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Minor Earthquake near Milford NJ.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/usxycg.htm ^

Posted on 08/26/2003 12:16:04 PM PDT by Dog

A minor earthquake occurred at 18:24:17 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time on Tuesday, August 26, 2003. The magnitude 3.8 event occurred 1 km (1 miles) S of Milford, NJ. The hypocentral depth was 5 km ( 3 miles).

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Magnitude 3.8 Time Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 18:24:17 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 3:24:17 PM (ADT) - Atlantic Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 2:24:17 PM (EDT) - Eastern Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 1:24:17 PM (CDT) - Central Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 12:24:17 PM (MDT) - Mountain Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 11:24:17 AM (PDT) - Pacific Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 10:24:17 AM (AKDT) - Alaska Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 8:24:17 AM (HST) - Hawaii Distance from Milford, NJ - 1 km (1 miles) S (189 degrees) Frenchtown, NJ - 4 km (3 miles) NW (318 degrees) Riegelsville, PA - 9 km (6 miles) ESE (117 degrees) Allentown, PA - 33 km (20 miles) E (99 degrees)

Coordinates 40 deg. 33.5 min. N (40.558N) 75 deg. 5.8 min. W ( 75.097W) Depth 5 km (3.1 miles) Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 13 km (8.1 miles); depth fixed by location program Parameters Nst= 7, Nph= 7, Dmin=47 km, Rmss=0.77 sec, Gp=144°, M-type="Nuttli" surface wave magnitude (MLg), Version=6 Event ID# usxycg Additional Information 2-degree map Shaded relief map and other info from NEIC Topo map centered at earthquake (This link takes you offsite. Not all regions have topo maps available.) Did you feel it?

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TOPICS: Breaking News; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: earthquate; geology; highlands; newjersey; nj; njhighlands; passaiccounty; sprint; westmilford
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1 posted on 08/26/2003 12:16:04 PM PDT by Dog
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To: Mo1
Ping!
2 posted on 08/26/2003 12:18:22 PM PDT by Dog (: "And good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singing 'This'll be the day Saddam dies...'")
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To: Dog
Does this have anything to do with the hypthesis that the East Coast may become a subduction zone in a million years or so?
3 posted on 08/26/2003 12:19:00 PM PDT by Pyro7480 (+ Vive Jesus! (Live Jesus!) +)
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To: Dog
Earthquakes that small actually get headlines and a thread on Free Republic?
4 posted on 08/26/2003 12:19:34 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (No more 9/11's! Kill the Islamokazis and the Islamofascists in the Middle East!)
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To: Dog
Did Hillary fall down again?
5 posted on 08/26/2003 12:19:37 PM PDT by commish (Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
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To: Dog
I believe that a minor quake was felt in Kentucky as well.
6 posted on 08/26/2003 12:20:07 PM PDT by CAPPSMADNESS (Tagline under contruction..... next 20 posts...... merge right........)
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To: Grampa Dave
Out here in CA, a 3.8 isn't even worth getting out of bed over.
7 posted on 08/26/2003 12:21:34 PM PDT by Redcloak (All work and no FReep makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no FReep make s Jack a dul boy. Allwork an)
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To: Dog
Did you feel it?

Oh baby ... never mind ;0)

8 posted on 08/26/2003 12:21:57 PM PDT by Mo1 (http://www.favewavs.com/wavs/cartoons/spdemocrats.wav)
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To: Dog
M-type="Nuttli" surface wave magnitude

Sometimes it feels like a Nuttli, sometimes it don't.

9 posted on 08/26/2003 12:24:10 PM PDT by socal_parrot (I'm here all week, tell your friends.)
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To: Dog
There was another smaller one nearby and a comparable one at the New Madrid area in the past week.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/
10 posted on 08/26/2003 12:24:45 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...just whistling and waiting for the continental slope to slide)
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To: Redcloak
Out here in CA, a 3.8 isn't even worth getting out of bed over.

Though I bet there'd be people excited if you had perfect tubes on the Great Salt Lake, but why? they have good ones all the time off Hawaii.

11 posted on 08/26/2003 12:26:36 PM PDT by lepton
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To: Grampa Dave
There was a 5 at Anaktuvuk Pass last week. Was there a thread? Don't think so.
12 posted on 08/26/2003 12:28:24 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: Pyro7480
The East Coast was already a subduction zone. That's why we have all those folded rock formations in our old worn down mountains. Central New Jersey is actually a failed rift valley. The Atlantic Ocean originally started to form between the Watchung Mountains and the Atlantic Highlands. It expanded a little, the land collapsed, and then it stopped and filled in with dust. That's why there is shale and clay all over Central NJ. And it is mighty boring shale, too, because the rift valley was a desert at the time. I woundn't mind having to hack through shale to plant trees if I could at least get a few need fossils out of the effort
13 posted on 08/26/2003 12:28:30 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: Dog
Mars is approaching ever and ever closer!!
14 posted on 08/26/2003 12:30:19 PM PDT by week 71
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To: Dog
I wonder when the libs will blame this on GWB?

I mean, everything else is his fault. Why not an earthquake?
15 posted on 08/26/2003 12:31:10 PM PDT by nuffsenuff
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Subduction zone? Here's more possibilities...

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-08/nsfc-sra080102.php

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A33626-2000May30

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/666422/posts
16 posted on 08/26/2003 12:31:38 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...just whistling and waiting for the continental slope to slide)
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To: commish
Did Hillary fall down again?

You are bad!

LOL

17 posted on 08/26/2003 12:33:01 PM PDT by apackof2
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To: Dog
Just as the planet Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in more than a century, we have this major vibration in NJ. Did anyone get a news report from Grover's Mill??
18 posted on 08/26/2003 12:33:39 PM PDT by DonQ
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To: commish
LOL.....It's possible! Have you seen how much weight she's gained??? lol
19 posted on 08/26/2003 12:34:30 PM PDT by mrtysmm
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To: nuffsenuff
Can't we blame this on Davis the Grey?
20 posted on 08/26/2003 12:34:53 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...just whistling and waiting for the continental slope to slide)
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