Earthquake

[LibertyLover]

My husband called around 11 am and said that his daughter who lives in Dundalk and was home sick with the 'flu called him to report feeling a small earthquake. According to her there was a 2.0 quake with an epicenter just off the north tip of Kent Island. It was about 6 miles down. Personally I'd call it a tremor. Husband didn't feel anything in Annapolis, but he was running around trying to get out the door on a shopping trip with the toddler.

[demnan]

1. Here's a link

http://www.wtopnews.com/?sid=428096&nid=25

[whistle]

2. What does a 2.0 earthquake feel like, I wonder?

[Betsy Ross]

3. Ho hum. In California 2.0 quakes don't even make the evening news. n/t

[Warpy]

4. The ones in Boston

felt sort of like standing on the sidewalk when a gravel truck rumbles past. It was barely noticeable, the type of thing that would cause forks to pause in midair and a "What the hell was THAT?" expression on the face of a diner for about a second and a half.

[whistle]

6. Of course if you live where such minor quakes almost never...

...happen, that would be significant. Would such a tremor in California be a warning of something major about to happen?

[Igel]

5. Imagine a child on a tricycle going over a crack on a sidewalk

about 5 miles from where you're sitting. Assuming the child is small, very small.

2.0? On Kent Island? And somebody in Dundalk felt it? I wonder if my parents' old house in Edgemere is still standing?

[Renew Deal]

7. Here it is.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/ld1015030.htm

[ptompkins]

8. I thought I felt something

I thought I felt something.. but then I was in a tall building at the time and thought that maybe I had just lost my balance... later I heard it was a quake..