Earthquake

[Boaz Bezborodko]

> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:03:11 +0000 (UTC)
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> Subject: Re: Earthquake
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>> >  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.
> -- Ward Griffiths wdg3rd at comcast.net <home.comcast.net/~wdg3rd> God 
> does not play dice with the universe: He plays an ineffable game of 
> His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any 
> of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure 
> and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, 
> for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and 
> who _smiles all the time_. -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)
I felt it here in Passaic, NJ.  The whole building started to wave side 
to side (over 110-year-old brick building with external walls 18" thick) 
while other people in the building didn't feel anything at all.  I think 
the difference wasn't whether you were moving or not, but whether there 
was some form of reference by which you could tell that the side-to-side 
motion wasn't normal.