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A 3.5 mine blast??? WTF???

Earthquake Bulletin

	Date-Time	2002 11 27 21:20:54 UTC
	Location	44.15N 105.36W
	Depth	0.0 kilometers
	Magnitude	3.5
	Region	WYOMING MINE BLAST
	Reference	10 miles (20 km) SE of Gillette, Wyoming 50 miles (85 km) WSW of Sundance, Wyoming 60 miles (100 km) WNW of Newcastle, Wyoming 210 miles (340 km) N of CHEYENNE, Wyoming
	Source	USGS NEIC

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[Servant of the Nine]

A 3.5 mine blast??? WTF???

There are a couple of coal strip mines in Wyoming that blast the overburden off the seam once a week with a charge so large it has to be reported beforehand to the Russians so they won't think it was a nuclear test. It shows up on seismographs all over the world.

So9

[Cuttnhorse]

3.5?...it was probably in one of the open pits...they can get pretty big...but 3.5 sounds like they might have loaded a "little" on the heavy side. I was under the impression that mine blasts were recorded at beingless than 2M.

Quite a cluster of shakers in California over the past 10-days. Have you felt the earth move...so to speak?