The Halloween Shaking was Micro-Earthquake

Mike Doria
13WHAM-TV
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Wayne County, New York (US):
The mystery of the shaking many Ontario residents felt Halloween night has been solved:
a micro-earthquake struck Wayne County just before 7:00 p.m. Monday night; it registered 2.6 on the Richter scale of 7.
Emergency 911 operators received dozens of calls from people in northwest Wayne County and Webster reporting rattling booms throughout the night that shook their homes.
Some Ontario residents who called 13WHAM said it felt like something actually struck their homes.At first many discounted the rumblings as an earthquake because they seemed confined to a relatively small area.
However, experts say the earthquake's shallow depth--about a mile and half beneath the ground--limited the area affected.Earthquake Enthusiast Brad Timerson said, "If it's shallow…then all energy moves straight up, [which is] probably why people right above the epicenter would've been likely to feel it."There were also several light aftershocks.
Nov 02, 2005