Several People Report Feeling Earthquake Saturday Morning

Local police, USGS have no reports.

Several people in the area reported feeling an earthquake this morning, but the United States Geological Survey had no reports of any tremors, One person wrote on Twitter “Wow I think #nj just had another #earthquake,” while another wrote “Did we just have another earthquake?!?.” Cranbury resident Ryan Meade reported feeling shaking that lasted about five to 10 seconds, but said it lasted too long to be a truck going by.  “[It was a] light shaking, not quite like what we had a few months back, but noticeable. It moved a few things on my desk,” Meade said.  Cranbury and Hightstown police dispatch said they did not receive any reports of the shaking. The Star Ledger also reported several people throughout the state felt the shaking, …

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NJ Native Experiences Virginia Earthquake Firsthand

Peter Curry, is formerly of Palmyra, NJ. Now he's 30 miles from the earthquake epicenter in Virginia, and he felt it all when it happened.

After a 5.8 earthquake rocked Virginia this afternoon, one former New Jersey resident now living in Virginia, who said he felt his whole house shake for nearly 10 minutes, is still finding it hard to concentrate. "I feel on edge right now," said Pete Curry, who is studying piano at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, about 30 miles from the quake epicenter. "I am feeling hypersensitive to low frequencies. I can feel it when trucks go by on Broad Street, a couple blocks away." Curry is a transplant from Palmyra, NJ, a municipality located in Burlington County. In addition to his university studies, Curry works as an accompanist and assistant director for the Greater Richmond Children's choir, was sitting in his bedroom in Richmond…

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Some Facts About Earthquakes

Earthquakes are not more prevalent than in the past.

Let’s back up first. In the fall of 1985 Gail and I were living in Queens, New York, with our then several-month-old daughter. If I recall the details correctly, we were awakened by a very loud rumbling sound and some moderate rapid shaking that Sunday at 6:30 am. I said to Gail that either a train just went through the basement of our 1893 Victorian home, or the boiler blew up, or we just had an earthquake. I quickly confirmed that neither a train had gone through the basement, nor had the boiler exploded. That left only the possibility of an earthquake. We knew the sounds of the occasional very heavily overloaded construction and excavation trailers bouncing along on New York City’s famously pot-holed and washboard streets. This was not …

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Richard Wolfert

8:25 pm on Friday, April 1, 2011

I'd like to add that with resource #6 in the article above, work your way back to the seismograph image from March 11th by clicking on the "Change Day" button "   more ›