Ukecaster
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All over the news now...a 4.8 earthquake in NJ, felt from Boston to Baltimore, largest there since 1884. I felt it, a mild shaking near Boston. The news says no damage or injuries.
OMG...NJ earthquake!
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One of my ukes shifted position by 1/4". I was terrified and called the ukulele police immediately! 
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Well, certainly it would be a fairly common event out there. According to NBC News:
"Today's earthquake is the strongest to hit New Jersey in almost 250 years, according to state data."
SkeeterAB
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The last time we had a big quake on the east coast I was working on the 23rd floor of a tower in Boston and it started swaying. Everyone ran out into the hall.
I was in my office, and my chair started bouncing...
Mind you, my office is in the middle of a 90-year-old, 3-storey concrete & Brick over Steel Beam Middle (Built as a high) School, probably 2-225 miles north of the epicenter.
The last earthquake I was involved in, I never noticed, as I was doing CPR at the time. That had to be almost 40 years ago.
Mind you, my office is in the middle of a 90-year-old, 3-storey concrete & Brick over Steel Beam Middle (Built as a high) School, probably 2-225 miles north of the epicenter.
The last earthquake I was involved in, I never noticed, as I was doing CPR at the time. That had to be almost 40 years ago.
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The only earthquake I experienced on the East Coast was on Jan. 9, 1982. I was living in New Brunswick (Canada) at the time, when a 5.7 quake hit just a little before 9:00 a.m. Although I encountered numerous earthquakes many years later (while living in California), I still find them to be an unsettling surprise.
I'm a bit late posting, but I wanted to be certain what I felt was a 'quake. I live about 20 miles north of Brattleboro VT, about 250 miles from the epicenter. At the time it occurred there was about 8 inches of heavy wet snow on my metal roof which was melting and due to slide off,. The shaking and rumbling was more violent was more than I expected from snow sliding off the roof, but the news reports at the time didn't report any effects in this area, so I left it at that.
I ran across this article from a local news outlet that confirms that the shaking did indeed extend this far north.
www.manchesterjournal.com
I ran across this article from a local news outlet that confirms that the shaking did indeed extend this far north.
Quake shakes up southern Vermont and rattles residents
Not everyone in our readership area felt Friday morning's earthquake, but many people definitely did.
