[Bigg Red]

What old fault line is involved this?

[DoctorMichael]

Did the earth move for you? (LOL)

Wow, a 5.1 in New England..............that'll wake ya up!!!!!!!!!

[Piquaboy]

That was no earthquake, Ted Kennedy fell out of bed.

[Maceman]

Felt it here in Framingham MA, about 20 miles due west of Boston.

[GRRRRR]

My cats went NUTS around 545 am CHICAGO TIME. Normally on Sat AM, they let me sleep until 7 before demanding Breakfast...this am, they were WHIRLING around the bedroom and wailing. I got up to feed them but they weren't interested....just agitated for about a half hour. Then they went back to sleep...weird huh..all the way in ChiTown.

GRRRRRRollin'

[bandlength]

i didn't notice a thing (sound asleep) but my daughter (who is usually the heavy sleeper in the house) said it felt like the washing machine off balance. she looked out the window to see what was happening and saw the neighbor guy fall on his butt.

[alley cat]

I felt it here, just west of Boston... the whole house shook!

[Don Myers]

I can imagine the effect of a 7.0 or higher centered in NYC. I wonder how many skyscrapers would be left standing?

[Cicero]

Our house in Vermont got a pretty good shaking. Here's the updated article from the link posted above:

Earthquake rattles Northeast, felt from Maine to Pennsylvania

By VERENA DOBNIK
The Associated Press
4/20/02 8:58 AM

NEW YORK (AP) -- An earthquake felt from Maine to Pennsylvania rattled the Northeast on Saturday morning with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The earthquake hit just before 7 a.m. and was centered about 15 miles southwest of Plattsburgh, in northern New York near the Vermont and Canadian borders.

A rural road partially collapsed in the town of AuSable, 12 miles south of Plattsburgh. A three-foot strip of the road and the shoulders on each side caved in, said State Police Sgt. Larry Cragle.

In the neighboring hamlet of Harkness, a minor county road was also collapsing, police said.

Sandy Caligiore, of Lake Placid, about 35 miles southwest of Plattsburgh, said he felt the shaking for about 30 seconds. It was so strong, decorations were falling off the walls, he said.

"I was getting out of the shower and the mirror was shaking. The whole house was shaking," said Darlene Conklin, who lives in Hopewell Junction, about 60 miles north of New York City. "My husband was watching TV, and he felt the couch shaking. You could see the doors shaking, the walls trembling."

The earthquake was recorded at 6:50 a.m., said William Ott, a seismologist at Weston Observatory at Boston College.

He said the quake was "moderate." A typical 5.1 earthquake would cause cracked plaster, broken windows and minor structural damage around the epicenter, he said.

"There are faults all over the northeastern United States," Ott said. "They're not as active as the ones in California, but they're capable of producing earthquakes of this size from time to time."

The largest earthquake recorded in New York, according to the USGS, was a 5.8 magnitude quake in 1944 that was centered in Massena, about 3 miles from the Canadian border.

Won Young Kim, a seismologist with the Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, said there was a magnitude 5.2 quake in 1993, about 50 miles south of the epicenter of Saturday's temblor. He said a magnitude 3.5 quake occurred just south of Plattsburgh on April 20, 2000.

Reports of the shaking Saturday came from as far north as Ontario and as far south as Philadelphia.

The USGS National Earthquake Information Center measured the earthquake's depth at 3.1 miles.

Kathleen Morrow, 31, of Northfield, in central Vermont, said the jolt woke her husband up and the shaking continued for several seconds.

"I had my feet on the floor ready to leave the house if it was going to be continuing or stronger," she said.

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On the Net:

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I was laying awake in my water bed here in Milford, MA. Didn't feel or hear a thing. Bummer.