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I felt nothing. Are you sure this wasn't around 11:45 ET when Donovan scored the goal?

No, it was about 1:50. Where in NJ are you? As I said, we're in the Meadowlands (Secaucus - about 2 miles from Giants Stadium), so we're basically sitting on swamp land. That might be why we felt it so strongly.

[traderrob6]

We had a 5.2 in Southern Ill. a couple years back centered 20 miles from where I live. Shook the hell outta the house and scared the bejesus out of me.

They say that you can’t compare the feel and results of a California quake with a midwestern one as the MW plates are much more solid and brittle therefor having significantly greater effect.

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I'm in the Caldwell area. I think if you dig down more than six inches on my property, you would almost certainly hit rock. But this didn't keep me from being quite aware of a 4.0 quake centered in Scarsdale back in October 1987.

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