Earthquakes can happen here – Lowell Sun

Nashua, NH – OMG, I felt it.

But according to scientific data, it was too far away, and the timing was off.

Californians will probably laugh at me because people there understand what real earthquakes are. I just read that the Golden State experiences about 500 earthquakes a year, and they are the kind that are “big enough to be detected and felt by the locals”.

On April 23rd, Sunday night, around 10:30pm, I was sitting on my couch and felt my floor vibrate and heard the basement door creak. It was very short, maybe three seconds.

Earthquake! It’s time to drop in, cover and wait as emergency preparedness guides advise.

No, not exactly. But there was one measuring 3.6 on the Richter Scale that happened in Adams, New York, that day, and it could be felt all the way to Walpole, New Hampshire. The thing is, it was reported at 2:10 PM, so what did you hear and feel several hours later?

Two days later, the Granite State also recorded some earthquakes within its borders, but no one around the Nashua area reported any underground rumbling or clattering of dishes in tanks, etc.

The USGS confirmed that a 2.9-magnitude earthquake struck southwest Sandwich, New Hampshire, at about 9:49 a.m. on Tuesday, April 25, shaking the state’s central region near Squam Lake. People as far away as Manchester say they have felt it. By the way, if an earthquake scores less than 2, you don’t even know it happened because you don’t feel it.

WMUR-News 9 meteorologist Matt Hoenig recently told TV viewers that New Hampshire doesn’t sit on a major fault line, but “what’s under us are little interior plates, these little fault lines, and that’s why earthquakes in general are less severe but Maybe a little more frequent than some other areas.”

Not that anyone’s counting, but…we’ve already had five earthquakes in the state so far in 2023, tying with last year’s total. And the 2.9 Zinger is the largest that has only been recorded twice in the past decade. Earthquakes come and go here, said Shin Seki, director of the New Hampshire Geological Survey, to News 9. “There are some years that have more earthquakes than others.”

Seki added that New England rarely experiences earthquakes higher than magnitude 3.

Residents of southern New Hampshire stand a better chance of experiencing a tornado than an earthquake, according to USA.com, which collects this type of data. Even tornadoes aren’t seen very often in the Granite State, but they can touch down unceremoniously and cause structural damage and death. This brings to mind the tragic tornado in 2008. An EF2 tornado in Deerfield, New Hampshire, destroyed a home in Northwood Lake and killed a 57-year-old woman who was holding tightly to her two-month-old grandson. He was ripped from her arms and later miraculously found alive in the rubble with no major injuries.

It was heartbreaking because this is so rare. The tornado passed through 11 communities across five counties and damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes in its path.

Are any of us really prepared for a natural disaster such as an earthquake or hurricane because they rarely happen in New England?

We hope for the best from Mother Nature. I simply wish a calm spring with sunny skies, a nice breeze, and temperatures around 70’s.

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