Wow...did Connecticut just have a little earthquake?

[Atman]

Anyone else in the Hartford area? Everything just shook with a very low, deep rumble. At first it sounded like jet engine reverse thrusters, except I'm not near an airport that handles big jets. The rolling rumble lasted about 10 seconds, built quickly to it's "loudest," then just kind of faded off and stopped just as quickly...nothing knocked off shelves or anything, but this was a pretty strange sensation I've not experienced before.

Anyway else feel it?

:shrug:

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[Bluebear]

1. See if it registers at this url in a few . . .

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/

[NMDemDist2]

2. not according to these guys

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/recenteqs/

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Ssh. Must be Dick Cheney's escape tunnel.

[maine_raptor]

5. Through Connecticut?

Methinks he made a wrong turn at Albuquerque.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Oh, he made a wrong turn alright.

[droidamus2]

4. Don't think so

I grew up in Northern California and your description does sound like an earthquake but the http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php">National Earthquake Center is not reporting one. They only report 2.5 maginitude or higher but you usually can't even feel earthquakes smaller than that unless you are very near the epicenter.

[CTyankee]

7. It didn't reach New Haven. n/t

[blm]

8. If it's not on the geo-sites then it was likely a very heavy truck. Earthquakes tend to last

a bit longer than than 10 seconds.

After the 94 earthquake in LA I was very sensitive to even the slightest shaking for some time afterwards, and the passing of large trucks was definitely one of the culprits.

[Atman]

14. No, it definitely wasn't a truck

This rumble felt "deep" for lack of a better explanation. Like I said, if I lived closer to Bradley International, I'd chalk it up to a very big jet, but this didn't seem to come from the air, rather from the ground. Does that make sense? Very strange!

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[blm]

15. Sure it makes sense - once you've been through a really big one you realize how

much rumbling goes on every day that previously you just ignored. For me it has been large garage doors in apartment complexes, trucks in mall parking lots, just about everything large and manmade. The aftershocks of a big one continue by the hundreds and thousands for the next months, so you are always trying to discern - anything under a 2.0 you are never really going to feel. Some of the lower rolling ones are nothing to fear, either, but the violent ones are a whole other story - I experienced hundreds of small earthquakes before the Northridge Quake - and that was definitely the most violent shaking experience I have ever felt and it damaged my kneecaps and tendons around my knees. I had serious vertigo for over a year, and still have occasional vertigo and a bum knee 12 years later.

[Atman]

16. I guess that's why I'm reasonably sure it wasn't a truck

I've lived near I-93 in Boston, directly on A-1-A in Florida, and even across the street from railroad tracks. I surfed at the end of the runway at Patrick AFB in Florida for years, with fighters and C5A going so low over our heads we'd often have to go underwater to deaden the sound.

And my furnace is brand new, not even two months old...it barely makes a sound.

That's why this stood out as so unusual. It was actually closest to the rumbling of the space shuttle or Apollo launches from close by, except again, more from the ground instead of air shock waves. We had an small earthquake a few years back when I lived in Western Mass, and there was even a very rare quake in Florida when I lived there. In fact, everyone DID think it was just a rocket launch, because limestone earthquakes are pretty unusual. Hopefully I'll never experience one of the big ones as you describe. That nowhere-to-run, nowhere-to-hide aspect of quakes is what freaks me out. I don't like feeling helpless! LOL!

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[blm]

18. Try finding your glasses @4:30am when everything around you is dark and broken glass

everywhere. Heh - I got laser eye surgery because of that helpless feeling. It sucks.

BTW - you might want to call your local paper or network noon news station and ask them if they heard what it could be.

[hippiechick]

9. It's Godzilla, and she's cold, and mighty pissed off.

:)

[HereSince1628]

10. Check your furnace? The fan on some forced air systems makes

such a noise as it revs up.

[cali]

19. Funny you say that

about 15 years ago I felt just such a rumble, picked up the baby and scooted out of the house because I thought my furnace was about to explode. It actually was an earthquake here in northern Vt, and despite having spent my childhood in southern California and experienced earthquakes many times, it just didn't occur to me that that's what it was.

[uberblonde]

11. They thought there was an earthquake in NJ yesterday...

But it turned out to be "underwater testing" by the Navy. Wonder what it really was?

[malaise]

12. Maybe a plane crashed?

Damn!

[MANative]

13. Nothin' here in Danbury...N/T

[madinmaryland]

17. You sure it wasn't Lieberman throwing a hissyfit, because

no one is listening to him?

[originalpckelly]

20. DING DING DING! We have a winner!

:rofl:

[Gato Moteado]

21. it's god punishing connecticut for electing joe lieberman

nt

[Rainscents]

22. Your description sound like earthquake. Did you feel ground rolling?

You'll know when ground roll... feels weired. It feel like you're on the boat with wave of water hitting the boat.

[Renew Deal]

23. Underground Nucular explosion?

:nuke:

:tinfoilhat:

:evilgrin:

[AngryAmish]

24. Alright, who ate the burrito last night?

[Atman]

25. Some hints, maybe...

About a mile or so up the road a new condo development is being built atop one of New England's infamous granite ledges. During the last week or so they've started posting the "Warning: blasting" signs. My guess is, they blasted the shit out of some ledge this morning. I can still hear/feel the ongoing sensation of the jackhammers and big hydraulic stone smashers. Is as good a guess as any, I suppose. But hell, I'd hate to be one the neighbors up there, if I felt it so much from over a mile away!

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