Well that settles that one. The USGS reposted it as a legit quake.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0009gcq.php
Guess they could not find a miner...lol
Sure seems like an extra ordinary number of weird occurances lately, the booming sounds and now this at 0' of depth. If I were a local USGS guy, I'd seen a team out to have a look around.
Heads up on a Super New Moon if you didn't know about it. The last one was in March of last year and I don't have to tell you what happened in March of last year. :)
'Supermoon' Alert: Biggest Full Moon of 2012 Occurs This Week
At perigee, the moon will exert about 42 percent more tidal force than it will during its next apogee two weeks later,