Earthquake near Wolfeboro

[Jabonie]

Anyone feel it? Magnitude 2.2, just after midnight:

https://www.wmur.com/article/earthqu...eboro/40085879

[patman]

Oh yeah, we felt it...and heard it. BOOM! Sounded like something exploded. I understand there were reports as far away as Sanford about it.

[garysanfran]

A little cocktail shaker...Would hardly rattle your ice cubes!

[Rockslider]

It gave our house a pretty good shake, and since everyone else in the neighborhood seems to turn the lights out by 9:00 I figured I might be the only one around who noticed it. I was relieved when my wife woke me up this morning to tell me that WMUR was reporting an earthquake. At least now she would believe me........

[patman]

For us it wasn't so much the vibration as the noise. Sounded like a lightning strike right outside the window. Very loud...

And as it happens, just felt another tremor a minute ago. Just a nudge, and very little noise this time.

[jbolty]

Many years ago, like 1982 or so, I traveled to California for the first time. Right before then there was a minor earthquake in NH that had made the news.

Hotel clerk in Los Angeles: "You're from NH. Isn't that where they have all the earthquakes?"

[garysanfran]

In the last seven days, the San Francisco Bay Area has had five quakes with three over a 2.0. We have about one of those every day.

Rare in Wolfeboro, common in San Fran.

Loma Prieta, 1989, was an experience I will never forget. You could not stand in a room during that thing. I saw an office worker, on a chair with wheels, get hurled across a 20' room and slammed into a wall.

[Descant]

Originally Posted by garysanfran

In the last seven days, the San Francisco Bay Area has had five quakes with three over a 2.0. We have about one of those every day.

Rare in Wolfeboro, common in San Fran.

Loma Prieta, 1989, was an experience I will never forget. You could not stand in a room during that thing. I saw an office worker, on a chair with wheels, get hurled across a 20' room and slammed into a wall.

Nothing to brag about, in my book. My B-in-law, your neighbor of sorts, paid a lot of $$$ to "quake proof" his home, and he could still be part of a major fire. They visit us, we don't visit them.

[garysanfran]

Originally Posted by Descant

Nothing to brag about, in my book. My B-in-law, your neighbor of sorts, paid a lot of $$$ to "quake proof" his home, and he could still be part of a major fire. They visit us, we don't visit them.

I was bragging???

I don't like the damn things!!!

[Mr. V]

"Oh, honey," purred the wife, turning to her husband in bed "I felt the earth move."

"That wasn't me, sweetie, it was Mother Nature."