[TriLUG] OT tremor

[Peter Neilson]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:09:02 -0400, John Riselvato <jdriselvato at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I was in geology class. I didn't notice it unfortunately, but everyone  
> in my class was freaking out. Go figure that we would be in geology  
> during this
> time, so rest of the class was based on this topic.

Around 1980 a neighbor of mine who was a seismologist at Harvard told me  
that MIT seismologist Kei Aki ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiiti_Aki )  
would be giving a talk at MIT on the history of earthquakes in New  
England. He thought I might like to attend. In the middle of Aki's talk  
the building swayed with an earthquake! Everybody immediately ran over to  
the seismograph room that had recorders telemetered from Boston College's  
Weston Observatory. Aki was roundly congratulated for being able to cause  
an earthquake to appear during his talk.