Is that what it was???

Rockycoast · ‎03-02-2016

Around 9:30am I heard what sounded like a bang and then a tractor trailor driving by. I looked out the front parlor window, but there was no one even driving on the road. Later, come to find out we had a 2.7 earthquake here in So. Maine and New Hampshire. Nothing shaking, just a loud noise and then rumblings for a few seconds. I probably would not have even known it happened if I was in the back of the house in the kitchen!

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

A few years back we had a big bang here too. I was doing dishes and we ran outside to see if a house had exploded. It's amazing how much noise the earth makes. Really scary. That is not normally a happening here.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

Sometimes it's a roar like an oncoming train.

Signed,

Been There Many Times

OKPrincess · ‎03-10-2013

@Rockycoastwrote:
Around 9:30am I heard what sounded like a bang and then a tractor trailor driving by. I looked out the front parlor window, but there was no one even driving on the road. Later, come to find out we had a 2.7 earthquake here in So. Maine and New Hampshire. Nothing shaking, just a loud noise and then rumblings for a few seconds. I probably would not have even known it happened if I was in the back of the house in the kitchen!

Do you get them often in your neck of the woods? It can be unnerving if you’re not use to them. The last one I remember 2 yr ago I heard what I thought was an explosion outside the house and the kitchen floor moved enough for me to realize what was happening.

SelahG · ‎11-06-2013

Earthquake booms! I've only heard one and mistakened it for a sonic boom from a fighter jet doing training maneuvers since we used to live near an AF base. This happened late at night. Rattled the windows with a short burst of loud force. Later on the news we learned it was a small quake.

Glad and you are okay, @Rockycoast.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

I didn't know they came with a loud bang!

The only one I've been in (and not in CA!)

was when I lived in MD! not too many years ago.

And like @Noel7 said, it was like a train coming through the house!

I felt like I had totally lost control of my life! Like you are in a snowglobe-too shocked to be scared til afterwards.

After that, most everyone we knew got earthquake insurance. Of course we never got another one after that.

It was so unusual, I looked up a lot of things and learned that scientists say it is actually good for the earth to move a little every once in awhile (but this one wasn't little for MD, a 4. something, I know not large for CA), rather than never move or shift and then have a huge earthquake.

Whatever, they are all totally unnerving. I could never live in CA.

My aunt lives there and always points out that those on the east coast have just as many or more problems with the snow and ice.

I think its a matter of not being able to do a dang thing about it! (earthquakes that is).

And we didn't know what it was. We never thought omg an earthquake because we'd never been in one. We just thought what? Is the earth coming to an end? Are we in a sci-fi movie gone wrong?! We didn't know til afterwards what it was and heard on the news.

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

OKPrincess · ‎03-10-2013

Here in OK we’ve had them too. As a matter fact we received a letter in November from our insurance company they were no longer going to cover earthquakes.

Rockycoast · ‎03-02-2016

@OKPrincesswrote:
@Rockycoastwrote:
Around 9:30am I heard what sounded like a bang and then a tractor trailor driving by. I looked out the front parlor window, but there was no one even driving on the road. Later, come to find out we had a 2.7 earthquake here in So. Maine and New Hampshire. Nothing shaking, just a loud noise and then rumblings for a few seconds. I probably would not have even known it happened if I was in the back of the house in the kitchen!
Do you get them often in your neck of the woods? It can be unnerving if you’re not use to them. The last one I remember 2 yr ago I heard what I thought was an explosion outside the house and the kitchen floor moved enough for me to realize what was happening.

@OKPrincess- No, we very seldom get earthquakes. When we do they are on the small scale. Hardly noticeable at all. No shaking, just loud noises and rumblings. The last no longer then 20-30 seconds if that. It doesn't scare us, just a curiousity factor really.

Rockycoast · ‎03-02-2016

@OKPrincess- Geeesh, was that a preemptive strike by the insurance company? Is Ok. one of the states being affected by fracking so the increase of small quakes? I thought Ok. was more in line for Tornados.

Rockycoast · ‎03-02-2016

@SelahGwrote:
Earthquake booms! I've only heard one and mistakened it for a sonic boom from a fighter jet doing training maneuvers since we used to live near an AF base. This happened late at night. Rattled the windows with a short burst of loud force. Later on the news we learned it was a small quake.

Glad and you are okay, @Rockycoast.

@SelahG- Yep, we are all fine. My husband was at work and was even closer to where the quake was centered, (many miles away)and he and the fellas in the office didn't even know about it....men, ah go figure. haha