Upstate Earthquakes?
Steven Bonadio
read relating to seismic activity upstate. I remember a very minor quake (3?)
in the Adirondacks in 1984 or so. Anybody have more detail on such activity?
Steven
Darin
Summit,
NY (near Cobleskill-Richmondville, 40 miles east north east of Albany),
around 5:30am. I remember it because I was getting ready to go to
school, and it was like a train ran near the house.
There was another in 1990 or 1991 that I remember when I live in Utica and
believe the epicenter was Summit, NY again, and that was an early morning
episode. I remember the radio announcer freaked on a that Classic Rock
out of Utica.
Does anybody remember these?
-Darin Lory, Communications Analyst
Port Jervis, NY
da...@aol.com
Scott Wight
bon...@new.ultranet.com (Steven Bonadio) wrote:
Yes, I remember such a quake, its epicenter was near Blue Mountian. I was
at school SUNY Plattsburgh and remember waking to a shaky bunk bed. My dad
was shaving (must have been about 6:45am) in Long Lake about 15 miles from
the epicenter and although the house suffered no damage he was quite
concerned when the shakin was goin on.
--
Scott Wight formerly of Long Lake, NY
Microanalysis Group NIST, Gaithersburg MD 20899
301-975-3949
wi...@enh.nist.gov I'm the NRA & I Vote
Tim Gray
was near Blue Mountain in the Adirondacks. I slept right through it,
but my sister, in her basement bedroom, got shaken out of bed.
Beth Lauzon
> There was another in 1990 or 1991 that I remember when I live in Utica and
> believe the epicenter was Summit, NY again, and that was an early morning
> episode. I remember the radio announcer freaked on a that Classic Rock
> out of Utica.
> Does anybody remember these?
I remember them. I was awoken in the morning and my whole bed was
shaking. But you never hear about upstate NY being an earthquake zone.
Actually there is a pretty major fault line near the St. Lawrence I
believe. I've felt more earthquakes in NY than anywhere else I've
lived (including the west coast). Go figure.
And I remember that Utica station as well, it was usually the only
good station you could hear some semi-new music in the Syracuse area.
So why is that? Why is it that Syracuse is destined to have a vast wasteland
of radio stations?
Beth
(even Little Rock has an alternative station)
Herman Chen
Earthquakes? by Beth Lau...@ualr.edu
> shaking. But you never hear about upstate NY being an earthquake zone.
> Actually there is a pretty major fault line near the St. Lawrence I
> believe. I've felt more earthquakes in NY than anywhere else I've
> lived (including the west coast). Go figure.
>
I remember hearing about several minor earthquakes on the news in
Rochester in the 80's and early ninties, but I've never actually felt
one. Most of them occurred in Canada or in Northern NY. It was weird,
alot of people have felt them and aftershocks, but I don't remember ever
feeling one. According to some studies that I had to write about, the
chance of a big earthquake east of the Mississippi is about 2/3rds the
chance of one occurring in the west. That's alot higher than most
people would think. I still feel safer in NY though.
> And I remember that Utica station as well, it was usually the only
> good station you could hear some semi-new music in the Syracuse area.
> So why is that? Why is it that Syracuse is destined to have a vast wasteland
> of radio stations?
>
> Beth
> (even Little Rock has an alternative station)
>
If you get lucky, you might be able to pick up 90.5 WBER from Rochester.
I could receive at the Syracuse Thruway exit (46?).
Herman
(Pittsburgh has almost NO good stations)
sidney hellman
I seem to be having a problem with my news poster, so I'll try this
again in a brief format.
For recent information on N.E. US earthquakes, you can
'finger qu...@lamont.ldgo.comubia.edu' The current result of this is
below.
Sid
[lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu]
LAMONT COOPERATIVE SEISMIC NETWORK (LCSN)
Member of the Council of the National Seismic System (US)
The LCSN is operated by Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory,in cooperation
with the State University of New York at Potsdam, The University of
Vermont, Middlebury College (Vt), Westchester Community College, Rensselaer
Polytecnic Institute, and the Adirondack Ecological Center. Operation is
supported by the US Geological Survey and the New York Power Authority.
Other similar bulletins listed at finger qu...@geophys.washington.edu
DATE-(UTC)-TIME LAT(N) LON(W) DEP MAG COMMENTS
yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss deg. deg. km mLg
94/11/01 07:32:40 44.87N 75.12W 3.7 1.1mLg 19.4 km W of Massena, NY
94/11/10 13:02:33 45.00N 75.65W 3.4 2.2mLg 36.5 km N of Ogdensburg, NY
94/11/20 19:33:39 44.33N 70.79W 7.7 2.9mLg 31.4 km SW of Rumford, ME
94/11/21 00:18:32 44.09N 73.53W 1.0 2.0mLg 30.0 km W of Middlebury, VT
94/11/21 00:30:55 44.08N 73.52W 1.4 2.2mLg 29.4 km W of Middlebury, VT
94/12/03 04:24:39 40.35N 73.82W 10.0 2.5mLg 15.6 km E of Long Branch, NJ
94/12/04 10:43:00 45.81N 72.58W 11.0 1.9mLg 141.5 km NE of Plattsburgh, NY
94/12/08 05:47:04 44.42N 73.60W 14.5 1.6mLg 31.5 km W of Burlington, VT
94/12/15 21:44:07 45.90N 75.21W 8.7 2.8mLg 66.0 km NE of Ottawa, ONT.
94/12/22 11:12:54 45.18N 73.47W 13.3 2.5mLg 53.6 km N of Plattsburgh, NY
95/01/02 15:05:38 45.93N 74.82W 4.3 2.6mLg 89.2 km NE of Ottawa, ONT.
95/01/04 21:14:06 45.73N 73.99W 10.0 2.3mLg 101.5 km N of Malone, NY
95/01/08 05:08:04 40.21N 75.90W 0.0 2.5mLg 12.0 km SE of Shillington, PA
95/01/10 17:44:19 41.47N 73.46W 3.0 1.6mLg 8.3 km N of Danbury, CT
95/01/20 06:49:05 45.22N 72.89W 7.4 1.7mLg 73.3 km NE of Plattsburgh, NY
Robert Reville
> All the damage in Japan this week got me thinking about things
> that I have read relating to seismic activity upstate. in the
> Adirondacks in 1984 or so. Anybody have more detail on such
> activity?
> Steven
Perhaps an earthquake expert out there will correct me, but it seems
to me that I had heard that upstate New York is considered to be a
fairly high risk earthquake area. The main reason for this, I think,
is the Niagara Escarpment which, I had been told, is a fault line.
Thus, many many years ago, a very big quake created Niagara Falls, and
if that thing goes again, look out! :-) Now that I think about it,
though, it seems to me that I had also heard that the Escarpment was
created by glacial activity. Anybody out there know which it is?
--Bob Reville
Bill McFarland
Attica that has had activity during his lifetime (80 years). Does anybody
have any info on this?
--
Bill McFarland
bil...@corp.sgi.com
415-390-3466
RICH DEAN
evening, 1/26/95 at 9:40 pm. The epicenter was in Rockaway Township
(Morris County), Green Pond section, which is about 12 miles southwest
of Greenwood Lake in the Town of Warwick NY.
Bob Forsythe
engineer the Northeast to withstand a major earthquake, and compares
that with buying snow removal equipment in Miami. Well, I suppose you
can argue that, but it'll be the people in the Northeast who have
unreinforced masonry buildings coming down on their heads when a
reasonably-sized earthquake does hit. And it doesn't take a "major"
quake to do that, if no precautions have been taken. A 6.5 can bring
down a lot of buildings if they're not built to withstand that much
ground movement, and that's just a moderate quake. Not all earthquakes
take place on plate boundaries. Let's keep in mind that the greatest
quake in U.S. history took place in Missouri. It's all well and good
to sit back and say "it can't happen here", but it can and it does.
Perhaps I'm a bit more sensitive to it, living in Socal, but I've seen
that same attitude from San Diego city leaders for any number of years.
They figure that since we're not all that close to the San Andreas we
wouldn't get hammered in a quake. But if the building codes aren't up
to snuff, it doesn't take that large a quake to do a lot of damage.
Proceed at your own risk; it could be a thousand years before a decent
sized quake hits the northeast, but then again, it could occur
tomorrow. I see nothing wrong with demanding a few safety measures.
=Bob