Earthquake

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

> From: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>

> Aljex office in Middlesex, NJ felt it. Mild but unmistakable from the
> way they described it to me. They said all the monitors and doors were
> wobbling a little.
> 
> The weird thing is I was only 10 minutes away in Piscataway NJ at the
> time sitting in a Starbucks and no one felt anything. (ie, I wasn't
> driving or doing something else but sitting right on the ground, and
> there were plenty of other people around in the same place) I got a
> txt
> from my girlfriend in Tinton Falls, NJ about 30 minutes south and they
> felt it strongly. A few other people around me got txt's the same time
> I
> did and it wasn't just me being oblivious focused on my laptop, no one
> felt anything at all there.
> 
> Weird.

Nothing unusual there.  It's like the quiet spots in a wave interference pattern if you did those experiments in high school physics.  A steady 15+ second shake in Kearny NJ -- subjectively felt somewhat stronger than some heavier quakes I experienced in California.  But a quake doesn't feel the same when most of it happens before you wake up, as usually seemed to be the case out there.
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