To answer my own question:

<http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/xEyG3JTL-0Y/why-was-the-east-coast-earthquake-felt-so-far-from-the-epicenter.ars>

Old, cold, dense crust...

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Bruce Johnson
UA College of Pharmacy


On Aug 23, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Reading the news reports indicates that it was felt across a wide swath of 
> the eastern US.
> 
> I wonder why this is...after all CA gets much bigger ones all the time and 
> while we can detect them here, we can't usually feel them, even the really 
> big ones like Loma Prieta.

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