What was that?

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Around 10:35 pm, Feb 3, we heard and felt a huge explosion. We used to hear stuff from Picatinny Arsenal, which is about two miles north and north-west of us. But this was louder than I remember.
It was big enough to get all the neighbors outside talking, in spite of the snow flurries. And this ain't that kind of neighborhood. I don't even remember half of their names.

On the 11:00 news, NBC (New York) and "News 12 New Jersey" said it was a 3.0 magnitude earthquake. (About ten miles east of us is the tiny Ramapo fault line, running mostly north to south.)

I don't think so.

I've never felt a major earthquake, but I would expect a long, rumbling thing. This was a quick, sharp explosion, followed by a short rumbling. I couldn't tell the direction, but my daughter said it sounded like a truck slammed into the north side of the house.

On the news, they named the towns Kenville & Roxbury, which are south and south-west of us, and Morris Plains is south-east (close to the Ramapo). They said no one reported any damage. No dishes falling off shelves, etc.

The more I think about it, the more I don't buy it.

A magnitude 3.0 quake, epicenter Morristown N.J. depth about 2 km.

That's way down to the southeast.
I still say it came from the north, like all the little booms.

What do you think it was? Something sinister?

Always. I wouldn't put anything past them anymore. All sanity went out the window years ago. I just feel silly calling someone from down that way. My sister is on the other side, about equidistant from Morristown. If she thinks it was just as loud as I did, then I'm just being paranoid. If she says "what earthquake?" that would be scary. I Gotta think of an excuse to call someone.