So apparently at around 1:30am there was a 2.5 Magnitude Earthquake in Littleton, MA. I have no idea where that is, but I’m guessing it’s someplace out west. Far enough away that we didn’t feel or hear anything in Boston. What was really interesting was nobody knew what the loud noise was and the police were getting 911 calls reporting plane crashes, buildings exploding etc. So the cops even sent patrol cars and helicopters to search for a big fireball or crash site. Eventually, they figured it out.
I’m guessed someone from the USGS is always on duty to make calls to local police stations in cases like these but I wanted to learn more. So I googled Earthquake. The second result was this page:
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/
Wow! I can’t believe how many quakes hit California every, single, day. How cool would it be to do structural engineering in California? It certainly would never get boring.
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