Posted on 06/05/2007 8:13:15 AM PDT by BGHater
New Hampshire's Emergency Management Agency says a mild earthquake shook the state's Seacoast area June 2. Advertisement
Many residents called police to report hearing explosions and authorities were trying to figure out just what happened. They say the blasts might have been underground methane explosions.
There were no reports of injuries.
Emergency Management reports a 1.4 intensity earthquake hit at 10:30 p.m., and was centered about a mile and a half north of Exeter, N.H.
At the same time, and also a couple of hours earlier, police in Portsmouth received numerous calls from residents reporting they had heard explosions.
"Some of the residents reported that the concussions almost knocked off pictures from their walls,'' police said in a statement.
No source for the explosions was found after either series of calls.
Then, around 12:45 a.m., Portsmouth police reported finding unusual levels of methane gas escaping from the ground. Crews were digging holes to vent the underground gases.
Police say they don't know for sure if the explosive sounds were from an earthquake or underground gas explosions or both. They also are looking into whether the possible explosions actually triggered the earthquake monitoring devices.
Portsmouth struck by 1.9 earthquake. Twice! Did anybody notice aside from the tech on the seismometer?
1.4? Ted the swimmer doing jumping jacks causes more ground movement than that.
Hildebeast was running at that time.
His weight and his inconvenient IQ, (What do you get when you divide Marilyn vos Savants IQ of 183 by 3? 61! Al Gorge's IQ!) are stunning!
Remember the scene from Crocodile Dundee in which some punk threatens him with a knife, and he just laughs and says “That’s not a knife, THIS is a knife.” and then pulls out his own huge blade?
Well, I’m from California, and that’s not an earthquake.
Hillary fell out of bed I think.
Fred!
A 1.4 magnitude earthquake will not be felt by people. It certainly isn’t going to knock things off the walls.
1.4 hahaha Living in California thats not even a ruck going by the house.
I guess earthquakes are sized proportionally to the length of coast.
CC&E
A 1.4?
Guys, you’re going to have to better than that!
Here in California, we roll with a 5.0.
Incident at Exeter.
Ditto. A few weeks ago, somone bumped a support beam with a Lexus, and my townhome rattled much more than it would have, even with a quake measuring twice this one. (And remember: the Richter scale is logarithmic -- a 2.8 would be ten times ((give or take)) the intensity of a 1.4)
Must be global warming. They seem to be blaming everything else on that..
California BUMP!
...and it's Bush's fault.
Just sayin'...
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