Earthquake - Oct. 29 at 9:00 pm mst

A couple of links from NMT and the USGS about the earthquake. It was widely felt/heard around Socorro, including by me. :) It was so loud it showed up on the infrasound detector on campus. In fact many people though the earthquake was an exposion at first, since explosions are set off every day by the materials engineering people. The sounds was apperently due to the high frequency waves from the earthquake transmiting into the air. It was only a M 2.4, but the epicenter was so close to socorro (3.5 km) that it was widley felt and hear by most of the town.

This is a picture from the Helicorders at the university. I will try and post a picture of the paper records latter.



















This is a picture of the paper records from the earthquake. There are a bunch of smaller earthquakes as well as the "big" one. I counted close to 200 earthquakes on this days paper! The eartquake starts at the red arrow. (this is not the whole paper, just part of it) The long dark lines are trains passing by. I counted almost 200 earthquakes on this paper. Most of which were really small.