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Biggest Earthquake in 18 Years Shakes Up Long Island
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
By Sarah Kate Kramer
A 3.9 magnitude earthquake rocked the New York City region earlier today.
The US Geological Survey says the tremor happened in the Atlantic Ocean, about 80 miles off the coast of Southhampton on Long Island around 10:45 this morning. The earthquake wasn't big enough to do any damage or hurt anyone, and the U.S. Coast guard said there is no threat of a tsunami. It was the biggest earthquake for our area in 18 years.
Neither the Southampton Police Department nor the Chamber of Commerce reported feeling any tremors. But two of WNYC's twitter followers reported feeling it in Brooklyn. Jonathan Berk, an editor, said he felt it while working at home in Ditmas Park. He told WNYC he was standing when he felt the floor move beneath his feet.
"It was a few seconds of mild shaking, not as regular as when a subway passes, and I don't usually feel the subway like that in my apartment."
Berk said it was the first earthquake he'd ever felt, and that it was fun, in retrospect.
Originally posted by edgecrusher2199
Does everyone on this website always go for the worst case scenario?
Originally posted by njl51
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Is this one in the same quake as the one off N.Y.???
Originally posted by njl51
reply to post by Human_Alien
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Is this one in the same quake as the one off N.Y.???
Originally posted by Antoniastar
reply to post by Human_Alien
S & F.
Thank you for posting about this earthquake.
It just so happens that New York is located at one end of a 500-million-year-old San Andreas-style fault", called the "New York-Alabama Lineament" by geologists. The fault was first found in 1978 by magnetic mapping from an aerial perspective. (See link below).
This fault could have nothing to do with the 3.9 earthquake but I won't write it off just yet.
news.discovery.com...
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