Earthquake in New Hampshire??

[undergroundpanther]

EXETER, New Hampshire: After people called to report hearing explosions, emergency officials initially thought there had been underground methane gas blasts. But it turns out that New Hampshire actually had three small earthquakes over the weekend.

The tremors caused no damage or injuries.

The state Emergency Management Agency said the quakes were felt Saturday night and Sunday afternoon in the Portsmouth-Exeter area of the northeastern U.S. state.

The U.S. Geological Survey listed two of the quakes as magnitudes 1.4 and 1.9. A magnitude for the third quake was not available.


http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/04/america/NA-GEN-US-New-Hampshire-Quakes.php

[The Straight Story]

1. Global warming

:) sorry, just had to...

[The Inquisitive]

16. that made me cringe

good work hehe.

[soothsayer]

big 6.1 being reported in TX (but not by USGS, just all over the world)

100 miles from crawford I think)

[undergroundpanther]

8. Snort

Not reported by USGS..
Bush awhile back wanted to control what weather gets reported by Noaa and tv weather reporters ,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-09-27-hurricane-report_x.htm
now the USGS too.
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=2748
And the Pentagon is not going to monitor global warming as closely.too..
http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=78&sid=1157524

Denial..People might get hurt because of this fucking denial and control games on government agencies being manipulated by rich pigs in denial.Pisses me off.

[C_U_L8R]

2. It's just gas

all that bloviating at the repub debates

[undergroundpanther]

12. Actually

Big clouds of methane that were leaking up from the ocean floor stunk out New york awhile ago
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/manhattan-smells-like-mercaptan/
and caused birds to fall out of the sky dead.
http://www.ontome.com/?p=61

[FrenchieCat]

18. That's what my nose reported.....

lotsa gas and fumes eminating from 9 podiums.....with only one with a can of Fabreeze to fight off the fumes and following stench; a gastly proposition for sure!

[and-justice-for-all]

3. Earthquakas should be expected, everywhere...

..The Earth is not dormat, its highly active and forever changing. In a few million years the landscape of this planet well be unrecognizable. I live in Indiana, we have even had quakes here..Just wait, when Yellowstone's volcano lets loose, that will be one helluvashow!!

[undergroundpanther]

6. Maybe

But the friggin ash will blow right where I live,carried on the jet stream right to my area....Wonderful.

[MonkeyFunk]

7. LOL

chances are you'll be long gone before Yellowstone goes off. And if it does... well, ash will be the least of your worries.

[undergroundpanther]

9. I know.

But hey gotta die sometime might as well go out with a bang.

[berni_mccoy]

4. Lately, we've had Extreme Moisture with Hot/Cold swings

With all that granite, expanding/contracting with huge amounts of water when we've had year-after-year of drought.. I'm not surprised the ground is making noise.

[Davis_X_Machina]

5. There are smallish quakes all over northern NE...

...on a regular basis, and one big enough to break china and topple the odd chimney every decade or so, especially up Bangor way.

[rucky]

10. If it's below a 4, I don't wanna hear about it.

<-------- former Californian

[undergroundpanther]

13. the location is what bugged me

[napi21]

11. Naw, the tremmors were caused by the invasion of Pubs for the debate!

You can't possibly have that much BS decend on such a small State without reprocussions!

[WilliamPitt]

14. New England is riddled with fault lines.

[lynne]

22. There are 13 faults in New Hampshire -

- with quakes recorded as early as 1727. They're just not as frequent or as severe as quakes on the west coast. More info at:
http://www.des.nh.gov/factsheets/geo/geo-3.htm

[deadcenter]

15. faults on the east coast

Trace the Appalachian Mountains from New England to Georgia and you have a pretty good idea of where the fault lines run along the east coast. Small quakes are good, 1.4 and 1.9 richter scale quakes are, generally, below the level of human perception, usually in the 3.0 to 3.5 range.

Some more info here:

http://www2.bc.edu/~kafka/Why_Quakes/why_quakes.html

[FourScore]

17. Who feels a 1.4 earthquake?

Anything below a 3.5 isn't even really noticable. Small quakes happen multiple times a day all across California and they never even get noticed. This is a wierd story.

[FrenchieCat]

19. No us in the S.F. Bay Area, surely! n/t

[undergroundpanther]

20. I thought it was weird too

[SoCalDem]

21. Just Mother Nature trying to shrug us off her back.. n/t

[zanne]

23. We've had little earthquakes here before....

Once, in the 80's, I was in a parking lot when suddenly the ground vibrated so much under my feet that I lost my footing. It lasted about 30 seconds. No biggie.