Posted on 10/27/2001 10:15:38 AM PDT by KYwoman
Small earthquake shakes NYC metro area By LUKAS I. ALPERT The Associated Press 10/27/01 4:57 AM NEW YORK (AP) -- A minor earthquake shook the New York City metro area early Saturday, knocking pictures off walls, breaking china and rattling the nerves of some still jumpy in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A magnitude-2.6 earthquake hit under lower Manhattan around 1:42 a.m., said Dr. John Ebel, director of the Weston Observatory at Boston College, which monitors seismic activity in the Northeast. "That's more than a tremor. That's a small earthquake," Ebel said. At first police scrambled to determine what was going on, as 911 calls flooded in reporting shaking buildings and a booming sound, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, said Detective Edward Reuss, a spokesman for the New York Police Department. Calls came in primarily from Manhattan and Queens, a spokesman for the fire department said. About an hour after the quake, residents in the Astoria section of Queens were seen standing out in the street, some wearing little more than their bed clothes. One woman, Josephine Toscamo, said she was woken by a loud boom and the sound of breaking glass, as glasses in her china cabinet fell over, and lamps fell to the floor. "I'm a little shaken up so I'm going to spend the night at my friend's," she said. Meanwhile, recovery work continued uninterrupted at the site of the World Trade Center collapse. Carolyn Bell, a spokeswoman for the U.S.G.S., said no damage was expected, but the quake was felt into Long Island and New Jersey. The last significant natural seismic event to strike the city was a magnitude-2.4 earthquake on January 17.
That is definitely an earthquake...not a tremor.
I was in LA on September the 9th when a 2.7 hit in Santa Monica about 1/2 an hour-45 minutes from where I was in Baldwin Hills.
It felt like a rolling pin was moving from left to right under the house.
No...not a tremor.
A plague of flies, perhaps?
You're point being.........?
Yep. A few days ago a scaffolding on a building being remodeled in New York collapsed. It killed several men. It also sent up a large cloud of dust that spread out to nearby businesses. People in those businesses, understandably, thought that New York had been attacked again!
That's probably more ominous sounding than you meant it to be.
A plague of flies, perhaps?
Centered on Hilary™! no doubt...
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