Reply #44: Reported publicly, maybe

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but it actually occurred on the 15th. It was only 2.1, epicenter was Tilton (just below the Lakes Region).

I've lived in New Hampshire for nearly 20 years now, and only felt one - back around 2002, I think. At the time I lived about 20 miles north of Tilton (in the Lakes Region itself). My whole house swayed, and I was thinking that that was one hell of a wind (I'm not conditioned to think "earthquake" up here). My son felt it as well, and wanted to know what it was, and I said it was one heck of a wind. It wasn't until a few hours later that I learned it was an earthquake and, if I had thought about it, my house at the time was this huge 6000 sq ft brick thing - ain't no wind pushing that around. But, as I said, I don't normally think in those terms up here. If I recall correctly, this one was actually centered somewhere in Lake Champlain off of Burlington, VT.

I've been through two in California that I felt, one of which didn't do any damage other than knock stuff off shelves (I was just south of San Francisco) but walking down the hotel corridor for about 10 or 20 seconds it was nearly impossible to walk straight.

They are scary things - those and tornadoes, but even tornadoes you roughly know when it's "tornado conditions". Hurricanes, lots of warnings. Earthquakes - no warning time that's going to do you any good. Poof, gone!