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New England is seismically active :) If you're not aware of it, the tremors can feel like a large passing truck or something like that https://earthquake.usgs.
by xkcd-sucks 1y ago
New England is seismically active :) If you're not aware of it, the tremors can feel like a large passing truck or something like that
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=40.31872,-74.10004&extent=43.62953,-67.55219&range=search&showUSFaults=true&baseLayer=terrain&timeZone=utc&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%22:%7B%22starttime%22:%221900-01-01%2000:00:00%22,%22maxlatitude%22:42.816,%22minlatitude%22:41.2,%22maxlongitude%22:-69.593,%22minlongitude%22:-73.592,%22minmagnitude%22:0,%22orderby%22:%22time%22%7D%7D https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=40.31872...
- dboreham 1y agoThere are even earthquakes you can feel in "Old England". Not often, but I've experienced one. Lived in the BA for a few years and felt many small quakes. Lived in a very seismically active part of Montana for 25 years and felt nothing. YMMV.
- sharksauce 1y agoIndeed -- Mount Desert Island (home of Acadia NP) had a small one just this weekend! And we had a M4.2 one there about twenty years ago when I was living there.
- dekhn 1y agoI grew up near a town called "Moodus" in Connecticut which constantly made noises and had small quakes. But it didn't prepare me for the few small quakes I experienced in the bay area (typically a bunch of car alarms go off and dogs bark, there's a thud, and then a gentle rocking).
- BoorishBears 1y agoNever thought I'd see that town mentioned on Hacker News (or anywhere outside of Moodus)