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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2255075, member: 199"] When I lived in NYC a long time ago I was in one of those masonry buildings getting ready for work and noticed the water in the toilet moving just a little side to side - learned later that day in the evening papers that we had just had an earthquake centered somewhere in Westchester I think - about a 3. I had felt absolutely nothing, but it did get me wondering! Luckily the NE which does have lots of fault lines is pretty stable. There is a fault line that caused the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 and that seems to be the farthest east of the really big ones in 'recent' history - lots of debate as to whether that fault is still active - some say it has a hard block that prevents lots of small movements on the fault, storing up energy that gets released on average every 500 years - others that it is no longer active. [/QUOTE]