Snooki rummaging through the liquor cabinet.

Freeking Fracking.

Either that or Chris Christie running by on his way to Dunkin' Donuts.

New York Yankee fans "busting" up the place after their "losing" sweep in the playoffs.

ROFLMAO! HA! Dunkin Donuts!

No, that was Snooki on the toilet. Either that or Candy "give the debate to Obama" Crowley came to town.

Most likely this was a meteorite exploding in the atmosphere. We are at the height of the Orionid meteor shower so this would be the most logical explanation.

delayed detonation from a shell

"Whole house started shaking, outside sounded like a bomb with slight shaking," said one from Little Egg Harbor

Here in Texas, we would we would start by investigatin' where the fart came from and who's responsible for it...

Relax NJ..as another poster already said... it was just your governor Christie jogging to Dunkin Donuts !

Nice theories, but I have it on good authority that Christie was jumping rope in an effort to....nah, that would never happen. Maybe he fell out of bed, or tripped on his way to Dunkin Donuts. (right on dirp!)

So why do they say it wasn't an earthquake. Do they have sensor equipment that said "No, definitely not an earthquake!"

All they say is that "No earthquake was reported." OK.... there was shaking reported, but they don't consider that a report of an earthquake.

Either they're missing what is right in front of them, or this is a poorly reported article.

It's the end of the world. Let us all run up our credit cards. The only way to leave life is in debt!

The shaking is probably Jimmy Hoffa trying to dig his way out.

Bush's fault

John Doe-2241225

So why do they say it wasn't an earthquake. Do they have sensor equipment that said "No, definitely not an earthquake!"

Actually they do have sensors that can pretty accurately detect earthquakes over the entire planet. So when the USGS says they measured no tectonic activity from both that area and at that time, there is a 99.9% chance they are right. They did log it as a possible sonic boom with an intensity of 0.0

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/2012_008/us/index.html

Must be Chris Christie, NJ Governor, walking by Brigantine, NJ.

Dont people report some of this days before there is a decent 4.0 or larger quake happen in the area?

It was Christie running from the limo to the 7-11 for some twinkies and a coke.

"until the whole untited states collaspe"

there's a tragedy for ya. May god help us all!

Just look at all these comments bashing the obese. The only disability where it seems to be publicly acceptable to demean the people so afflicted.

To all of you fat-cracking jokesters on here, congratulations for identifying yourselves as the unpleasant adult bullies you are. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Try if you can to bring your commentary up a notch beyond elementary school level fart jokes, would ya?

And by the way, fat-jokesters - appx. 35% of the US population is now struggling with weight issues. So way to go to insult 35% of us.

I would rather be an overweight nice person than a thin b!+ch any day.

bluthunder

Dont people report some of this days before there is a decent 4.0 or larger quake happen in the area?

Um, that 4.0 was in Maine. On Tues the 16th. No where near and totally unrelated to New Jersey.

Your all wrong. It's obvious it was Paul Ryan dropping a weight.

@ StrengthInNumbers

I am also in the 35%, and my first thought was governor Krispy Kreme farting. There are some things you just have to have a sense of humour about, and this is one of them.

I think the meteor theory is probably the true cause , seriously but on the other hand ?? I think your all wrong about Christie running to the Dunkin' Donuts....nope it wasn't an intake event it was an exchaust event ...it takes alot energy to keep things going in NJ when yer Guvnare ?...it was that morning mambojumbo super sized high test coffee it acted as a laxative to the point of the walking farts and as he was speaking to the full NJ assembly and in the middle of another long winded speech , nature called in dramatic fashion so he charged for the state senate/house camode with the full legislature in pursuit and flushed both his waste and the whole friggen' $h*tty lot of Joisee elected officials that followed him in there which is always a quality choice between tweedlie dee or tweedle dumb , guarranteed to look out for themselves and their particular group of cronies every election , all of them every single one of them were flushed into the Trenton sewer system at once which was caused by a huge legislative vaccum sucking them all in and the rattle & roll were the effects of the logjam after it had become dislodged and as it emptied at supersonic speeds thru the underground sewer pipes out to sea polluting the beautiful translucent brown waters of the Jersey Shore too a more darker more opaque brown sea water

BTW this could've happened to any of the last NJ Guvnares(Governors) be it Florio , Whitman , McGreivy , Corizine and the 1 or 2 part timers in their after McGreivy got his hands caught in the poo , literally...actually 1 of the part timers were better than any of the previous full timers and Christie has been better to way better than those afformentioned guvnares...so far

Atlas farted... shrugged, sorry!

Romney dropped his wallet.

StrengthInNumbers

And by the way, fat-jokesters - appx. 35% of the US population is now struggling with weight issues. So way to go to insult 35% of us.

Approximately 35% of the U.S. population is overweight. Considerably fewer of them are struggling with the issue. Although, if you take into account those who struggle with weight issues when somebody has to raise the armrest to sit next to them on an airplane, you may be right.

one other theory...F-22's are 1 of the few if not the only fighter type of an aircraft that can long range cruise at Mach 1+ speeds and a few were going the speed of heat in trail at a medium altitude since I believe their are some restrictions on the high altitude performance above 40,000ft for the F-22 due to the OBOGS O2 system problem and thats why the long duration of the event it was probably just off the coast doing an intercept exercise or it was a bunch of fighter jocks drag racing ?..F-22's were just recently flying here in NJ , they did 2 intercepts of puddle jumpers flying into restricted air space during that UN Ho' down in NYC..I live near the airport they guided those 2 too , and it was difficult to find the F-22's by sound in the sky the plane wasn't where the sound was coming from and the engines I recongonised as military sounding before finally spotting them and they were at a fairly low level...and I'm an ole' F-111 guy...I've had the experience of F-111's doing mach TFR flights across the New Mexico desert at the Melrose bomb range a few times... and it was "WHOOSH.....BOOM BOOM RUMBLE RUMblerumble rumble actually if you were fairly directly underneath the aircraft after it went by it was painful and took your breath away and the....sound went right thru you and the dust kicked up was like a sand blaster and ya' never really saw the plane except a brief very brief milisecond shadow go over before the chaos it was better to observe from a mesa further away overlooking the fake airfield they bombed and strafed..and another time I was in an MGB and one of them came ripping out of nowhere over the road(highway) I was on at night....shook the car and I felt it may have been lifted off the ground it scared the livin' sh*# out of me !!!...either it was a meteor or F-22's that would be my guess....and what the frack would you be frackin for near the frackin Joisie Shawre ?...so I would rule out the fracking

Okay, sonic booms...meteors...etc... they have quite an audible sound associated with them. The article says nothing about a noise. Just shaking. And this would have registered on seismographs. So...bull@!$%# abounds here. Something is up.

Oh yeah, I feel SO sorry for fat people. What's your excuse? Are you trying to stimulate the economy with all your Big Mac purchases and late night snacks? It's not working because you fat fu@#s are driving up medical costs with all your diabetes and heart conditions! You do realize that those of us that aren't fat find OVERweight people quite disgusting and lazy. You eat, put on some extra pounds, then get sleepier more often due to the extra pounds, so you sleep more and get just fatter and lazier and so on. Disgusting! Stop stuffing shi! in your mouth. It’s as simple as that! I hate seeing fat people on commercials and in the news. So dam nasty and then they are like oh poor me, or stop talking about my weight! DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Ugly people can't do anything, they are ugly, stupid people can't get smarter, they are stupid. But fat people, they can do something! It's called put down the fried chicken and walk until you can jog and jog until you can run! I do believe there are some people that do have certain genes and thyroid problems but the majority of you either learned bad habits from your hideously overweight and unhealthy parents or at some point you just let yourself go a-la-Honey-Goo-Goo. I know several fatties and every one of them acts like they don't know why the he!! they are fat, yet they are constantly putting food, candy, drinks in their bodies. (No not in their fat folds for storage I mean their mouth) You fatties try to hide behind the gene thing, oh I'm on this medication that makes me... um NO! Stop lying to yourself! Step away from the fridge and throw your cookie jar with your double stuffed Peanut Butter filled Oreos out your Dod Gamn window! Let me tell you it’s called survival of the fittest and it makes me wish insulin was never invented so you fat fu@#s could just all die slowly or whatever! But no, you take your insulin, park in handicap spaces right by the door, and get on a motorized shopping cart. I'll tell you if you have ANY handicap due to your gluttony, from heart conditions to bad knees or hips, your a$$ should have fatty parking as FAR away from the building as possible and you should be MADE to walk! Everything is so convenient for you!

And you talk about 35% of the nation being fat so it's ok. He!! no it don't make it okay! What if 35% of the nation cheated on their spouses, or 35% of the nation had committed a murder? On your line of thinking then it would be perfectly ok to be a cheater or murderer because “hey everybody is doing it?” NO! More fatties in the world don't make the shi! right! It makes it more wrong than ever. So cling to your lies you tell yourself and make yourself sleep better at night (get fatter). When you really should be self-conscious about it which would hopefully make you more apt to do something about it!

Fat people (shivers down my spine). And you can sit on here and say you don’t eat much and don’t do this or try to do this. You know deep down that shi! isn’t true! Tell you what, if you could just look down at your keyboard for me for a minute please. Wait turn on the light or get a flashlight and really look at your keyboard fatties. Ok are you looking, yes isn’t it soo nasty? See all those crumbs all that spillage. Pick up your keyboard or laptop and turn it over and shake it. You see all those crumbs coming out? Let me guess you have no idea how that got there? The fat gnomes put that there huh? If you are on a tablet, you see all those fingerprints? All those splashes on your screen? That’s how much you eat. It’s all over your shi!! Tell me it isn’t! Please go ahead! Keep lying to everyone else, your keyboard or tablet screen tells the real story!

P.S. I almost didn't post this due to its seeming meanness. However that is what is wrong with America these days. Everyone has to be politically correct and you can't step on anybody's toes so nobody ever hears the truth! Well I would rather step on your toes then have you fatties step on mine! OUCH! I’m talking about the REALLY fat people out there. You know who you are! Go EAT yourself!

That is all…

President Obama says: It was Bush's fault. You must vote for me. If you vote for Romney, the boogy man is gonna get ya!

Article too late,

P.S. I almost didn't post this due to its seeming meanness.

Your first impulse was the right one, but since you did, I think this says more about you than about them.

Sister lives in Old Orchard Beach, ME. Their earthquake last week, she said , sounded like a big bang such as in a stone snapping in half followed by a rumbling like low flying military aircraft without the noise. She got on geology website and started to look for mining and drilling using fracking. Unless New Jersey is using Christie to jump on ground to squeeze oil/gas out, look for signs of fracking which is cracking your underlying stone base. Course all the naysayers won't agree until your aquifer turns to poison and becomes undrinkable, too late.

But they keep telling us fracking is so safe! Would the officials lie to us??????

Spectra energy is building a gas pipeline that will end in Greenwich Village; anything to do with that!!!

Don't hold your breath waiting for an answer!! If it's anything like upstate NY has been getting, you will get 10 different answers from 10 different representatives of the company, none of which could be believed.

Chris Christy out walking, breaking wind, and now and then, clearing His throat.

I agree with you about fracking, Chicory. Wasn't New Jersey's one-year moratorium on fracking finished in August of this year? They're wasting no time.

Way to inspire, Article. I am printing that out and taping it to my desk. Kind of like a free drill sargent.

can ya...stop your harp'n...

Could have been a whole lot of things from the dark project closet or a natural events.. Most military induced sonic booms are a loud double pop followed by a second or two of rumbling that fades in another second or two.. Scram jet testing is done out west in the desert/mountain states and people out there are used to the sonic booms.. We are experimenting with vibrating matter at the rate the strings inside the quarks oscillate to induce cold fusion.. HAARP seems to be more geared to the electronic warfare EM force field defensive weapon platform as it is very large and requires a large power source.. Thoughts of using it as a directed anti missile shield started back in the Regan Star Wars technology development era.. The Russians were real pissed that we were so far ahead in missile deflection.. Add that to the directed high energy lasers we have and ballistic missiles would be obsolete.. The Air Force considered placing deployable reflectors in space that they could bounce this energy wave or laser around to targets over the horizon.. No big solar events to trigger an EM disturbance in the last few days.. We are in a comet debris field and sightings of large fire falls have been reported.. These are small slow movers so long event sonic booms would seem unlikely unless it was a big chunk of ice say 1 sq. meter and it got enough compression to detonate from hydrogen fusion.. If it did at a very high altitude the pressure wave might have lasted 15 seconds.. If it was something like a missile from Iran our government might not let us sheeple know but the freak Amajihad would have..

Tesla's Death Ray!

William The Clueless rattled, "Can I hear ya say "H.A.A.R.P."

Can I hear you "S.T.F.U."!

P.S. The Clueless One "rattled". He-he, there's a bad joke, considering the situation.

No but I can say C.H.R.I.S.T.I.E. ... ;)

Every time I hear some child try the "HAARP" line, I want to vomit at their gullibility.

@StrengthInNumbers: You sound fat.

If this was the 1890's or 1900's or so, they would say Nikola Tesla did it. Now you'd have to say it is possibly someone inspired by Nikola Tesla. There was a story about Tesla where there was intense shaking that covered a few blocks of New York City. The cops figured it must be Tesla. They came rushing up into his lab just in time to see him smash a device he had made with a sledge hammer. Evidently one of his experiments got a bit out of hand. He had made a certain type of mechanical oscillator. (I think they have one of them still at the Tesla Museum in Serbia.) Tesla had discovered the wonders of resonance. It is possible that a steady rhythm that either is electrical or mechanical can cause things to shake or to even break. If the rhythm of the oscillator matches the natural rhythm of the material, it will shake and even shatter. Tesla was rumored to have made a device that could cause an earthquake.

I am still thinking sonic boom from that comet remnants but a couple of fighters going vertical and supersonic could extend the rumble to 15+ seconds..

Didn't they test some kind of EM device on a ship in the Philly area at the end of WW2.. This might be a reverberation of space time..

Empress They have been studying resonant harmonic oscillation of atoms for years.. If they can modify and control the strings of energy bottled up inside quarks they will have mastered cold fusion.. In theory a cubic meter of H3 has enough energy to power the entire US for a year.. The downside would be if it runs away in a cascade it would annihilate every atom in our solar system.. Just maybe some of those super novas we see in distant galaxies are actually advanced life forms be destroyed by energy experiments going tragically wrong or immensely powerful weapons being detonated.. Several people have done things in the past that we still do not understand.. Tesla is one, the guy in Florida who figured out how to bend gravity and move huge blocks of coral stone and stack them.. The Z machine experiments were rumored to have been moved to the far side of the Moon because they feared that the danger from the energy release potential was dangerous and they did not want a several mile wide crater in the southwest US..

Most likely fracking. I hope their water hasn't been poisoned.

You guessed it - and your the only one.

Then there's the tin-foil hat denier - of course they don't believe fracking can cause an earthquake.

Ok. Now THAT was funny!!!

Ah, come on now....it couldn't have been the 'HUGE ONE' Christie......he wasn't in New Jersey.....again!

omh lol haha

That would have registered an 8.0 on the Richter Scale.

Take a pretty healthy pole to bust that fat ass!!

heard....there was a whole lot of shaken going on...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yRdDnrB5kM

Exactly. Sonic booms don't last for fifteen seconds and fracking is known to do things such as this.

I agree.Probably hydro fracking.

Fracking would show up as an earthquake. Read the story there wasn't an earthquake. This had nothing to do with fracking.

They don't want you to think it was an earthquake. So the government run seismology group say's "No Earthquake". So it must be true. No earthquake.

I live in central IL. About a month ago heard a huge bang sounded like right outside my window. Neighbors called police from all over my end of town, but all described it as coming from another direction. It was one loud bang. No rumble after and not a second one. About two weeks later heard another one, only this time it sounded more off in the distance. I waited for the power to go out because it sounded like a transformer blew, but no outage and same calls all reporting different areas they had heard it in. One loud bang. Nothing else. Listening to the scanner, I found it interesting that everyone thought it was coming from somewhere else, which leads me to believe that it came from up in the sky and not the ground.

Ok. I'm done. But it's hard telling what it was in Jersey, who was testing what and nobody will probably ever know for sure except the need to know group doing the testing.

I suppose it could be fracking related however it wouldn't appear to be a real earthquake. Nothing show up on the USGS real time earthquake site. They can detect some pretty low level quakes. This sounds like something very shallow and not fault related, maybe very localized. If it were generated in rock layers, they'd likely have detected it. Seems odd for sonic booms based on the durations.

Almost seems like it would have to be some movement in the upper soil layers if it weren't sonic related. However it appears to have been felt across several counties. Something obviously happened. Some reported 3 distinct booms associated with the following tremors. Sounds like the durations were fairly long though with one lasting at least 10 seconds. Been a while since I've felt sonic booms, but I never recall one where the rumble lasted that long. Generally they are one and done too, although maybe multiple aircraft were involved. Sounds like there are reports of two or three separate events between 5-10 minutes apart.

The fact that USGS didn't pick anything up gives sonic boom related events some credibility. But if that's the case, somebody knows but just isn't saying. ATC would likely be quite aware of any aircraft going that fast. Speed, altitude, size of the aircraft and atmospheric conditions all play a role as to what is heard and felt. The reports suggest this isn't typical.

http://www.truthlandmovie.com/

agree,@david...not the modern day myth of hydraulic fracturing

NOT FRACKING! It would be a zombie led assault before fracking would cause a loud noise through the air. Lets not forget folks, the American Center for Disease Control officially come out and sated there is no such thing as zombies... This obviously means there ARE ZOMBIES!!!!

@Geo-3053278 over the past few months i have heard the same thing a few times. it sounded like a transformer blowing up. I was expecting the power to go out as well. it was real late a night like between 11pm and 3 or 4am.

I live right out side of philly.

Do you feel fracked?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUNBwqovI9U&feature=related

Rusty shale both of the times that I heard it it was between 10:30 and 11 pm. The first one I was on the computer and it scared the crap out of me. I even went outside with a flashlight not finding anything, and went out the next morning in the daylight. Nothing. Originally it was so loud I was sure I was going to find someone who had shot themselves with a shotgun. The second sounded just like a transformer blowing during a thunderstorm and I was sure then the lights were going to go out. I don't know. They happened about two weeks apart and the last one was two weeks ago, so I'm due! Just waiting for the next one.

Note how the fracking opponents leap to ridiculous conclusions. Anything to support their bull@!$%# science!

Seems legit.

nah......that would be MITT, the herald of the end times.........

OH, mis-informed trouble......

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I agree with Matt

The only one I ever felt was in San Jose.

trouble...tmi...lol

I'd miss it!! I knew quite a few very nice people who live there.

That's Jersey, not "Jersy," moron. We can actually spell here, so yes, many would miss it.

That's exactly what I thought.
I remember 'round my way, the companies ran this LONG PR campaign about how "safe" and normal their drilling and fracking was. Like clockwork, two weeks after they finished construction on a new site about 3 minutes from my neighborhood, we had some serious tremors one night.
It was enough to knock pictures off the wall and to throw me out of bed.
Like what these people are describing, there was no noise, just a lot of shaking.

oooo............snap.

sincerely,

IU hoosier alum

It could be the famous "aurora spy aircraft" I have heard it has flown off the east coast on occasion.

Hmm, so clever, but it IS in fact the Garden State. Sounds like you're another idiot, simply perpetuating the ignorant opinions of other morons.

Check with Janet Evonavich.....it was Wulf........it's ok, Deisel survived.