We had a tiny earthquake today
 

https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6995613/quake-felt-Aug-30-2022-Near-Newark-New-Jersey-USA.html

I felt my house shake just for a moment. At first I thought Picatinny Arsenal had an accident but quickly realized that there had been no sound. We get these every few years usually due to the Ramapo Fault line. Never any damage just a WTF moment. This one had an epicenter very close to my house.

They're relatively rare in Adelaide but we had a small one a few years ago.

I was standing in my kitchen when it happen. It hit the front door first and traveled through the house. I heard the roof tiles shifting just outside the kitchen window and then silence. Every now and again Mother Nature likes to show us how puny we really are. ;)

I check this once in a while. I'm in California so we get a few quakes.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-45.3367,-263.67188&extent=79.03844,73.82813

I'm a bit south of you and hear (and feel) "energetic material" events from Picatinny Arsenal and more often the from large rock quarry just to the east of that ARDEC facility.

My usual rule of thumb is that if I can feel it - it's the quarry, if I hear it - it's Picatinny performing some testing.

Btw, we get a notification when the arsenal is performing some testing that would be relatively loud outside of the facility borders. It has never been as loud as 4th of July fireworks from nearby towns.

Notably, the arsenal is an R&D and project management facility (with a pretty good golf course, btw) and doesn't have large quantities of explosives on site, so an accident the scale of what happened to the Hercules facility in Kenvil (Roxbury) in 1989 probably couldn't happen. They also take extensive precautions for handling these materials, and keep them relatively widely dispersed.

This also reminds me of the earthquake centered in the Randolph NJ area about 9 years ago.

Here is an interesting earthquake database for that area: https://earthquaketrack.com/us-nj-randolph/recent

I happened to be out by my pond early on that morning and man it really spooked the fish. I have friends who live just the other side of Rt 46 (south of Herc) and their house really got rocked. Nails literally came out of the sheetrock.

Back in the 80s we'd get the muffled BOOM from the Arsenal but never any alert.

We had tiny tremors what felt like weekly when I lived in Japan. I miss them. We had one doozy the first time we lived there ('78-80). It destroyed my parents wedding china. As a kid, I never minded them.

Oh yeah, I hear the Herc blow-up in '89.

(However, I am not sure my wife heard it over the noise from our 1 1/2 year old and 4 year old.)

I have a college chum (a Chem Eng) who was working there at the time and he has an interesting take of that event.

Interestingly, however, I felt the earthquake 9 years ago more than the Herc explosion, despite the earthquake being only a 2.1 (or something like that).

Fires, floods and earthquakes..done em all.

I didn't mind my parents much when I was a kid either! ;^)

I never felt any of the 'jersey' ones. The one time I should have (it was strong and near us) We had power tools running.

On vacation in San Fran, we did go through a minor one. In a hotel room, I though a tractor trailer drove through the adjoining room. Don't think I could live in those areas.

lol!

Do be careful with earthquakes. When I worked for the bank it was quite boring so big excitement was being the first person to yell "earthquake" when there was even the slightest tremor.

I was just about to yell "earthquake" when my inner guardian angle said "NO!" and I turned around and a huge big lesbian called Les' (seriously...) was walking into our work area.

Phew. Nearly killed by an earthquake.

I'd say you dodged a bullet. :(

In 2010 in Iceland, in a geothermal power plant east of the capital, a guide was using a touch screen display to explain the working of the facility, when the floor started to shake we started to freak a bit but saw our guide was not distracted nor alarmed. Then we saw a couple at the next screen selecting demonstrations of the major quakes experienced in recent times in Iceland. The floor was programmed to give the appropriate motion for each event.
Got to love Icelanders.

Best
Les

I didn’t feel it in Morristown but I may have been in my car.

I used to work in Rockaway on Greenpond Road*. It was always funny to hear sirens and look at the window seeing the Bomb Squad vehicles with flashing lights going about 10mph with the trailer in tow.

I know the main entrance to the Arsenal is off 15 but I assumed there’s a back entrance to their party site.

*To keep it car related, the building I worked in was the original home of Hibernia Auto Restoration (Packard Specialist) before they moved off the main road and subsequently closed.


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We've had minor shakes on a regular basis up until this past year. Now we haven't had nearly the number and are getting a bit nervous. We have the feeling the small ones relieve the stress, & without them the stress builds up. They're always interesting to experience.