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A mysterious blast in the wintry night

Many residents had theories, but few guessed
earthquake

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

BY KRISTEN ALLOWAY

Star-Ledger Staff

Many who heard a boom and felt the ground shake thought their furnace had
blown up. Others feared a truck or plane had crashed. Still others surmised
there had been an explosion at Picatinny Arsenal, an Army base in Morris County
that tests weapons.

Hundreds called police to find out what had happened, and others ran outside
into the night to commiserate with neighbors.

The mystery was solved quickly. The U.S. Geological Survey said the
tremendous concussion that rattled windows, shuddered walls and appeared to echo
throughout northern New Jersey Monday night was an earthquake with a magnitude
of 3.0. That's considered minor, but larger than what typically rocks the state,
according to the USGS.

The quake occurred at 10:34 p.m., and the epicenter was about five miles from
Morristown, near Victory Gardens, said John Bellini a geophysicist with the
USGS.

Residents from Parsippany to Hackettstown to Bernardsville reported feeling
something, according to the USGS, which collects responses at its website:
earthquake.usgs.gov. But those in Dover, Wharton, Denville, Randolph, Mine Hill
and the Rockaways in Morris County were the most rattled.

Kevin Meyer said his house in Rockaway Township felt "like a plate on a
tablecloth and somebody tried to pull the tablecloth.

"The whole house went up, and there was a loud boom," he said. "Literally, it
felt like a wave of energy passed under the house. It was pretty strong. At
first I wasn't sure I was awake."

Won-Young Kim, a senior scientist with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
at Columbia University, got a call from State Police Monday night at 10:40 to
confirm an earthquake had occurred in North Jersey. He quickly checked the
reports that come in from about 40 seismic stations in the Northeast and
detected a quake with a 3.0 intensity that was focused about two miles
underground.

"For New Jersey or the Northeast, a 3.0 is fairly big," Kim said yesterday.
"But in California, it would be nothing, just a small event," he laughed.

Kim said an average depth of a quake would be five or six miles. The
shallowness of Monday night's event resulted in more shaking, causing more
people to feel it, he said. If it had been focused deeper underground, it could
have gone almost unnoticed, he said.

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