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xkcd-sucks | 5 months ago

New England is seismically active :) If you're not aware of it, the tremors can feel like a large passing truck or something like that

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=40.31872...

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dekhn|5 months ago

I grew up near a town called "Moodus" in Connecticut which constantly made noises and had small quakes.

But it didn't prepare me for the few small quakes I experienced in the bay area (typically a bunch of car alarms go off and dogs bark, there's a thud, and then a gentle rocking).

BoorishBears|5 months ago

Never thought I'd see that town mentioned on Hacker News (or anywhere outside of Moodus)

dboreham|5 months ago

There are even earthquakes you can feel in "Old England". Not often, but I've experienced one. Lived in the BA for a few years and felt many small quakes. Lived in a very seismically active part of Montana for 25 years and felt nothing. YMMV.

sharksauce|5 months ago

Indeed -- Mount Desert Island (home of Acadia NP) had a small one just this weekend!

And we had a M4.2 one there about twenty years ago when I was living there.