EARTH QUAKE

[Rowski]

Pretty suprising! Wife grabbed the baby, woke me up asked what to do. I wasn't sure what was going on at the time. Then it stopped. Once we all calmed down and and put 1 and 1 together... earthquake. We did have a similar earthquake a few years ago.

I tell you one thing, being on percocet, getting woke by your scared wife holding our 4 month old baby, hearing things rattling and shaking.... really make your heart rate go up, kinda felt like a dream or something. I normal don't do the percocet thing but got burnt at work yesterday late afternoon. Second degree burn on the tops of both my hands, most of my left ear, part of my right. First degree burns on my left side of my face. Percocet does make the pain go way. I tried not taking after the earthquake thing but pain was too much.

Harv, you can keep them out there. I stay with the bitter cold and snow storms. So what should you do for safety? Get under a table?

Has anybody heard of damage from this northeastern earthquake? It was pretty high on the scale.

 

[Bird]

Sorry to hear about the burns, Derek. I think burns may be the most painful injuries you can get; or they have been for me anyway.

 

[rancar]

Yes, I felt it in Cambridge, New York. Thought it was first my tennant farmer rolling up the driveway with his JD4440 ag tractor. But, then windows started shaking and glasses rattled in the kitchen cupboards. No visible damage....but dang, this was a bit exciting. My first real earthquake that I actually felt. Hope no one out there sustained any injuries or serious damage to their properties.

 

[gordon]

Ditto what Bird said Derek. Burns really are no fun. I had to get skin grafts on both my right and left arms from work. NO fun at all. Hot steel got the better of me a few years back.

How in the heck did ya do that a backfire?

Hope your feeling better
Gordon

 

[RoyJackson]

Has anybody heard of damage from this northeastern earthquake? It was pretty high on the scale.

It was 5.1 to 5.5 on the Richter scale.

Looks like some damage around the epicenter (pic is from CNN).
I'm just SE of York, PA. We didn't feel a thing, but CNN said it was felt as far south as Baltimore, MD.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

I felt it this morning and I am a couple miles from lake Erie and the PA border in the farthest corner of NY. At the time we had thunderstorms so we thought it was just a loud thunder till we started watching the news and seen it was an earthquake. First one I have ever felt but it did shake things pretty good for about 10 seconds. I haven't heard of any damage so hopefully everyone is ok. Take care and sorry to hear you slopped some of your coffee.

 

[Mark_in_NH]

No damage in NH that I am aware of, and haven't really heard anything on the radio.
I was sitting in one of the local resteraunts where I go every morning at 6:00 am to gather and solve some of the worlds problems and create a few new ones. Everything just started shaking like things do when your washing machine is out of balance. Nobody in the resteraunt really gave it a second thought, A few of us went, Hmmm, earthquake and then went back to drinking coffee.
Just another day in New England /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Mark_in_NH]

Earthquake Bulletin from the USGS, NEIC
<A target="_blank" HREF=http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_deam.html>http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_deam.html</A>
The following is a release by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center: A moderate earthquake occurred about 15 miles southwest of Plattsburgh, New York at 4:50 AM MDT, Apr 20, 2002 (6:50 AM EDT in New York). The magnitude and location may be revised when additional data and further analysis results are available. The earthquake was felt from Cleveland, Ohio to Maine and Baltimore, Maryland. A bridge was damaged at Jay, there was road damage at Keeseville and a chimney was damaged at Lake Placid.

 

[Bird]

Very interesting site, Mark. Glad to see I'm in one of the least hazardous areas for earthquakes. Now if the tornadoes, wind, hail, and lightning don't get us . . ../w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[Thomas]

Thanks for the info Mark.

Heck your better than our local news.