Jersey Quake

[west milly Tom]

So a 2.9 magnitude hit Morris County New Jersey. Weird.

[Friday]

So a 2.9 magnitude hit Morris County New Jersey. Weird.

when?

[ecobag2]

awesome. I thought NJ's trade was worrying about cancer - no real hurricanes, tornadoes or quakes.

It's all over Jersey.

Suck it.

Glad I moved.

[Friday]

ok here is one story i found since WMT was too lazy... :bye:

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212205053.shtml

[Friday]

and here is the web report from the paper my friend is editor of:

http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20090202/UPDATES01/302020001

[led37zep]

Not to take away from anything....

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b354/led37zep/California_Quakes.jpg

[Friday]

i don't think you are taking away... but here in NJ we are not used to getting earthquakes.
it's the norm out in CA... not so much here.

but thanks for playing!!

[Crippler]

My brother & I live in Denville, about 2 blocks up behind the train station. When this was happening (it seemed to last all of 10 seconds), it sounded like someone moving a large piece of furniture across the floor upstairs.

Then when I felt the ground rumble just a little and realized it wasn't coming from upstairs, added to the sound it was making, I thought for a second that maybe the train had derailed. Not to be a Doomsday-er, but even as close as we are to the station we rarely hear the trains as they come & go.

Once it stopped & we saw no emergency activity down by the station out of our front window, we both kinda shrugged our shoulders & didn't think much of it. Then our sister (who's about 2 miles away at our parents' house) sent a text & asked "did you guys feel that?" She just came back from a few weeks visiting friends in California & her first thought was quake. And it didn't take long to find a story to confirm it on the net.

Crazy shit for Jersey.

Google Maps - location of Jersey Mini-quake (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.8697+-74.5222(M3.0+-+GREATER+NEW+YORK+AREA%2C+NEW+JERSEY+-+2009+February+03++03%3A34%3A19+UTC)&ll=40.8697,-74.5222&spn=2,2&f=d&t=h&hl=e)

[ToiletCrusher]

Earthquake?? Earthquake?? It's over Devils. Even nature is out to get you!!!

[~Katja~]

i don't think you are taking away... but here in NJ we are not used to getting earthquakes.
it's the norm out in CA... not so much here.

but thanks for playing!!

I have heard of them in Jersey almost once a year maybe every other since I moved here.
They are very small but common.
In Cali they are absolutely more expected.
These are the regions they are common in NJ
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/new_jersey/images/seismicity.gif


2003 was one of the last larger ones with 3.8
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2003/eq_030826/

[Thebazile78]

When I heard about this on the radio this morning, the first thing I thought of was the Ramapo Fault.

The second thing I thought of was how big of a deal it was when we had one in my hometown ... 23 years ago. Yes, I was in the 2nd grade the last time it was a big deal. And I'd slept right through it.

[Don Stugots]

I am not buying it. I think they are testing some sort of earthquake device at the arsenal over there.

[Thebazile78]

I am not buying it. I think they are testing some sort of earthquake device at the arsenal over there.

I didn't think they did anything other than host weddings at the Picatinny Arsenal.

[Don Stugots]

That is what they want you to think. Haven't we learned anything from the X-files?

(Seriously, they do some R&D for urban assault weapons there)

[west milly Tom]

Haha, ya I totally bailed. I fell asleep after Flea's CBS performance lulled me. Thanks for calling me out though, you're quickly becoming my favorite poster. :bye:

[ToiletCrusher]

Haha, ya I totally bailed. I fell asleep after Flea's CBS performance lulled me. Thanks for calling me out though, you're quickly becoming my favorite poster. :bye:

lucky for you there is enough jersey pride and hate to keep this thread alive!

[Death Metal Moe]

We're on a very inactive fault line. We get little tremors here and there, it's no big deal really.

I didn't even notice it and I'm pretty close to the epicenter.

[Furtherman]

I'm heading for the hills. Good thing I was going there anyway.

[Thebazile78]

But the hills are where the quake took place, silly.

[Furtherman]

But the hills are where the quake took place, silly.

*SLAMS ON BRAKES*

[Death Metal Moe]

*SLAMS ON BRAKES*

QUICK! To the beach! There's never any problems there.

http://www.chemtrails911.com/docs/Former%20Naval%20Weapons%20Lab%20Physicist%20and%2 0Weather%20Modification%20Expert%20Reveals%20That% 20Government%20knows%20All%20About%20How%20to%20Co ntrol%20Hurricanes_files/141005hurricane.jpg

....oh wait.

[Thebazile78]

Kansas, then.


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Then again ....

http://earthscience.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/tornado.jpg?w=258&h=193


... maybe not.

[boosterp]

So is Jersey the new California?

[Furtherman]

I've got some Pennsylvania beach-front property for sale!

[AngelAmy]

So is Jersey the new California?

without the awesome weather and palm trees :(

[west milly Tom]

without the awesome weather and palm trees :(

With better people, teams, food, comics..

[9mileskid]

i'm in dover and it shook the house.felt the same as when a natural gas plant exploded in newton

[topless_mike]

maybe it was a ufo crashing..

http://wcbstv.com/local/strange.lights.ufo.2.901376.html


hey, you never know...

[Crossweird]

Felt a rumble this morning in Oldwick (Hunterdon Cty).

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/ld1025772.php

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/ld/1025772/us/ld1025772_ciim.jpg