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MA had a 4.2 earthquake off the coast of New Bedford. (Original Post) boston bean Nov 2020 OP
Did you feel it? treestar Nov 2020 #1
Yep and heard it. Twice now in last seven or so years. boston bean Nov 2020 #2
Nah where it happens all the time. Earthquake putty keeps Hortensis Nov 2020 #3
We felt it and heard it. Just shaking. boston bean Nov 2020 #6
:) Nice perking up of a day, right? In California I watched Hortensis Nov 2020 #8
It seems to me that we are having very small one in Florida, Blue_true Nov 2020 #7
details of quake below. AllaN01Bear Nov 2020 #4
You guys are overdue for a massive quake. That was predicted a while Blue_true Nov 2020 #5
Felt it in Rhode Island hack89 Nov 2020 #9
Felt it in Connecticut, but it was the sound that I really noticed. NutmegYankee Nov 2020 #10
Here is an explanation for why this is felt so widely NutmegYankee Nov 2020 #11

treestar

(82,383 posts)
1. Did you feel it?
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 10:38 AM
Nov 2020

Delaware has had 2 very small earthquakes in my lifetime. It's kind of hilarious. Not scary like it might be in California or Alaska.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. Nah where it happens all the time. Earthquake putty keeps
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 10:42 AM
Nov 2020

decoratives on the shelves, and 4.2 doesn't open cupboard doors.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. :) Nice perking up of a day, right? In California I watched
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 11:38 AM
Nov 2020

a big one's waves roll through a block of high-rise apartments. But when I got home and told a friend, it turns out that I'd missed the chance to see the San Gabriel Mountain Range rolling on those waves from my living room. Always regretted that.

Our houses were old California bungalows that had ridden several decades of earthquakes and had no damage. But I've never regretted not experiencing one in a skyscraper, in particular the old masonry ones that are designed to rock on their bases. And do. (!)

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
7. It seems to me that we are having very small one in Florida,
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 11:07 AM
Nov 2020

feels like the ground gently shifting, I can feel it. We have a lot of loose sand and soft rock under us, so that likely mitigates the severity of earthquakes.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
5. You guys are overdue for a massive quake. That was predicted a while
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 11:02 AM
Nov 2020

ago and was expected to happen within 25 years. But, as things are, you live in a wonderful place, quake or no quake.

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)
11. Here is an explanation for why this is felt so widely
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 12:04 PM
Nov 2020


That pink Avalon belt was the bedrock that shook just east of Narragansett Bay. I live on that bedrock in Connecticut and it shook the whole town up despite being many 10s of mile east.
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