Was there an earthquake in NY/NJ?

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[jberryhill]

1. Sorry. Must have been something I ate.

[Brickbat]

2. USGS says sonic boom.

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4. I see that. What does that mean?

Meteor? Explosion? And why would it be felt from Southern Jersey to Long Island according to one article I saw?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20004vbk#general_region

[KamaAina]

5. A sonic boom happens when a plane, rocket or whatever travels faster than the speed of sound

around 740 mph. It's called "breaking the sound barrier".

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7. "Supershear earthquakes" (?)

http://www.livescience.com/46747-super-deep-super-fast-earthquakes.html

"An earthquake occurs when two sides of a fault rip apart, opening up like a zipper. Faults can slide side-by-side or up-and-down, or a combination of both directions. The event unleashes waves of seismic energy. Certain types of waves called shear waves usually travel faster than the rupture unzips, but in supershear earthquakes, the rupture catches the shear waves.

When the rupturing fault moves faster than the shear waves, the waves of energy pile up like the Mach cone surrounding a jet flying faster than the speed of sound, creating a phenomenon akin to a seismic sonic boom."

[jberryhill]

3. Here you go.....

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=earthquakes+today&l=1

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It wasn't pretty.