Magnitude 3.9 Earthquake 10 miles east of Portsmouth NH. (1 Viewer)

[Merl]

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00sqr6q8/region-info

The epicenter was only 25 or so miles from me. Didn't really feel it but did hear it!

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

 

[superchuck500]

The USGS earthquake site says it was 3.8 but the NOAA tsunami site says it was 4.1.

 

[Merl]

The USGS earthquake site says it was 3.8 but the NOAA tsunami site says it was 4.1.

USGS originally had it at 4.1 but changed to 3.9. Now at 3.8.

 

[efil4stnias]

 

[superchuck500]

USGS originally had it at 4.1 but changed to 3.9. Now at 3.8.

I definitely trust USGS over those slackers at NOAA

 

[TheRealJRad]

That’s where I stayed when I went to the Saints/Pats game a few years back. Probably the first time I was in a fully walkable town, it blew my mind (and was pretty awesome)

 

[superchuck500]

That’s where I stayed when I went to the Saints/Pats game a few years back. Probably the first time I was in a fully walkable town, it blew my mind (and was pretty awesome)

Yeah, I was in Portsmouth last July - really cool. After wife and I had a lobster roll on the waterfront (the current in that river is wild!), she walked around for a bit at the shops while I enjoyed a couple of pints and a soccer game. It was the first week of July and probably 72 degrees.

Update: Yes, the current on the Piscataqua River at Portsmouth can hit 12 knots, making it the swiftest on the eastern seaboard and one of the top 10 in the world per this source:

https://www.kitteryme.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif10031/f/agendas/4-14-2022_include_river24x18sign32022proof.pdf

 

[TheRealJRad]

Didn't really feel it but did hear it!

Pardon my ignorance, but did the earthquake itself have an actual sound, or just like the sounds of stuff moving and shaking as an effect of the earthquake?

 

[Merl]

Pardon my ignorance, but did the earthquake itself have an actual sound, or just like the sounds of stuff moving and shaking as an effect of the earthquake?

There was a "boom". I at first thought a house blew up from a gas leak somewhere in the area.

 

[superchuck500]

Pardon my ignorance, but did the earthquake itself have an actual sound, or just like the sounds of stuff moving and shaking as an effect of the earthquake?

I'm no geologist but I would suspect that you would have to be fairly close to the epicenter to hear whatever sound waves the earthquake produces - the rest would be sounds made by stuff moving, breaking, etc.

 

[Merl]

I haven't seen anything damaged or broken around here. No trees or limbs down either.

My nephew works in Portsmouth and said his building did shake enough that they were told to evacuate it until a inspection for damage was done.

 

[Mamba]

3.9? Ho hum.

 

[Sailorsaint]

3.9? Ho hum.

In SoCal, that's barely a wakeup alarm.

 

[Merl]

In SoCal, that's barely a wakeup alarm.

In NE it's a significant one. Local news just said that it was felt in at least part of every New England state and it was a "shallow* quake.