Native American names extend earthquake history of northeastern North America

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Mount Nashoba, now a popular ski area, is the "hill that shakes." Credit: John Phelan/ Wikimedia Commons In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong shaking and water sloshing out of the pots used by Native Americans to cook a midday meal along the St. Lawrence River, according to contemporaneous reports. When Roger Williams, founder of the Rhode Island colony, talked with local Native Americans, he reported that the younger tribe members were surprised by the earthquake. But older tribe members said they had felt similar shaking four times in the past 80 years. In his talk at the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, Boston College seismologist John Ebel urged his colleagues to collect more information about past ... Read full article.