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John McPhee, who has contributed stories to The New Yorker since 1963, including many about geology and earthquakes, was in Princeton, New Jersey, about thirty miles from the epicenter. โMy whole house shook,โ he told me. He had never experienced an earthquake before, but had always wanted to. โIโm ninety-three years old, and I waited ninety-three years for the earthquake.โ McPhee immediately understood the rarity of Fridayโs tremor. Seismological activity of this type usually occurs along faults that separate tectonic plates, and the New Jersey area is not considered an active plate boundary.
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Post-Shitposting (dark woke edition)
John McPhee, who has contributed stories to The New Yorker since 1963, including many about geology and earthquakes, was in Princeton, New Jersey, about thirty miles from the epicenter. โMy whole house shook,โ he told me. He had never experienced an earthquakeโฆ
In 1979, a mild earthquake rattled the unincorporated community of Cheesequake, New Jersey, which is about twenty-five miles from Princeton. It did very little damage, except to a science classroom at a local school. McPhee was away from home at the time, but he wrote about it in his book โAssembling California,โ and continued to hope that he would live through a quake. He remembered talking with a nephew who had lived through several in Los Angeles. โHe was constantly telling me about being at grocery stores with bottles and cans falling off the shelves,โ McPhee said. โI envied him! I donโt envy him anymore.โ
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