Posted on 11/05/2012 7:27:44 AM PST by Beowulf9
(CNN) -- As if they haven't had enough headaches in New Jersey in the past week, on Monday morning they added earthquake to the list.
The magnitude-2.0 temblor struck at 1:19 a.m. and was centered two miles south-southeast of Ringwood, New Jersey, not far from the border with New York. The depth was 3.1 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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This small earthquake is equivalent to the proverbial “last straw.” New Jersey last week suffered devastation of many of its towns along the coast. Throughout the state they lost power, some homes are still without. The gas lines are hours long. The temperatures are freezing at night, and cold by day. So even a minor earthquake within the same weeks is at least worth knowing about.
I see you are from California. Trying to equate California earthquakes with east coast earthquakes are apples and oranges. West coast earthquakes are like tapping a piece of cracked, stale pizza crust with a hammer. If you're near where the tapping happens you feel it, but you have to tap hard for there to be much damage.
East coast earthquakes are like tapping a cast iron bell with a hammer. You don't have to hit it hard, but the shock travels very far, and it resonates quite a bit. That's why a lower Richter scale causes more damage on the east coast, and travels further. For example, a 3 pointer that happened a few years ago way up in Quebec Canada was felt by me 700 miles south, near Baltimore, MD.
Can magnitude 2 be said to actually “shake” anything?
by the way “the crow flies” Ringwood is about 10mi NE of me; slept through it, didn’t feel a thing; of course at 2.0 I think that’s expected
Nov 13-14; 6.5+ mag........Alaska 6.4...A deep fly ball, if it's fair it's gone. Foul ball, strike 1
Nov 15-16, 6.5+........South Mexico 6.0.....Foul tip, strike 2
Nov 20; 6.0+.....Offshore Chile 5.4.....strike three looking
Nov 22-23; 6.5+.....Argentina 5.6...strike 4 looking
Nov 28, 7.0+.....Peru 5.6.....strike 5 looking
Dec 4-5, 7.0+.....Anchorage 5.8.....strike 6, you're out again
Dec 11, 7.0+.....Ft McPherson, Canada, 5.1....strike 7
Dec17-18, 8.8+.....El Salvador 5.1.....strike 8
Dec 21, 10.0+...The pitcher goes into the windup...holy crap that's adopt a Mayan day, hold onto your butts!!!!!
It’s an eephus pitch!! Strike nine, looking, you’re out again. That is some VERY bad forecasting my FRiend! On the plus side, neither of us is speaking Mayan as we all feared five short days ago.
This is newsworthy because.....?
Its an eephus pitch!! Strike nine, looking, youre out again. That is some VERY bad forecasting my FRiend! On the plus side, neither of us is speaking Mayan as we all feared five short days ago.
I’m a couple miles from Ringwood. I didn’t feel anything either.
This small earthquake is equivalent to the proverbial last straw. New Jersey last week suffered devastation of many of its towns along the coast. Throughout the state they lost power, some homes are still without. The gas lines are hours long. The temperatures are freezing at night, and cold by day. So even a minor earthquake within the same weeks is at least worth knowing about.
That wasn’t an earthquake, it was Chris Christie jumping up and down pitching a hissy fit over guns.....
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