hit Reading in 2010. It was 2.something. I was on the 4th floor when it hit and everything in the room swayed back and forth.

I was lucky enough to have missed the 4.6 earthquake we had here in 1994 because I was away at school.

 

[OaktonDave]

Who here has experienced an earthquake? It happens so fast, what do you do? Make sure nothing is above you to fall on you? Get under something strong like a heavy table? Stand in a doorway?

Earthquake with 3.8 magnitude rattles Maine, Boston on Atlantic coast

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the Northeast early Monday — shaking buildings and homes along the Atlantic coast, the United States Geological Survey said. The quake, which struck at 10:22…

nypost.com

I went through one in Santiago, Chile several years ago. The people in the office I was visiting weren't very fazed, but I quietly moved to a doorway until it was over. My wife is from Northern California, so she been through several. When we had one in Virginia, she didn't think anything of it until she remembered where she was and that an earthquake was not normal. Ironically, I was in CA when it happened.

 

[Tgar]

Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, during World Series. was in my car driving to pick up wife after work. Road was undulating pretty severely and could not drive. Thought I had broken axel initially. Power was out for couple days. TGar, my wife and I grilled out, drank mass quantities of wine and hooted and hollered with every aftershock along with every one else in my complex.

That was incredible. Tgar was three miles from the epicenter in a brand new convention center built to withstand the big one. When the earthquake hit that afternoon, it was like a freight train came rolling under the great hall space while the building responded by floating above it. It was crazy. Walked outside and the water in the fountain was just emptying into the streets in waves.

 

[Tgar]

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Yeah, Airports in Philly and NYC area shut down. No connecting flight to State College. Tgar had to drive home at two in the morning from Newark. Started the day in Orlando. Took 20 hours to completes the trip.

 

[Nitt1300]

I remember one when I was a kid living in Maine- things didn't really shake, it was just a loud "BOOM". I went though one in MA years later, and that one shook a bit, with no "boom"

I wonder if the difference was in the granite we sit on near the coast transmitting the shock differently?.