Earthquake!

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<p>We don’t get these very often in New England!</p>

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<p>[M4.0</a> - 6km WSW of Hollis Center, Maine 2012-10-16 23:12:22 UTC](<a href=“http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000d75b#summary]M4.0”>http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000d75b#summary)</p>

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<p>Looks like the CC clock gremlin is mixing up the order of the posts…again. </p>

<p>Maine really doesn’t get earthquakes very often!</p>

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<p>I missed another one. :(</p>

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<p>Maine!</p>

<p>I was at my daughter’s piano lesson in downtown Portland, in an apartment building constructed in the 1800s. I heard a rumble and the old windows started shaking - I thought it was either an explosion or a large train nearby. The teacher didn’t react at all, so I didn’t think anything of it. Then on Facebook, I saw the news. I asked DD and the teacher if they’d noticed it. DD had, but the teacher was so engrossed in the lesson that he didn’t feel a thing!</p>

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<p>Felt it pretty strongly west of Boston. A big jolt, then a series of shudders that lasted about 10 seconds. Knocked a few objets off shelves. I grew up in the SF bay area so I’m used to earthquakes but in the 20 plus years I’ve lived in New England we’ve had nothing until the last year when we’ve had two big enough to be hard to miss.</p>

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<p>I totally missed that last one. I was at work walking down the hall and when I walked by into my office, everyone else had felt it and I just hadn’t noticed.</p>

<p>This I felt as kind of tremor through the apartment, although nothing fell. I live in a basement apartment, so that might affect how an earthquake comes through. Boston area.</p>

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<p>They just mentioned it on a local news blurb so some people in my viewing area (probably in the berkshires) must have felt something. Neither DH or I did but I also missed the last one. </p>

<p>DS is driving home from Maine as I write this and was probably near Worcester. I’ll have to ask if they felt anything.</p>

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<p>I felt it in a suburb of Boston, as did my kids in 3 different parts of the house. Only the second earthquake I’ve ever felt in New England although I’ve lived here almost all my life.</p>

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<p>Didn’t feel it in VT, though we have had a few small ones in the many years I’ve lived here.</p>

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<p>Things to know.
<a href=“http://www.earthquakecountry.info/downloads/ShakeOut_Earthquake_Guide_Disabilities_AFN.pdf[/url]”>http://www.earthquakecountry.info/downloads/ShakeOut_Earthquake_Guide_Disabilities_AFN.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
We are having a drill Thursday.
<a href=“http://shakeout.org/washington/[/url]”>http://shakeout.org/washington/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I felt it in southern NH. I thought it was either rumbling thunder or a large truck nearby. Only when a news alert flashed across the TV did I realize it was an earthquake.</p>

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<p>It felt/sounded like a freight train going under the house here. But quite short. Someone I know who lives in NH described it as “scary,” so it must have been stronger there, although I probably live closer to the epicenter.</p>

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<p>Obviously didn’t feel it in Pittsburgh, but by an odd coincidence, I’m in the middle of Dennis Smith’s book “San Francisco is Burning: The untold story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire” …</p>

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<p>Didn’t feel it in CT and was surprised that S1 in Cambridge, MA said he didn’t feel it either.</p>

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<p>^funny that your S in Cambridge didn’t feel it, I live south of Boston and felt it. Perhaps he was distracted and didn’t notice it.</p>

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<p>I live 40 miles west of Boston and didn’t feel a thing, although friends in town said that they did notice. Learned about the quake when I turned on the tv to watch the Presidential debate and noticed headlines at the bottom of the screen saying that there had been a hurricane.</p>

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<p>I got a text from my daughter last night about the earthquake. She was a little freaked out, funny because she has been through several cat 4 hurricanes. 4 armed robberies, 2 bodies in the Charles and now an earthquake, her mom is a little freaked out, lol!</p>

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<p>Looks like there was a 3.2 in Oklahoma today too.</p>

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<p>I hear you fishymom. Those bodies in the Charles can scare the bejesus out of you.</p>