http://tiggrstaar.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] tiggrstaar.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2012-10-16 07:21 pm
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Earthquake in Somerville

Anyone else just feel the earthquake in Somerville? Was my first ever and wasn't sure what was happening at first but probably pretty mild. Just curious if anyone else experienced it also.
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[identity profile] prunesnprisms.livejournal.com 2012-10-16 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00mc0dsp#summary
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Fill out a report!

[personal profile] squirrelitude 2012-10-16 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd encourage folks who experienced it to fill out a "Did You Feel It?" report at USGS:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/

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[identity profile] prunesnprisms.livejournal.com 2012-10-16 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Sadly, I didn't feel squat.

Re: Fill out a report!

[identity profile] ruthling.livejournal.com 2012-10-16 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
you can actually report that too.

Re: Fill out a report!

[identity profile] prunesnprisms.livejournal.com 2012-10-16 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Sweet!
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[personal profile] cos 2012-10-16 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
That link makes it hard to figure out that you can fill out a report.

This link is where you'd do it, I think: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/b000d75b/us/index.html

[identity profile] ronhaha108.livejournal.com 2012-10-16 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
yep, my couch started to shake i got up and all my stuff was shaking! wow!

I'm in Medford.
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[identity profile] ronhaha108.livejournal.com 2012-10-17 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
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[identity profile] curiositykt.livejournal.com 2012-10-17 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
tooo soooon

[identity profile] teko.livejournal.com 2012-10-17 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
That is amazeballs.

[identity profile] rufinia.livejournal.com 2012-10-17 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Me too! I just figured it was the guy who lives upstairs having super acrobatic sex or playing Rock Band... that's what's going on when the house shakes normally.
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[personal profile] nonelvis 2012-10-16 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a mile north of Davis but didn't feel a thing. Weird. I'll keep an eye out for aftershocks, though.

[identity profile] tiggrstaar.livejournal.com 2012-10-16 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
https://twitter.com/NewEarthquake/status/258345788332179456

Only 3 miles down, seemed to shake for a while.
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[personal profile] zdenka 2012-10-17 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa, so that's what it was! Dang, second earthquake in a year . . .

[identity profile] vibrantabyss.livejournal.com 2012-10-17 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Had about 2 seconds of sway on the third floor, over by Alewife Brook parkway. 1st floor also felt it.

[identity profile] i-leonardo.livejournal.com 2012-10-17 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Magoun sq is close to the Maxwell's Green development, so my first though was: "what a****** is sending earth-movers through the neighborhood at this hour ??" It was thrilling the same way one of those coin-operated vibrating mattresses in a cheap hotel is: bizarre and intriguing for a very brief interval then mercifully over.

[personal profile] ron_newman 2012-10-17 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
I did not feel it. I was in the basement of Somerville CIty Hall (at the monthly Bicycle Committee meeting) at the time.

(tagging this 'weather' for lack of a better one)

[identity profile] teko.livejournal.com 2012-10-17 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
I'm on the second floor of a house on Orchard, and I thought someone was running laps upstairs or moving furniture... felt the whole house wobbling.

[identity profile] radegund-lj.livejournal.com 2012-10-17 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
I was having dinner at the Bertucci's at Alewife and at one point noticed a rumbling in the floor. I thought maybe an extra heavy truck had gone by, but now I suspect it was the quake.

[identity profile] rmd.livejournal.com 2012-10-17 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Oh cool. I didn't notice it at the time. We get them every couple of years. We're due for a big one - it's been a few hundred years.
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[identity profile] tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com 2012-10-17 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
i was on the bus and didn't feel a thing! and i'm kinda disappointed about that.

[identity profile] andorus.livejournal.com 2012-10-17 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
I was at work in Waltham, on the 3rd floor, and it felt like a cross between a pop, thump, and bang. It was abrupt, like somebody had dropped something heavy or a cannon had gone off (without the long-lasting echo). I've felt longer quakes in Japan before and this was nothing like those, so I didn't recognize it for what it was at first.

Anecdote: I'd gone to a talk at the Weston Observatory last year about recording the audio (the impact of shockwaves with the air) of quakes, and they had a recording of a rather dull meeting in some city that was interrupted by a similar quake, which made the guy leading said meeting jump and swear really loudly. ;)

So exciting! Our planet is incredible. Earthquakes really can happen everywhere--not just at obvious plate boundaries or major fault lines.

[identity profile] she-of-emeralds.livejournal.com 2012-10-17 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, I felt it. Didn't even think that it might be an earthquake. I thought "Oh, a big gust of wind."

Of course, I was involved in a really good book at the time, so I might not have been paying a lot of attention.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_mattt/ 2012-10-18 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
First airplane noise, and now earthquakes.

What must Somerville be forced to endure!
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