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Where: Fenney Village, close to 301, near pitch and putt
Last felt: 07/13/2023 (intermittently 1-2x per month before that)
What: House shakes for 2-3 seconds
Ask next door neighbor: She has been a resident for 3 yrs, also feels these tremors

I called DistrictGov they are unsure.
However, I suspect it's blasting 5-7min away in new areas being build.

Does anyone know what this shaking could be caused from?

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Originally Posted by coffeebean (Post 2218633)

We don't have to deal with any of that quarry stuff in the LSL area.

Yep, but you do have to deal with old roofs and old HVAC systems. The quarry has been blasting for 30 years or so and never saw a report of damage to any village home.

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Originally Posted by Escape Artist (Post 2218842)

To my knowledge, there’s only been one or two occurrences of sink holes in The Villages. How can you tell which areas are prone to it and is all the overdevelopment in The Villages a cause for concern on this issue? (Don’t mean to hijack this thread but since the subject was already mentioned a couple of times…)

There's a ground collapse three houses away from mine right now, in the street. A month ago there was a different one that'd been there for three months before it was finally filled in and re-sodded, and that was around the corner, also on my street. Another happened also on the "historic side" that half-swallowed someone's car while they were driving up the road, and it collapsed under their wheels.

A sinkhole is a type of ground collapse. Sinkholes are natural occurrences that are common throughout Central Florida, also known as Sinkhole Alley.

Other kinds of ground collapses can be caused by defective retention pond lining, inferior retention pond lining, inferior engineering standards for road building, poor or insufficient road maintenance, pipe leaks and bursts under the ground, and a handful of other things that would not have happened if people didn't build on sand and limestone.

Most of the Villages ground collapses aren't sinkholes, but we do get lots of them. Most of them don't make the news because they're as unremarkable as pot-holes are in New York City.

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Originally Posted by NE2VillageLife (Post 2236365)

Did you read the previous 60 posts and not find your answer??
It’s there.

Thank you everyone for the tremors info.

I believe I do have my answer that it is BLASTING around the Quarry area.
I called DistGov again and they could not confirm "blasting", but alluded to it. So it lines up to what everyone is saying here.

I will not worry for now since it is infrequent. And, it does occur early morning / mid-day during a weekly "work day." Thus, a construction crews likely work hours.

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Originally Posted by NE2VillageLife (Post 2236396)

That’s the right attitude……….enjoy life!😀