Rogue Wave

[bigcat1]

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news...59/detail.html

[rmoody79]

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news...59/detail.html

http://www.boston.com/news/local/bre...p1=Local_Links

I wonder if this small earthquake in SE mass had anything to do with the wave.

[amarshall]

That had to be one hell of wave to put a hurting on a whale watch boat. Seas are 3-6 today.

[rmoody79]

the article says that the wave was 7 ft high, but i would think a 106ft whale watch boat would be able to take that?

[Col. Kurtz]

That's absolutely fascinating to me if it turns out there was a rogue wave correlated with that minor tremor south of the Cape.

Btw, when the hell did we start getting earthquakes around here?

[ElMar2530]

May 21st is judgment day.

[MACSON]

Btw, when the hell did we start getting earthquakes around here?

Pligrims experienced an estimated magnitude 6-7 in early 1600s. Couple other big ones in early 1700's. New England area has probably experienced well in excess of a thousand since the pligrims arrived up to the present--most on the low end of magnitude 2-4, but still measurable.

NE is not the hot spot that other areas of the country (california) or world (Japan), but it is siesmologically active and given areas of high population density and the historical record of significant magnitude (the estimated 6+ magnitudes in the 1600 and 1700), potential/probability of significant earthquake issue is not as remote as one might think.

[Col. Kurtz]

Btw, when the hell did we start getting earthquakes around here?

Pligrims experienced an estimated magnitude 6-7 in early 1600s. Couple other big ones in early 1700's. New England area has probably experienced well in excess of a thousand since the pligrims arrived up to the present--most on the low end of magnitude 2-4, but still measurable.

NE is not the hot spot that other areas of the country (california) or world (Japan), but it is siesmologically active and given areas of high population density and the historical record of significant magnitude (the estimated 6+ magnitudes in the 1600 and 1700), potential/probability of significant earthquake issue is not as remote as one might think.

...for the info, MACSON. I was aware of our tornado history in these parts, but had no idea that we've had that much seismic activity.

[SoBoSlow]

My recollection of 7th grade Earth Science (mom was the teacher) is that New England is a hot bed of seismic activity. A quick google found this to support that memory:



Other irrelevant facts that I seem to recall are:
1) The Mississippi ran backwards (yeah I know not New England...but not LA either) due to an earthquake in the 1800s. (google seems to support the earthquake not sure about the running backwards.
2) The way I learned it the New England seismic activtiy was due to the rebounding of the area after the compression caused by the weight of the glaciers in the last ice age (google seems to indicate this is no longer the pervasive understanding of the cause for intraplate seismic activity.

Have a great day

[JSeas]

Not 100% sure on this, but I think I remember from my course in Plate Tectonics that although the New England Area is prone to seismic activity it is usually rather mild. This is due to the type of plate movement that we have in this region.

California faults and the ones off Japan tend to lock up and build a lot of pressure, releasing all at once in a more powerful earthquake. Ours don't lock up, so earthquakes are very mild.

I THINK that is correct....

JSeas