Ny Earthquake

[luvdvc95]

Any DVCer feel the earthquake in upstate New York this morning? Windows rattled in the New Paltz/Rosendale area.

 

[Luv2Dream]

Yes, the quake was felt here in Central MA, but I slept right thru it.

 

[MdmMim]

It bounced me around the bed. (Outside Albany, NY) Kind of freaky...

 

[bicker]

I felt a little rock and roll here in the Boston area. Not as much as my last earthquake.

 

[Disneyolic]

Live near the Syracuse, NY, area and the shaking woke me up. It kept getting stronger so I rushed to get my 2 young DS out of bed. It stopped as I got to my older DS room. We had a water main break somewhere nearby and now are w/o water. Lucky for me that I started saving water after 9/11 and have plenty in my basement!

 

[DVC-LEROY]

I heard it centered in Plattsburgh, NY. We felt it here in New Hartford - just outside of Utica, NY. Got my whole neighborhood out of bed.

 

[mle]

felt it down here in Long Island. it had coincided with a jet flying overhead and my DH coming back into the bedroom from walking the dog. as I was laying in bed and he was standing by the other side, I thought he was rocking it. when he said that he wasn't and he attributed it to the jet that just passed (he didn't notice any shaking!). I suggested it could have been an earthquake; he just laughed. it wasn't until we were in the car doing some errands, that we heard about it on the news. the kids slept right through it!

 

[CarolAnnC]

It scared the life out of me this morning!!! Every window in my house was rattling, my DD was scared as her bed was shaking. Rumbling and vibration throughout all floors and walls. I thought the house was collapsing, did not even think about an earthquake, LOL! Figured it was this house only....

 

[erick10520]

Felt it in Northern NJ..........

 

[Gigashadow]

hehe, MLE: Isnt it great living so close to JFK's inbounds/outbounds with 747's feeling/sounding like they are landing on our block! Couldnt tell the difference last night with the rain (windows closed) But I did feel the last one years ago.

8')

 

[DVC-Don]

Yep. We just got back from a stay at the VWL. The TV on my wifes dresser jumped around. My daughters alarm clock fell on the floor and the WHOLE house shook and our windows rattled. Quite an eye opener.

We live in Saratoga County.

 

[rbuzzotta]

We live only 7 miles north of Boston and we felt it. My DH was getting dressed this morning and I told him to "stop shaking the bed". When I looked up, he wasn't even near it! His bureau was rattling. My DD's slept through it all. I knew an earthquake would never wake them!!!!!!! they would sleep through anything!!!

 

[Louise-Montreal]

Felt it up here in Montreal!

 

[mle]

hey Gigashadow,

I saw from the May list that you will be at WDW for the Memorial Day weekend. where on LI are you from? DH is a suffolk co. boy from Setauket, but I converted him to a nassau co. dweller.

we (me, DH, 11yo DD and 6yo DS) will be at AKL from the 25th through the 28th. just a short little trip to splurge for DH's b-day. DH is going to sign DVC papers on 04/30, so soon our future trips will at our "home". can't wait!

 

[LindaBabe]

here in Schenectady County. Clearly an earthquake - but not as bad as the last one I lived through - the Whittier earthquake of 1987.

 

[akghutton]

My son and I were visiting my parents in Canton, NY, and the earthquake shook their house enough to wake us out of a deep sleep. Quite a frightening way to wake up!

 

[chrisd596]

Never felt anything like this..........sort of shook the bed......thought my little guy was in the room and pushing on the bed with his feet. (Down in South Jersey)

 

[AnnaS]

I slept right through it here on Staten Island. My sister though who lives a few blocks down was up late watching Oprah and she said it really scared her. The whole bed moved.

 

[lrodk]

Our home shook very noticeably at around 6:30am in Northern NJ, about 6 miles from New York City. I thought it was one of those heavy trucks that often passes by our street, but had my doubts because it lasted a good 10 seconds and I didn't hear the typical rattling sounds of a vehicle that large. I guess this all explains it.

 

[lrodk]

Just came across an article as it will appear in tomorrow's NY Times Sunday edition:


A moderately powerful earthquake rumbled up the Eastern Seaboard yesterday, causing no injuries but damaging roads and breaking windows in upstate New York while shaking people out of sleep from Maine to Maryland.

The quake, which struck at 6:50 a.m., had a magnitude of 5.1 with its epicenter about 15 miles southwest of Plattsburgh, N.Y., according to the United States Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center.

It could be felt as far away as Boston in the east, the Canadian border to the north, west to Buffalo and as far south as Baltimore, a statement released by the center said.

In Brooklyn, it felt as if the subway train were rolling by. Gov. George E. Pataki said he could feel the quake in the Executive Mansion in Albany.

By noon yesterday, Clinton and Essex Counties in upstate New York had declared states of emergency as officials there received reports of damage including water main breaks, collapsed roads and fallen chimneys.

A 200-foot portion of Route 9N collapsed in the town AuSable, 12 miles south of Plattsburgh, and County Road 39 in nearby Harkness was also damaged, said Don Maurer, the spokesman for the State Emergency Management Office.

Mr. Maurer said about 1,500 people in the town of Jay lost power for a few hours. He added that the State Department of Transportation would begin checking all roads and bridges in the area around the epicenter. Several dams in the region had already been checked, he said, and were found to be undamaged.

Hannah Deming, 40, lives in Keeseville, a few miles from the epicenter. She had just sat down to have a morning cup of coffee with her husband, Jon, when she heard a sudden, terrible racket that sounded, she said, like a furnace about to explode.

"There were these incredible pops and bangs," Mrs. Deming recalled. "It sounded like the house was about to blow."

Although some witnesses said the tremors lasted no more than 30 seconds, Mrs. Deming said they went on for perhaps two minutes — long enough for her husband to place their daughter Grace in the car, run back inside the house for a cellphone, come out again, and run back in for the car keys. The quake, she said, had cracked their concrete-block house from foundation to roof.

Barbara Earle was visiting her cousin Brian Bourgeois at his refurbished farmhouse up the road from the Demings' home. "This old house shook good," Ms. Earle said. "We definitely felt it.

"We've got family in Syracuse and Long Island, and they both called. Both of them felt this thing where they were, too."

In October, an earthquake with a magnitude of 2.6 was recorded in New York City, with its epicenter on the east side of Manhattan, just north of the Queensboro Bridge.

Dr. Frank Revetta, a professor of geology at the State University of New York College at Potsdam, said there had not been an earthquake so large in the Plattsburgh area since 1983. That year, a quake similar to yesterday's struck near Blue Mountain Lake, he said.

The Plattsburgh area, Dr. Revetta said, is in what is known as the Northern New York-Western Quebec Seismic Zone, a belt of land that extends from the Adirondacks into Canada and is given to small earthquakes that typically measure a magnitude of 2 to 4.

Dr. Revetta said yesterday's quake provided him a chance to feel personally the effects of a decent-size earthquake.

"It was actually kind of scary," he said. "The house just kept shaking and shaking and shaking."