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M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake

EGreg 3y ago
Is it possible that a larger aftershock or swarm is coming? How do these things work usually? Last time something like this happened was 25 years ago… https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/aftershocks-swarm-what-difference-and-what-do-they-mean https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/aftershocks-swar...
- ccurrens 3y ago
  USGS suggests that this was a main earthquake of a series. I guess there was one mid march https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=us7000ma74&extent=40.64795,-74.79466&extent=40.70205,-74.7054&autoUpdate=false&range=search&sort=largest&baseLayer=terrain&settings=true&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%22:%7B%22latitude%22:%2240.683%22,%22longitude%22:%22-74.7532%22,%22maxradiuskm%22:%2210%22,%22endtime%22:%222025-04-05T15:20:00.000Z%22,%22limit%22:%2220000%22,%22orderby%22:%22magnitude%22,%22starttime%22:%222024-03-06T14:23:20.334Z%22%7D%7D https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureI... This event is identified as the potential mainshock of an earthquake sequence. From this URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/executive https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74...
- steanne 3y ago
  there WAS one follow-up so far this morning, currently being reported as a 2.0. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma7c/ https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma7c...
meepmorp 3y ago
It's now 7 km NNE of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, according to the linked page
- theandrewbailey 3y ago
  Thanks, I edited while I still could.
- jameshart 3y ago
  This makes it sound like the earthquake is ongoing and moving. For all our sakes, I hope that’s not the case.
altdataseller 3y ago
Didn’t even feel at all? Was in Queens, NY, strangely a couple of people around me felt it though
- Keegs 3y ago
  My building rattled for a good 15 seconds.
  - evanelias 3y ago
    Same here in northern NJ just outside Manhattan. It was extremely noticeable, my cat also freaked out briefly.
- guluarte 3y ago
  4.7 is literally nothing
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  - moate 3y ago
    It’s actually “moderate shaking and light damage expected”[1] but go off sis. (1)https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/executive https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74...
  - ziddoap 3y ago
    It is very obviously not "literally nothing", given the amount of people chiming in that they felt it.
  - chrinic74929 3y ago
    > 4.7 is literally nothing 4.7 quake at 1 km depth will shake more at the surface than a 6.0 at 30 km depth
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- __float 3y ago
  What is that helping, exactly? Most people have no idea what distinction that's drawing. The Wikipedia article says an ETS event is imperceptible to humans. This was not imperceptible.
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- ishtanbul 3y ago
  It says in the article that those are imperceptible to humans
- ziddoap 3y ago
  Not being familiar with the field, why would it be tremendously helpful to refer to it as a tremor instead of earthquake? Tremendously helpful to the people who felt it? Or to geologists?
  - smlacy 3y ago
    Tremor-endlessly helpful
- theandrewbailey 3y ago
  > Episodic tremor and slip (ETS) is a seismological phenomenon observed in some subduction zones that is characterized by non-earthquake seismic rumbling, or tremor, and slow slip along the plate interface. New Jersey is nowhere near a subduction zone, or any plate boundary.
- ChicagoDave 3y ago
  Only if giant worms attack.
sylens 3y ago
Sorry guys, that was me doing a git rebase
- moomoo11 3y ago
  Spit out my tea thanks lmao
- kibwen 3y ago
  $ git config --global alias.subduct rebase
- hk1337 3y ago
  Found the google engineer!
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- jmkni 3y ago
  skill issue
ribs 3y ago
I felt in here on Long Island, where I grew up, and am visiting from California, where I’ve lived for decades Right now in Huntington
moomoo11 3y ago
How common is East coast earthquak
- ssijak 3y ago
  very rare
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- klysm 3y ago
  I've lived on the east coast for 25 years and experienced 2 that were noticeable.
  - asveikau 3y ago
    I lived there for the first 23 years of life and experienced zero. I felt left out when I missed the 2011 one.
- xkcd-sucks 3y ago
  Pretty common, but small and rarely noticed [0]. Probably lots of construction and geotechnical engineering wouldn't have survived anything significant at least in the Northeast [0] https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=38.03944,-79.33228&extent=45.75219,-63.86353&range=search&showUSFaults=true&baseLayer=terrain&timeZone=utc&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%22:%7B%22starttime%22:%221900-01-01%2000:00:00%22,%22maxlatitude%22:42.816,%22minlatitude%22:41.2,%22maxlongitude%22:-69.593,%22minlongitude%22:-73.592,%22minmagnitude%22:0,%22orderby%22:%22time%22%7D%7D
- pixl97 3y ago
  It is very uncommon that they are very strong, but they can be rather severe when a big one occurs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886_Charleston_earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886_Charleston_earthquake
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pjsg 3y ago
I felt it in Mass -- I was working on the second floor. My wife was on the ground floor and didn't feel it. From our internal slack channel, this seems fairly common -- people on the ground floor don't feel it here in MA, but higher floors, they do feel it.
- ishtanbul 3y ago
  Im on ground floor and definitely felt it. In brooklyn. All the buildings around me were visibly shaking. Felt like a freight train going by 10 feet away, but eerily quiet.
- astockwell 3y ago
  Felt it in Hartford, CT!
- klysm 3y ago
  Also in MA on the second floor. Two of my roommates were standing and didn't notice it, but I definitely felt it sitting down
- ilamont 3y ago
  Felt it too outside of Boston. Thought the heat pump upstairs was having a serious malfunction.
- neilv 3y ago
  I felt it on an upper floor of a big old brick building in Cambridge. First thought was it was an earthquake, but then no signs other than that I could feel it in legs.
- nicwolff 3y ago
  I'm in a house up in Chelmsford, north of Boston – one person on the second floor felt it.
- Zigurd 3y ago
  This was my second minor quake that could be felt in Mass. I was driving both times. First time I thought my steering felt suddenly rubbery. I was in a rotary. Didn't notice this one.
blueflow 3y ago
Which fault caused it?
- kevin_thibedeau 3y ago
  Northeastern US quakes are typically the result of post-glacial uplift. The land is still rising and stress builds up over time.
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- moate 3y ago
  Likely Ramapo, but what do I know.
  - bobo_legos 3y ago
    I didn't stay at a holiday in last night, but I can read maps and it does seem like this one landed on the Ramapo fault line.
- steanne 3y ago
  there's a good general description of seismicity in the region here: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/region-info https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74...
_sword 3y ago
That was eerie! I felt my apartment building start to rock and sway as the walls were creaking. Not something I’m used to as a NY native, and not something I loved to experience 20+ floors above the ground.
- coldcode 3y ago
  I experienced a 3.8 (I think) in Dallas some years ago, 30 stories up. It was likely caused by oil drilling action in the area, as Texas is not an earthquake zone if I remember correctly. It was not fun, no dampers in that building.
- s-kymon 3y ago
  I thought it was a train or truck going by
  - _sword 3y ago
    I thought wind at first because it's been stormy lately
- rdedev 3y ago
  My first earthquake experience. I thought maybe I was imagining things but when the walls started to shake I got out
- foxyv 3y ago
  I remember being in a 4th floor office and feeling the building sway. I can't imagine how terrifying 20+ floors up would be.
  - 13of40 3y ago
    I was in the one in Seattle around 2000 on the 5th floor of a building, and I distinctly remember walking down the hall with the building swaying like a boat in a storm, wondering when the whole thing was just going to snap and crumble into a pile of rubble. Luckily it turns out they make modern buildings not do that. I've been back to that building and they still have cracks in the stairwell from it, though.
philip1209 3y ago
I experienced a 4.8 earthquake about a month ago in Tokyo, and noticed the shaking significantly. In Manhattan this morning, I didn't notice the 4.7 earthquake at all.
rohan_ 3y ago
My apartment in williamsburg was violently shaking for like 2 minutes
- christkv 3y ago
  I think i remember someone telling me when i was living in nyc that your area foundations are a lot of clay. That would probably amplify the sensation of a quake.
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wumeow 3y ago
Japan, Taiwan, New York, this is apparently the year of the earthquake.
- seydor 3y ago
  4.7 is not really a strong earthquake, it s routine in earthquake-prone zones
  - chrinic74929 3y ago
    > 4.7 is not really a strong earthquake, it s routine in earthquake-prone zones NYC quake was at shallow depth. 4.7 quake at 1 km depth will shake more at the surface than a 6.0 at 30 km depth
    - neogodless 3y ago
      In this case, it's a 4.8 mwr at 4.7 km depth.
    - renewiltord 3y ago
      USGS shows it as 4.8 at 4.7 km https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=us7000ma74&extent=40.01079,-76.23688&extent=41.39123,-73.27881 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureI... The Belden quake is 4.4 at 7.8 km, and 4.2 at 5 km. It's a log scale so the Whitehouse quake is much larger, but the significance of the quake seems to be more than just these numbers because Belden quake is irrelevant (didn't make the news really). Sarupathar was a 5.8 (huge comparatively) at 10 km. Hualien was 5.1 at 15.9 km and talked about more than Sarupathar. So the defining aspect appears to be how many people are within range of the epicenter rather than just raw depth and magnitude. Which makes sense, I suppose. We care about how population centers encounter the movement!
      - ylyn 3y ago
        > Hualien was 5.1 at 15.9 km That's just an aftershock. The main quake was three days ago. M 7.4 according to USGS: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000m9g4/executive https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000m9g4... So for an earthquake that's almost 1000x as strong, you'd think it'd be talked about more.
1970-01-01 3y ago
Show us your failed 3D prints!
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- dotnet00 3y ago
  Well tuned 3d printers are somewhat surprisingly mostly unaffected by earthquakes. People have even done stuff like hanging a printer and printing without any significant issue. It'd just show as a slight imperfection on that specific line.
  - jjk166 3y ago
    Makes sense, as long as the force creating the vibration is acting on both the extruder and the bed so they don't move relative to one another it shouldn't really matter.
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caretak3r 3y ago
Was on a call with my boss reluctantly explaining how kubernetes works. I felt the rumble, thinking it was just my discomfort with the state of affairs in my company. Might as well have been a fart in the wind.
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sethammons 3y ago
A number of years ago, in SoCal (where earthquakes are nothing too special), we had a similar sized quake (maybe a tad bigger). One guy from Denver was out and his eyes went big and wasn't sure what to do -- everyone else just kept talking and moved away from the big glass windows haha.
- gwbas1c 3y ago
  For my first quake in CA, I was peeing. (I'm a man and I pee standing up.) The shower doors next to me started to rattle, so I thought the people above me were jumping around. I didn't realize it was a quake! (The stream kept going where it was supposed to go.) I came out of the bathroom and my roommate was terrified. It was even funnier when my mom called me in a panic and I told her what happened.
spopejoy 3y ago
I'm in Brooklyn and felt it while on a call with an NJ resident who was the first to say "are we having an earthquake??" Do earthquakes have a propagation speed? Might she have felt it before me?
- pxx 3y ago
  Yes, the speed of sound (through the earth, so faster than the speed of sound in air); yes. In California, typically usgs has earthquakes posted before I can feel them. They didn't have this one a few minutes after I felt it, so I feel like automatic earthquake detection is off in this area of the US.
  - andrewla 3y ago
    Same experience -- felt a shaking; thought maybe a heavy truck had passed by for a second, then saw that all the monitors were swaying. Checked USGS and saw nothing, so figured it was nothing, because on the west coast they have the reports up lickety split. Half hour later everyone's phone started buzzing with the automated alert.
  - gcr 3y ago
    I received the earthquake alert about 45 minutes after it occurred.
    - cj 3y ago
      The Apple alert came in at 12:05pm warning of aftershocks but not the primary event.
  - Lance_ET_Compte 3y ago
    In the Bay Area, everyone gets an SMS message that says an earthquake is coming. I've felt/heard the shaking 10-20 seconds later. Some industrial equipment shuts down to avoid damage.
    - nashashmi 3y ago
usernamed7 3y ago
I was laying in bed and thought I'd sleep a little bit more. the earthquake wasn't violent, but certainly noticeable. It was similar to someone walking on my roof, without the banging.
- melling 3y ago
  I thought a tree fell on the house. It was loud. We occasionally get branches that make a bang on the roof. I’m about 15 miles from the epicenter.
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aragonite 3y ago
I distinctly remember the first time I created a Twitter account (& probably became aware of Twitter being a thing) was the day when a similar earthquake was felt in NYC back in 2011...
- ModernMech 3y ago
  Yes! It was in the fall. The epicenter of that one was near Virginia though I think. Edit: Here it is. It was the end of August which I consider the Fall cause that's when the Fall semester starts for me ^^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virginia_earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virginia_earthquake
  - gabeio 3y ago
    I remember this earth quake! I missed it lol. I happened to be driving and we got out of the car to see a tv telling us how we got hit with an earth quake and my friend and I looking at one another like "what did we miss". This time I happened to be on the second floor of a small office building. I was about to run out of the building if it started to get worse I wasn't sure it wasn't the building having an issue.
- SamPatt 3y ago
  I worked in northern Virginia at the time, fairly close to the epicenter. Our office building shook violently. A poor woman I worked with was quite panicked, dove under her desk... and admonished me afterward for staying calm?
ajdude 3y ago
I felt it in Delaware!
ModernMech 3y ago
This is the second quake I've felt in Pennsylvania. The first was in 2011. I was born here and lived here for my whole life except for 4 years when I lived in CA, where I didn't feel any earthquakes.
- jvolkman 3y ago
  Yeah, since I moved to Seattle in 2011 there have been two largeish quakes in the northeast. I have yet to feel one in Seattle. Of course now I've jinxed myself.
davidjhall 3y ago
In Connecticut - rattled the windows and shook books off the bookcase.
sunshine_reggae 3y ago
The marketing team at Rumble.com is really innovating these days, getting people to switch over from Youtube.
- tomrod 3y ago
  I hadn't heard of rumble yet. But after reviewing it, of course this exists...
  - tombert 3y ago
    I actually do use Rumble (there are some more controversial-but-also-left-leaning creators that got banned from YouTube that I like), but man the ads on there are insane. COVID conspiracy theories, vaccine "alternatives", political ads for obscure Republican candidates, stuff like that. Fortunately, at least for now there's not a lot of ads (I suspect that they can't find a lot of mainstream advertisers), so generally I only got to watch one of those ads before the video starts.
    - sunshine_reggae 3y ago
      I don't know - for example, here is a video of a couple of scientists who explain in detail how they have analyzed the vaccine contents and how authorities then have reacted to their complaints: https://rumble.com/v4n6hsn-analysis-on-covid-19-vaccines-performed-by-prof.-lorena-diblasi-and-dr.-mar.html https://rumble.com/v4n6hsn-analysis-on-covid-19-vaccines-per... Would you still call such content a conspiracy theory?
      - nielsbot 3y ago
        Absolutely. The subtitles open with "so-called vaccine against COVID-19" and "with all this fraud that is which is being carried about by the WHO". These vaccines have been seriously studied for year and now billions of people have taken them. Safe enough, ok?
      - tombert 3y ago
        I made it clear that these were the ads, not the direct videos. That said, the COVID vaccines are safe and saying otherwise is kind of intellectually dishonest. Just because you can find one video where they "analyzed the vaccine contents" doesn't discount all the research and sampling data that has been taken. If you haven't gotten the COVID vaccine, you probably should.
luxuryballs 3y ago
way to go Frank https://ssgeos.org/ https://ssgeos.org/
- radres 3y ago
  well, potential regions do not include east coast US at all.
  - luxuryballs 3y ago
    yeah I bet it’s impossible to forecast location very easily because of how complex and unpredictable the actual plates and crust of the earth might be, but it’s cool to track when the forces would be compounding due to alignments of these massive bodies
jedberg 3y ago
For those of you who didn't grow up in earthquake country, some tips: DO NOT get into a doorway, that's a myth. It's not a terrible place to be if it's a doorless frame, but if there is a door, it's more likely you get injured from the door smacking you than the earthquake. DO get under a strong table. That's the safest place to be in a quake if it happens when you are indoors. If you're outside get as far away from trees and power lines as possible (and glass), but if the ground is shaking too hard to maintain balance, stay in place. Again, you're more likely to get injured falling down than from whatever may be nearby. If you're inside and not near a table, at the very least cover your head if possible and move away from bookcases and other tall or top heavy objects. Also, if you did feel it, please help the USGS study earthquakes by filling out a Did You Feel it survey: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/dyfi/intensity https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74...
- duxup 3y ago
  I suppose depending on the structure and the individual's inclination strong table might be a good call. But in my single family home situation it really doesn't take more than a few seconds and I can be out the door provided I'm not knocked off my feet entirely type situation.
  - nostrademons 3y ago
    Being out the door is usually riskier than being inside a wood-frame SFH. You're exposed to falling trees, branches, power lines, and roof debris, as well as unsecured cars or other loose items. Wood-framed 1-2 story SFHs almost never collapse in an earthquake; the wood can bend to absorb the shock, and there's a lot of redundancy in the studs, and not a whole lot of weight on floors above you.
    - duxup 3y ago
      I guess I'm fortunate / unfortunate that my outdoors ... doesn't have a lot of that. It might be interesting to somehow determine earthquake injuries / ability to get in or outdoors and measure the real risk from actual events.
MisterTea 3y ago
Holy shit what a ride! Sitting at home in my office in Ozone Park NYC and I hear what I think is a low flying plane coming in to JFK. Happens when weather is bad and they come in lower they can rattle my windows. But the intensity grew suddenly and my entire house was shaking and everything was rattling. At first I froze for a few seconds as I could not make sense of what I was experiencing - but it was clear this was not normal so I ran like hell downstairs and outside. While running I was trying to make sense of the shaking: did a truck or plane crash? no not this long - maybe the elevated A train up the block is collapsing? An explosion? some kind of cataclysm? WTF is happening! But after I reached the side door and the house was still shaking I realized this is an earthquake. Earthquake was not the first thing on my mind for sure as I have lived in NYC all my life and never felt anything like this. Fucking nuts
- noman-land 3y ago
  Thanks for the exciting first person account.
- swozey 3y ago
  I've never been in an earthquake it's got to be such a strange thing to experience the first time. Hearing tornado sirens for the first time was wild, especially as a Silent Hill fan. On the other hand my friend moved to Brooklyn from Haiti after their terrible quake so he's in a mood right now.
  - pixl97 3y ago
    A number of decades ago I took a trip out to California for the first time and we had reached our friends house pretty late. After driving for 12+ hours straight I passed out on the floor. In the middle of the night I was awoken by what I thought was a large truck out front, like a garbage truck or something. But it kept getting closer and more intense and everything started shuffling around in the house with a shik-shik-shik-shik noise and the blinds started rapping off each side of the window sill. When you experience something new like this where your brain kind of spins around in circles not knowing what to do, then it came back with the answer of Earthquake! which I involuntarily yelled out loud. My next thought was "Is this going to get worse, and what do I do if it does". I was in a new place that I had barely even looked at before falling asleep. Thankfully it subsided after 20 seconds or so without any major incident. Was hard to fall back to sleep that night.
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cute_boi 3y ago
I got alert after 10 mins of earthquake .....:(
- mmmmmbop 3y ago
  Yeah I found that pretty strange. I felt the earthquake, and searched Google for "earthquake nyc" results in the last hour - found nothing. 10 or 20 minutes later my phone starts buzzing informing me that there had been an earthquake. Seems rather pointless.
  - dzdt 3y ago
    Phone alert came here 1hr40min after the quake. [shrug] yes pretty useless
  - devb 3y ago
    I think the alert is to try to get people to stop calling the police to ask/inform them about what they felt.
HarHarVeryFunny 3y ago
Yep - felt it here in northern NJ, as did friends in NY and CT. Working from home - all windows rattling/etc - first thought something was happening inside house, then looked outside expecting something massive driving by perhaps! Kids at high school did classroom emergency shelter-in-place.
poidos 3y ago
TIL that part of the world is seismically active. No idea why I thought it wasn't. Funny gap in knowledge there! Hope folks are ok.
scrumper 3y ago
Felt that very strongly in southern Westchester county NY. Not like the 2011 earthquake I felt in NYC, which was kind of slow and made the building I was in sway violently; this was more like the vibrations from a huge truck passing nearby, but more intense. Loud and very unpleasant, about 15 seconds duration. Did not like that at all, am now inspecting all our services like gas and water for disruption, checking for cracks and so on.
- mtalantikite 3y ago
  There actually was a large truck coming down my block in Brooklyn at the same time it started and it took me a second to realize that no, it actually was an earthquake. And I definitely agree, the 2011 one was more of a sway, this felt like a rumble.
  - hateful 3y ago
    I'm on Long Island and there was a train passing at the same time.
  - TuringNYC 3y ago
    Funny you say that! I live in NJ now and felt the quake today. I just brushed it away as a truck passing by (I grew up in Brooklyn.) In NYC, it is so common for large trucks, major construction, pile drivers, subways running under the building, bad roads causing trucks to shake, etc...that I am just used to this. I have not yet gotten accustomed to the stillness of suburbs despite being here for years now. (Side note: In NYC you can also get stillness and quiet, usually by going upwards into skyscrapers)
- georgeecollins 3y ago
  As a native Californian this provokes a bit of a chuckle. Try a six plus sometime! But seriously, I hope everything is fine.
  - __loam 3y ago
    Buildings a quite a bit older on the east coast and building codes are obviously more lax so we should probably have some empathy here haha.
ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
I felt that (I live on Long Island). I thought it was construction vehicles. We've had a lot of heavy construction around here. What made it clear it was different, was my cat didn't like it, and he ignores the construction.
- floxy 3y ago
  Speaking of cats and earthquakes, I just watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ-p9qOhBv4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ-p9qOhBv4 ...again. This is a Cat Cafe in Japan, and you can clearly see the cats get alerted to something ~10 seconds before the shaking starts. Do we have an idea of what they are reacting to?
  - ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
    Huh. You do hear about animals reacting before earthquakes. My cat did alert before the quake, but didn't really scoot, until the shaking started. He was sitting on my lap, at the time. I'm glad he didn't extend his claws. I suspect some kind of subsonics that come before the shaking really gets going. It can take a bit of time to get a rhythm going, so the earthquake may actually be under way for a bit, before we really feel it.
  - devb 3y ago
    They are feeling the p-wave, which arrives just before the s-wave that you feel as shaking: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-can-animals-predict-earthquakes-180960079/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-s...
Scubabear68 3y ago
Live 25 miles South West of epicenter. It went on for I guess 30 seconds or so. Everyone in the house completely confused as we had never been in a quake before. Very low level vibrations, very very loud sound. Very foreign to New Jersey folks!
JohnTHaller 3y ago
In NYC. This was much stronger than in terms of local shaking than the others of the last 25 years. Living on the 4th floor of a 90+ year old building. My fridge was trying to walk across the floor.
- eggy 3y ago
  Were you always on the 4th floor for the others? You would feel it more the higher up you are as the building resonates.
  - JohnTHaller 3y ago
    The last larger one in, iirc, 2011 I was. Same apt. Definitely stronger.
ylee 3y ago
My father is a very light sleeper. During my childhood in NYC, more than once an earthquake woke him up.
markbnj 3y ago
We're almost exactly 10 miles north of the epicenter near Oldwick, NJ. We experienced several sharp jolts that sent some items tumbling off shelves and shook my ember full of coffee off its charging coaster (or I spilled it in reacting to the jolt, idk really), followed by a gentle shaking that lasted 30 seconds or more. This is the first one I can recall feeling since we moved here in 1995.
geophile 3y ago
Lots of “was that an earthquake”? discussion in r/somerville (MA)
jmspring 3y ago
Earthquakes are apparently rare on the East coast. We had a 4.8/4.9 here near the census designated place of Belden in Plumas County CA yesterday evening. Others farther away felt it. I didn’t. Cats didn’t react either. Unless it’s a sharp quake, or in the mid 5s, I mostly don’t notice them.
throwaway743 3y ago
I legit slept through this?? Had to take an ambien last night because of my insomnia. Who knew insomnia could potentially be fatal?
joecool1029 3y ago
I'm near epicenter, felt the foreshock a few weeks ago too: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000mix0/executive https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000mix0...
- whycome 3y ago
  What if this is just another foreshock?
  - joecool1029 3y ago
    Considering the aftershocks are way less intense, probably not. I've felt 2 now, last one was just a few minutes ago, parents confirmed (they are about same distance from epicenter but I'm northwest, they are southeast of it) EDIT: waiting for usgs to update with latest but here's all the ones associated with event https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=us7000ma74&extent=40.40827,-74.92607&extent=40.95709,-74.58&autoUpdate=false&range=search&sort=largest&baseLayer=terrain&map=false&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%22:%7B%22latitude%22:%2240.683%22,%22longitude%22:%22-74.7532%22,%22maxradiuskm%22:%2210%22,%22endtime%22:%222025-04-05T15:20:00.000Z%22,%22limit%22:%2220000%22,%22orderby%22:%22magnitude%22,%22starttime%22:%222024-03-06T14:23:20.334Z%22%7D%7D https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureI...
tombert 3y ago
Felt this all the way in Brooklyn. My wife and I thought it was just some heavy sustained road construction nearby; it was a bit shakier than usual for that, but the last thing we thought it was was an actual earthquake. Fortunately, at least in our area, there doesn't appear to be any kind of damage.
neogodless 3y ago
Curious about the 4.7 vs 4.8. Official source here says 4.8 but title says 4.7. APNews did something similar showing 4.8 in the headline but 4.7 in the text. Coincidentally the depth is 4.7 km. Wonder if there's just a transpose error and a lot of copy/paste.
- jedberg 3y ago
  Earthquake magnitude usually changes a bunch in the first hour or two as new data comes in. For example some of the data comes from stations on the other side of the planet, and it takes a while for the wave to propagate that far.
  - neogodless 3y ago
    That's one possible explanation, though I've been on usgs.gov a lot from the first I heard of this, and I've only ever seen 4.8 on it. Odd, also that the OP sharing this shared a link to 4.8 but put 4.7 in the title. But the text on that page might trick your eye, between "M 4.8 - 7 km N" and "Magnitude 4.8 mwr Depth 4.7 km".
    - asveikau 3y ago
      Those of us in California are used to this. We feel the shake and look it up, and see one number. News articles get written with one of those numbers. After a while it changes, possibly a few times, to some number close to the initial report.
- ccurrens 3y ago
  I've been watching USGS since I felt it. It was originally 4.8, then it was 4.7 for a little bit, and they brought it back up to 4.8.
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trashface 3y ago
Felt it in western philly suburbs near valley forge. My roof was shaking but it was weird, thought it was a helicopter overhead. Didn't even realize it was a quake. Over in seconds.
MarCylinder 3y ago
That was fun. My folks place is essentially a 5 minute drive from the epicenter. I'm about an hours drive. Our experience was pretty similar. Looks like reported depth was 5km, making this a very shallow earthquake
recck 3y ago
Felt it in Southwest CT for a solid 15-20 seconds. Definitely thought it was a very large truck going by, but also felt like our solar panels were falling off the roof.
- busyant 3y ago
  Didn't feel it at all in central CT. My brother in northern NJ said he was briefly evacuated from his building.
bitwize 3y ago
I once experienced an earthquake in Connecticut. The weird thing was, just before it happened I heard/felt a very peculiar thrumming in my ear, like the air was exerting vibrating pressure. They say that animals can detect earthquakes before they happen. I think I might have an idea as to how.
benraz123 3y ago
Felt a slight shake. House was unaffected however.
cushychicken 3y ago
Felt it and I’m in MA. Boston area.
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jcims 3y ago
Just saw this a few days ago: https://stationview.raspberryshake.org/ https://stationview.raspberryshake.org/ Not a ton of coverage in the area but it was picked up.
megous 3y ago
40 such earthquakes happen daily in the world. So?
- bee_rider 3y ago
  We don’t get this kind of stuff in the Northeast and it is a relatively population-dense area of the US. Also it is sort of the news center of the country.
- theandrewbailey 3y ago
  Earthquakes are not evenly distributed, and quite rare in New England.
thakobyan 3y ago
I was in jersey city and our building literally shaked. It was very scary to say the least.
Simon_ORourke 3y ago
I felt that one too in upstate NY, more of a rumbling that anything more violent. Doesn't even come close to the one I experienced in Peru one time, where everything felt like a ship on rough seas... never want to live through that kind of quake again!
- hhshhhhjjjd 3y ago
  I prefer living through an earthquake than not!
exegete 3y ago
M 2.0 aftershock? https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma7c/executive https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma7c...
- always-open 3y ago
  Several aftershocks apparently: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=40.4809,-74.90547&extent=40.92493,-74.61021&autoUpdate=false&range=search&sort=largest&baseLayer=terrain&map=false&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%22:%7B%22latitude%22:%2240.7033%22,%22longitude%22:%22-74.7581%22,%22maxradiuskm%22:%2210%22,%22endtime%22:%222025-04-05T18:30:00.000Z%22,%22limit%22:%2220000%22,%22orderby%22:%22magnitude%22,%22starttime%22:%222024-03-06T14:23:20.490Z%22%7D%7D https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=40.4809,...
flakes 3y ago
Both me and my girlfriend were working from home today. Randomly our dog started crying and a few seconds later we felt the quake. Was pretty wild. Lots of rattling of furniture and plates in the cabinets. I guess my dog must have noticed the more subtle rumbles beforehand.
habibur 3y ago
5 km depth. That's of concern. Will shake a small region more violently than what a normal mag 4+ quake would have.
- bertil 3y ago
  Is that deeper or shallower than usual?
  - habibur 3y ago
    Shallower than usual. Very shallow quakes happen at 10 km to 20 km depth. This one is at 5 km.
bee_rider 3y ago
If any west-coasters are confused as to how this is news: the Northeast is sort of geologically unusual for the US in that we have almost no surprising, sudden weather thingies. No tornados, mild thunderstorm, occasional hurricanes (but they are usually weakened a bit compared to, like, Florida by the time they get up here and they’ve spent a long time going up the coast so they tend to be well tracked by forecasters), some flooding but not much, and no earthquakes. Our bad weather events are usually blizzards, which you can see coming and which take a while to accumulate. We’re right in the middle of the North American plate and the area is covered in gentle old hills and mountains. So, we’re all just not used to the planet surprising us!
- tzakrajs 3y ago
  What is a Nor'easter?
  - renegade-otter 3y ago
    A lot of cold water and maybe snow.
  - vlan0 3y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1992_nor%27easter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1992_nor%27easter
  - hijinks 3y ago
    its a lot of warm moisture that comes up the coast from the southeast and slams into cold air from canada and can drop a lot of snow/wind. It can cause bad storms in the ocean and high seas.
  - chimeracoder 3y ago
    > What is a Nor'easter? Literally: a cold hurricane. Some people misuse the term to mean "a blizzard affecting New England and/or the Northeast", but it actually specifically refers to a storm that's been pushed inland by sea winds coming from the northeast, off the Atlantic Ocean. That specific pattern results in a particularly cold and brutal storm. Nor'easters are technically cyclones, just like hurricanes, and the two are very similar in many regards. The difference is that a Nor'easter forms further north, in cold water, and it is actually strengthened by cold air, whereas hurricanes form further south and are diminished in strength as they cool off. https://scijinks.gov/noreaster/ https://scijinks.gov/noreaster/
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bickeringyokel 3y ago
Reading this on the toilet now wondering what my priorities would be if there was a quake in the next couple minutes.
- fictorial 3y ago
  Finishing up!
- bertil 3y ago
  That one is easy: You won’t shock anyone if you show up at the hospital with dirty underwear. You don’t want a trauma surgeon to say that they have to page the neuro-chir. Get under a doorframe, and put your pants up when your head is safe.
  - bickeringyokel 3y ago
    I thought the door frame thing was actually not a good idea? The mantra nowadays is drop, cover and hold on. Which might actually put you in a more precarious situation during said quake.
- Ylpertnodi 3y ago
  I can honestly say it happened to me. It's a very strange experience- lasted about 40 seconds. I'm about 300km from where the epicenter was. The main thing i worried about was the building collapsing, and my state of dress and 'activity' would become the stuff of memes and "did you hear about....?" stories.
nickjj 3y ago
I felt it on Long Island over 100 miles away. I had headphones on and thought a really heavy truck was shaking the ground. It was enough to make my desk and monitors shake but nothing too crazy.
- fullstop 3y ago
  I live about 20 miles from the epicenter and my neighbors said that their mirrors were shaking and monitors were wobbling. I felt nothing, at all, and my cats didn't move an inch. I'm pretty observant with that sort of thing, so I'm a bit surprised. Is it even possible for someone a few houses away to experience drastically different seismic activity? Edit: I was on the ground floor, which is likely why I did not feel it.
  - nickjj 3y ago
    If my eyes were closed I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between it and a washing machine running on a floor below you. I really only noticed it because my monitors were wobbling a decent amount. > Is it even possible for someone a few houses away to experience drastically different seismic activity? I'm not sure but there's probably variables around how sturdy things are (the foundation, floor, walls, desk, monitors, etc.). If I tap the side of my desk with the force of a golf clap the monitor wobble factor it about equal to the earthquake. I know in the US it's funny to measure things with weird units but that's the best I can do to associate the amount of force.
    - fullstop 3y ago
      I was at a desk which also has a bunch of my wife's art supplies on it. That stuff definitely would have moved.
renegade-otter 3y ago
I ran out because I thought the boiler was going to go kaboom.
bloopernova 3y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/05/earthquake-vasectomy-new-york-new-jersey https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/05/earthquake-v... Thankfully the surgeon wasn't "scalpel deep" during the quake!
nobody9999 3y ago
I'm in Manhattan (UWS) and live on the fourth floor of a five story walk-up. I felt the quake, but didn't realize that's what it was (I was a little confused as to why my building was vibrating -- for 40 seconds or so, as big trucks can do that but not for that long) until I received an emergency alert on my phone ~45 minutes later. Nothing broken or dislodged, just wondering why my building was vibrating fairly gently.
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joecool1029 3y ago
So since I live near epicenter, there's one thing that changed geographically very recently. Nearby round valley reservoir was being worked on for years, last fall they got the authorization to pump it back to full and it was told it might take years. Rainy asf winter though so it's pumped back almost full from already 66% to 92% now. I'm wondering if billions of gallons of water getting added nearby affected pressure on the fault. Here's today's operations data (we just had 3.5in of rain past couple days too): https://www.njwsa.org/uploads/1/0/8/0/108064771/data.pdf https://www.njwsa.org/uploads/1/0/8/0/108064771/data.pdf EDIT: just had another aftershock right after posting this. Felt the 2.0 a couple hours ago too EDIT2: yup usgs finally added it https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma95/executive https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma95...
- cossatot 3y ago
  It's possible. Seismicity has been associated with reservoirs[1] (the most well known is probably an earthquake in Egypt following the construction of the Aswan High Dam) and even rainfall[2]. There are both potential triggers from the increase in the stress on the fault, as you state, due to the weight of the water; and (probably more important) the increase in pore fluid pressure along the fault. It's a bit complicated, because the increase in stress on the fault from the weight of the reservoir can actually be primarily an increase in normal stress, i.e. an increase in the clamping force preventing the fault from slipping (i.e. the crust on either side of the fault sliding, i.e. the earthquake), so the weight of the reservoir can actually impede, rather than promote, seismicity. However if the geometry of the system is just right such that the increase in shear stress from the weight of the reservoir can increase on the fault, then the reservoir could really trigger the earthquake. Typically, though, the increase in pore fluid pressure is the most likely trigger as it's not geometry dependent--pumping a fracture with fluids will always promote failure. This is what happens with the seismicity associated with natural gas fracking and subsequent wastewater fluid injection. The thing that is hard to grapple with all of this is that changes in stress and fluid pressure on the fault are really, really small compared with the ambient stress and fluid pressure. These are tiny changes, but there is good reason to believe that many faults, especially those in seismically active areas, are very close to frictional failure (i.e., slipping and producing an earthquake) all the time. So therefore little things can perturb the system. However, it's worth keeping in mind that most of these small changes slightly increase or decrease the time to failure (as the primary loading that is causing the stress on the fault is probably continually happening at very low rates), rather than being the ultimate cause of the earthquake. [1]: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=dam+impoundment+seismicity&btnG= https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=dam... [2]: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2006GL027642 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...
aenopix 3y ago
4.7 an earthquake? Here in Chile thats more like a simple tremor, we dont even feel those.
- diego_sandoval 3y ago
  Chilean reaction to an earthquake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MW1HiuqpM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MW1HiuqpM
- flobosg 3y ago
  Keep in mind that Chilean building regulations account for much more seismic activity than the ones on the US East Coast.
chasd00 3y ago
a couple of east coast people on my team (NYC) felt it this morning. they were pretty excited about it haha
froyolobro 3y ago
Central New York here...I was in a basement and missed it :/
ano-ther 3y ago
First time I see a .gov entity use metric system only (not even “x km (y miles)”. > Since 1950, 40 other earthquakes of magnitude 3 and larger have occurred within 250 km of today’s earthquake
VikingCoder 3y ago
Was it a Bruce Springsteen concert? Also, do we know if Bruce Springsteen is okay?
_8j50 3y ago
What are the chances this was a cascade of the taiwan earthquake?
artistelynn 3y ago
Our 4.0 earthquake in Youngstown, OH where there are NEVER earthquakes was caused by high pressure pumping of radioactive fracking waste fluids from the Marcellus shale play in Pennsylvania into the Northstar 1 Injection Well
nunez 3y ago
I was at the Port Authority terminal and felt nothing. My wife was in Long Island city and felt it strongly enough to text me. Crazy shit.
jsjohnst 3y ago
I’m about 10mi from the epicenter and noticed most of the aftershocks today. What’s interesting is there was a 2.2 a couple weeks ago at the same area and I thought I noticed it, but didn’t look it up at the time thinking it was just a truck nearby.
florid 3y ago
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Is it possible that a larger aftershock or swarm is coming? How do these things work usually? Last time something like this happened was 25 years ago… https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/aftershocks-swarm-what-difference-and-what-do-they-mean https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/aftershocks-swar...

ccurrens 3y ago
USGS suggests that this was a main earthquake of a series. I guess there was one mid march https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=us7000ma74&extent=40.64795,-74.79466&extent=40.70205,-74.7054&autoUpdate=false&range=search&sort=largest&baseLayer=terrain&settings=true&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%22:%7B%22latitude%22:%2240.683%22,%22longitude%22:%22-74.7532%22,%22maxradiuskm%22:%2210%22,%22endtime%22:%222025-04-05T15:20:00.000Z%22,%22limit%22:%2220000%22,%22orderby%22:%22magnitude%22,%22starttime%22:%222024-03-06T14:23:20.334Z%22%7D%7D https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureI... This event is identified as the potential mainshock of an earthquake sequence. From this URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/executive https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74...
steanne 3y ago
there WAS one follow-up so far this morning, currently being reported as a 2.0. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma7c/ https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma7c...

meepmorp 3y ago

It's now 7 km NNE of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, according to the linked page

theandrewbailey 3y ago
Thanks, I edited while I still could.
jameshart 3y ago
This makes it sound like the earthquake is ongoing and moving. For all our sakes, I hope that’s not the case.

altdataseller 3y ago

Didn’t even feel at all? Was in Queens, NY, strangely a couple of people around me felt it though

Keegs 3y ago
My building rattled for a good 15 seconds.
- evanelias 3y ago
  Same here in northern NJ just outside Manhattan. It was extremely noticeable, my cat also freaked out briefly.
guluarte 3y ago
4.7 is literally nothing
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- moate 3y ago
  It’s actually “moderate shaking and light damage expected”[1] but go off sis. (1)https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/executive https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74...
- ziddoap 3y ago
  It is very obviously not "literally nothing", given the amount of people chiming in that they felt it.
- chrinic74929 3y ago
  > 4.7 is literally nothing 4.7 quake at 1 km depth will shake more at the surface than a 6.0 at 30 km depth
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__float 3y ago
What is that helping, exactly? Most people have no idea what distinction that's drawing. The Wikipedia article says an ETS event is imperceptible to humans. This was not imperceptible.
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ishtanbul 3y ago
It says in the article that those are imperceptible to humans
ziddoap 3y ago
Not being familiar with the field, why would it be tremendously helpful to refer to it as a tremor instead of earthquake? Tremendously helpful to the people who felt it? Or to geologists?
- smlacy 3y ago
  Tremor-endlessly helpful
theandrewbailey 3y ago
> Episodic tremor and slip (ETS) is a seismological phenomenon observed in some subduction zones that is characterized by non-earthquake seismic rumbling, or tremor, and slow slip along the plate interface. New Jersey is nowhere near a subduction zone, or any plate boundary.
ChicagoDave 3y ago
Only if giant worms attack.

sylens 3y ago

Sorry guys, that was me doing a git rebase

moomoo11 3y ago
Spit out my tea thanks lmao
kibwen 3y ago
$ git config --global alias.subduct rebase
hk1337 3y ago
Found the google engineer!
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jmkni 3y ago
skill issue

ribs 3y ago

I felt in here on Long Island, where I grew up, and am visiting from California, where I’ve lived for decades Right now in Huntington

moomoo11 3y ago

How common is East coast earthquak

ssijak 3y ago
very rare
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klysm 3y ago
I've lived on the east coast for 25 years and experienced 2 that were noticeable.
- asveikau 3y ago
  I lived there for the first 23 years of life and experienced zero. I felt left out when I missed the 2011 one.
xkcd-sucks 3y ago
Pretty common, but small and rarely noticed [0]. Probably lots of construction and geotechnical engineering wouldn't have survived anything significant at least in the Northeast [0] https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=38.03944,-79.33228&extent=45.75219,-63.86353&range=search&showUSFaults=true&baseLayer=terrain&timeZone=utc&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%22:%7B%22starttime%22:%221900-01-01%2000:00:00%22,%22maxlatitude%22:42.816,%22minlatitude%22:41.2,%22maxlongitude%22:-69.593,%22minlongitude%22:-73.592,%22minmagnitude%22:0,%22orderby%22:%22time%22%7D%7D
pixl97 3y ago
It is very uncommon that they are very strong, but they can be rather severe when a big one occurs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886_Charleston_earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886_Charleston_earthquake

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pjsg 3y ago

I felt it in Mass -- I was working on the second floor. My wife was on the ground floor and didn't feel it. From our internal slack channel, this seems fairly common -- people on the ground floor don't feel it here in MA, but higher floors, they do feel it.

ishtanbul 3y ago
Im on ground floor and definitely felt it. In brooklyn. All the buildings around me were visibly shaking. Felt like a freight train going by 10 feet away, but eerily quiet.
astockwell 3y ago
Felt it in Hartford, CT!
klysm 3y ago
Also in MA on the second floor. Two of my roommates were standing and didn't notice it, but I definitely felt it sitting down
ilamont 3y ago
Felt it too outside of Boston. Thought the heat pump upstairs was having a serious malfunction.
neilv 3y ago
I felt it on an upper floor of a big old brick building in Cambridge. First thought was it was an earthquake, but then no signs other than that I could feel it in legs.
nicwolff 3y ago
I'm in a house up in Chelmsford, north of Boston – one person on the second floor felt it.
Zigurd 3y ago
This was my second minor quake that could be felt in Mass. I was driving both times. First time I thought my steering felt suddenly rubbery. I was in a rotary. Didn't notice this one.

blueflow 3y ago

Which fault caused it?

kevin_thibedeau 3y ago
Northeastern US quakes are typically the result of post-glacial uplift. The land is still rising and stress builds up over time.
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moate 3y ago
Likely Ramapo, but what do I know.
- bobo_legos 3y ago
  I didn't stay at a holiday in last night, but I can read maps and it does seem like this one landed on the Ramapo fault line.
steanne 3y ago
there's a good general description of seismicity in the region here: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/region-info https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74...

_sword 3y ago

That was eerie! I felt my apartment building start to rock and sway as the walls were creaking. Not something I’m used to as a NY native, and not something I loved to experience 20+ floors above the ground.

coldcode 3y ago
I experienced a 3.8 (I think) in Dallas some years ago, 30 stories up. It was likely caused by oil drilling action in the area, as Texas is not an earthquake zone if I remember correctly. It was not fun, no dampers in that building.
s-kymon 3y ago
I thought it was a train or truck going by
- _sword 3y ago
  I thought wind at first because it's been stormy lately
rdedev 3y ago
My first earthquake experience. I thought maybe I was imagining things but when the walls started to shake I got out
foxyv 3y ago
I remember being in a 4th floor office and feeling the building sway. I can't imagine how terrifying 20+ floors up would be.
- 13of40 3y ago
  I was in the one in Seattle around 2000 on the 5th floor of a building, and I distinctly remember walking down the hall with the building swaying like a boat in a storm, wondering when the whole thing was just going to snap and crumble into a pile of rubble. Luckily it turns out they make modern buildings not do that. I've been back to that building and they still have cracks in the stairwell from it, though.

philip1209 3y ago

I experienced a 4.8 earthquake about a month ago in Tokyo, and noticed the shaking significantly. In Manhattan this morning, I didn't notice the 4.7 earthquake at all.

rohan_ 3y ago

My apartment in williamsburg was violently shaking for like 2 minutes

christkv 3y ago
I think i remember someone telling me when i was living in nyc that your area foundations are a lot of clay. That would probably amplify the sensation of a quake.

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wumeow 3y ago

Japan, Taiwan, New York, this is apparently the year of the earthquake.

seydor 3y ago
4.7 is not really a strong earthquake, it s routine in earthquake-prone zones
- chrinic74929 3y ago
  > 4.7 is not really a strong earthquake, it s routine in earthquake-prone zones NYC quake was at shallow depth. 4.7 quake at 1 km depth will shake more at the surface than a 6.0 at 30 km depth
  - neogodless 3y ago
    In this case, it's a 4.8 mwr at 4.7 km depth.
  - renewiltord 3y ago
    USGS shows it as 4.8 at 4.7 km https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=us7000ma74&extent=40.01079,-76.23688&extent=41.39123,-73.27881 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureI... The Belden quake is 4.4 at 7.8 km, and 4.2 at 5 km. It's a log scale so the Whitehouse quake is much larger, but the significance of the quake seems to be more than just these numbers because Belden quake is irrelevant (didn't make the news really). Sarupathar was a 5.8 (huge comparatively) at 10 km. Hualien was 5.1 at 15.9 km and talked about more than Sarupathar. So the defining aspect appears to be how many people are within range of the epicenter rather than just raw depth and magnitude. Which makes sense, I suppose. We care about how population centers encounter the movement!
    - ylyn 3y ago
      > Hualien was 5.1 at 15.9 km That's just an aftershock. The main quake was three days ago. M 7.4 according to USGS: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000m9g4/executive https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000m9g4... So for an earthquake that's almost 1000x as strong, you'd think it'd be talked about more.

1970-01-01 3y ago

Show us your failed 3D prints!

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dotnet00 3y ago
Well tuned 3d printers are somewhat surprisingly mostly unaffected by earthquakes. People have even done stuff like hanging a printer and printing without any significant issue. It'd just show as a slight imperfection on that specific line.
- jjk166 3y ago
  Makes sense, as long as the force creating the vibration is acting on both the extruder and the bed so they don't move relative to one another it shouldn't really matter.

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caretak3r 3y ago

Was on a call with my boss reluctantly explaining how kubernetes works. I felt the rumble, thinking it was just my discomfort with the state of affairs in my company. Might as well have been a fart in the wind.

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sethammons 3y ago

A number of years ago, in SoCal (where earthquakes are nothing too special), we had a similar sized quake (maybe a tad bigger). One guy from Denver was out and his eyes went big and wasn't sure what to do -- everyone else just kept talking and moved away from the big glass windows haha.

gwbas1c 3y ago
For my first quake in CA, I was peeing. (I'm a man and I pee standing up.) The shower doors next to me started to rattle, so I thought the people above me were jumping around. I didn't realize it was a quake! (The stream kept going where it was supposed to go.) I came out of the bathroom and my roommate was terrified. It was even funnier when my mom called me in a panic and I told her what happened.

spopejoy 3y ago

I'm in Brooklyn and felt it while on a call with an NJ resident who was the first to say "are we having an earthquake??" Do earthquakes have a propagation speed? Might she have felt it before me?

pxx 3y ago
Yes, the speed of sound (through the earth, so faster than the speed of sound in air); yes. In California, typically usgs has earthquakes posted before I can feel them. They didn't have this one a few minutes after I felt it, so I feel like automatic earthquake detection is off in this area of the US.
- andrewla 3y ago
  Same experience -- felt a shaking; thought maybe a heavy truck had passed by for a second, then saw that all the monitors were swaying. Checked USGS and saw nothing, so figured it was nothing, because on the west coast they have the reports up lickety split. Half hour later everyone's phone started buzzing with the automated alert.
- gcr 3y ago
  I received the earthquake alert about 45 minutes after it occurred.
  - cj 3y ago
    The Apple alert came in at 12:05pm warning of aftershocks but not the primary event.
- Lance_ET_Compte 3y ago
  In the Bay Area, everyone gets an SMS message that says an earthquake is coming. I've felt/heard the shaking 10-20 seconds later. Some industrial equipment shuts down to avoid damage.
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usernamed7 3y ago

I was laying in bed and thought I'd sleep a little bit more. the earthquake wasn't violent, but certainly noticeable. It was similar to someone walking on my roof, without the banging.

melling 3y ago
I thought a tree fell on the house. It was loud. We occasionally get branches that make a bang on the roof. I’m about 15 miles from the epicenter.

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aragonite 3y ago

I distinctly remember the first time I created a Twitter account (& probably became aware of Twitter being a thing) was the day when a similar earthquake was felt in NYC back in 2011...

ModernMech 3y ago
Yes! It was in the fall. The epicenter of that one was near Virginia though I think. Edit: Here it is. It was the end of August which I consider the Fall cause that's when the Fall semester starts for me ^^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virginia_earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virginia_earthquake
- gabeio 3y ago
  I remember this earth quake! I missed it lol. I happened to be driving and we got out of the car to see a tv telling us how we got hit with an earth quake and my friend and I looking at one another like "what did we miss". This time I happened to be on the second floor of a small office building. I was about to run out of the building if it started to get worse I wasn't sure it wasn't the building having an issue.
SamPatt 3y ago
I worked in northern Virginia at the time, fairly close to the epicenter. Our office building shook violently. A poor woman I worked with was quite panicked, dove under her desk... and admonished me afterward for staying calm?

ajdude 3y ago

I felt it in Delaware!

ModernMech 3y ago

This is the second quake I've felt in Pennsylvania. The first was in 2011. I was born here and lived here for my whole life except for 4 years when I lived in CA, where I didn't feel any earthquakes.

jvolkman 3y ago
Yeah, since I moved to Seattle in 2011 there have been two largeish quakes in the northeast. I have yet to feel one in Seattle. Of course now I've jinxed myself.

davidjhall 3y ago

In Connecticut - rattled the windows and shook books off the bookcase.

sunshine_reggae 3y ago

The marketing team at Rumble.com is really innovating these days, getting people to switch over from Youtube.

tomrod 3y ago
I hadn't heard of rumble yet. But after reviewing it, of course this exists...
- tombert 3y ago
  I actually do use Rumble (there are some more controversial-but-also-left-leaning creators that got banned from YouTube that I like), but man the ads on there are insane. COVID conspiracy theories, vaccine "alternatives", political ads for obscure Republican candidates, stuff like that. Fortunately, at least for now there's not a lot of ads (I suspect that they can't find a lot of mainstream advertisers), so generally I only got to watch one of those ads before the video starts.
  - sunshine_reggae 3y ago
    I don't know - for example, here is a video of a couple of scientists who explain in detail how they have analyzed the vaccine contents and how authorities then have reacted to their complaints: https://rumble.com/v4n6hsn-analysis-on-covid-19-vaccines-performed-by-prof.-lorena-diblasi-and-dr.-mar.html https://rumble.com/v4n6hsn-analysis-on-covid-19-vaccines-per... Would you still call such content a conspiracy theory?
    - nielsbot 3y ago
      Absolutely. The subtitles open with "so-called vaccine against COVID-19" and "with all this fraud that is which is being carried about by the WHO". These vaccines have been seriously studied for year and now billions of people have taken them. Safe enough, ok?
    - tombert 3y ago
      I made it clear that these were the ads, not the direct videos. That said, the COVID vaccines are safe and saying otherwise is kind of intellectually dishonest. Just because you can find one video where they "analyzed the vaccine contents" doesn't discount all the research and sampling data that has been taken. If you haven't gotten the COVID vaccine, you probably should.

luxuryballs 3y ago

way to go Frank https://ssgeos.org/ https://ssgeos.org/

radres 3y ago
well, potential regions do not include east coast US at all.
- luxuryballs 3y ago
  yeah I bet it’s impossible to forecast location very easily because of how complex and unpredictable the actual plates and crust of the earth might be, but it’s cool to track when the forces would be compounding due to alignments of these massive bodies

jedberg 3y ago

For those of you who didn't grow up in earthquake country, some tips: DO NOT get into a doorway, that's a myth. It's not a terrible place to be if it's a doorless frame, but if there is a door, it's more likely you get injured from the door smacking you than the earthquake. DO get under a strong table. That's the safest place to be in a quake if it happens when you are indoors. If you're outside get as far away from trees and power lines as possible (and glass), but if the ground is shaking too hard to maintain balance, stay in place. Again, you're more likely to get injured falling down than from whatever may be nearby. If you're inside and not near a table, at the very least cover your head if possible and move away from bookcases and other tall or top heavy objects. Also, if you did feel it, please help the USGS study earthquakes by filling out a Did You Feel it survey: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/dyfi/intensity https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74...

duxup 3y ago
I suppose depending on the structure and the individual's inclination strong table might be a good call. But in my single family home situation it really doesn't take more than a few seconds and I can be out the door provided I'm not knocked off my feet entirely type situation.
- nostrademons 3y ago
  Being out the door is usually riskier than being inside a wood-frame SFH. You're exposed to falling trees, branches, power lines, and roof debris, as well as unsecured cars or other loose items. Wood-framed 1-2 story SFHs almost never collapse in an earthquake; the wood can bend to absorb the shock, and there's a lot of redundancy in the studs, and not a whole lot of weight on floors above you.
  - duxup 3y ago
    I guess I'm fortunate / unfortunate that my outdoors ... doesn't have a lot of that. It might be interesting to somehow determine earthquake injuries / ability to get in or outdoors and measure the real risk from actual events.

MisterTea 3y ago

Holy shit what a ride! Sitting at home in my office in Ozone Park NYC and I hear what I think is a low flying plane coming in to JFK. Happens when weather is bad and they come in lower they can rattle my windows. But the intensity grew suddenly and my entire house was shaking and everything was rattling. At first I froze for a few seconds as I could not make sense of what I was experiencing - but it was clear this was not normal so I ran like hell downstairs and outside. While running I was trying to make sense of the shaking: did a truck or plane crash? no not this long - maybe the elevated A train up the block is collapsing? An explosion? some kind of cataclysm? WTF is happening! But after I reached the side door and the house was still shaking I realized this is an earthquake. Earthquake was not the first thing on my mind for sure as I have lived in NYC all my life and never felt anything like this. Fucking nuts

noman-land 3y ago
Thanks for the exciting first person account.
swozey 3y ago
I've never been in an earthquake it's got to be such a strange thing to experience the first time. Hearing tornado sirens for the first time was wild, especially as a Silent Hill fan. On the other hand my friend moved to Brooklyn from Haiti after their terrible quake so he's in a mood right now.
- pixl97 3y ago
  A number of decades ago I took a trip out to California for the first time and we had reached our friends house pretty late. After driving for 12+ hours straight I passed out on the floor. In the middle of the night I was awoken by what I thought was a large truck out front, like a garbage truck or something. But it kept getting closer and more intense and everything started shuffling around in the house with a shik-shik-shik-shik noise and the blinds started rapping off each side of the window sill. When you experience something new like this where your brain kind of spins around in circles not knowing what to do, then it came back with the answer of Earthquake! which I involuntarily yelled out loud. My next thought was "Is this going to get worse, and what do I do if it does". I was in a new place that I had barely even looked at before falling asleep. Thankfully it subsided after 20 seconds or so without any major incident. Was hard to fall back to sleep that night.

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cute_boi 3y ago

I got alert after 10 mins of earthquake .....:(

mmmmmbop 3y ago
Yeah I found that pretty strange. I felt the earthquake, and searched Google for "earthquake nyc" results in the last hour - found nothing. 10 or 20 minutes later my phone starts buzzing informing me that there had been an earthquake. Seems rather pointless.
- dzdt 3y ago
  Phone alert came here 1hr40min after the quake. [shrug] yes pretty useless
- devb 3y ago
  I think the alert is to try to get people to stop calling the police to ask/inform them about what they felt.

HarHarVeryFunny 3y ago

Yep - felt it here in northern NJ, as did friends in NY and CT. Working from home - all windows rattling/etc - first thought something was happening inside house, then looked outside expecting something massive driving by perhaps! Kids at high school did classroom emergency shelter-in-place.

poidos 3y ago

TIL that part of the world is seismically active. No idea why I thought it wasn't. Funny gap in knowledge there! Hope folks are ok.

scrumper 3y ago

Felt that very strongly in southern Westchester county NY. Not like the 2011 earthquake I felt in NYC, which was kind of slow and made the building I was in sway violently; this was more like the vibrations from a huge truck passing nearby, but more intense. Loud and very unpleasant, about 15 seconds duration. Did not like that at all, am now inspecting all our services like gas and water for disruption, checking for cracks and so on.

mtalantikite 3y ago
There actually was a large truck coming down my block in Brooklyn at the same time it started and it took me a second to realize that no, it actually was an earthquake. And I definitely agree, the 2011 one was more of a sway, this felt like a rumble.
- hateful 3y ago
  I'm on Long Island and there was a train passing at the same time.
- TuringNYC 3y ago
  Funny you say that! I live in NJ now and felt the quake today. I just brushed it away as a truck passing by (I grew up in Brooklyn.) In NYC, it is so common for large trucks, major construction, pile drivers, subways running under the building, bad roads causing trucks to shake, etc...that I am just used to this. I have not yet gotten accustomed to the stillness of suburbs despite being here for years now. (Side note: In NYC you can also get stillness and quiet, usually by going upwards into skyscrapers)
georgeecollins 3y ago
As a native Californian this provokes a bit of a chuckle. Try a six plus sometime! But seriously, I hope everything is fine.
- __loam 3y ago
  Buildings a quite a bit older on the east coast and building codes are obviously more lax so we should probably have some empathy here haha.

ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago

I felt that (I live on Long Island). I thought it was construction vehicles. We've had a lot of heavy construction around here. What made it clear it was different, was my cat didn't like it, and he ignores the construction.

floxy 3y ago
Speaking of cats and earthquakes, I just watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ-p9qOhBv4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ-p9qOhBv4 ...again. This is a Cat Cafe in Japan, and you can clearly see the cats get alerted to something ~10 seconds before the shaking starts. Do we have an idea of what they are reacting to?
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
  Huh. You do hear about animals reacting before earthquakes. My cat did alert before the quake, but didn't really scoot, until the shaking started. He was sitting on my lap, at the time. I'm glad he didn't extend his claws. I suspect some kind of subsonics that come before the shaking really gets going. It can take a bit of time to get a rhythm going, so the earthquake may actually be under way for a bit, before we really feel it.
- devb 3y ago
  They are feeling the p-wave, which arrives just before the s-wave that you feel as shaking: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-can-animals-predict-earthquakes-180960079/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-s...

Scubabear68 3y ago

Live 25 miles South West of epicenter. It went on for I guess 30 seconds or so. Everyone in the house completely confused as we had never been in a quake before. Very low level vibrations, very very loud sound. Very foreign to New Jersey folks!

JohnTHaller 3y ago

In NYC. This was much stronger than in terms of local shaking than the others of the last 25 years. Living on the 4th floor of a 90+ year old building. My fridge was trying to walk across the floor.

eggy 3y ago
Were you always on the 4th floor for the others? You would feel it more the higher up you are as the building resonates.
- JohnTHaller 3y ago
  The last larger one in, iirc, 2011 I was. Same apt. Definitely stronger.

ylee 3y ago

My father is a very light sleeper. During my childhood in NYC, more than once an earthquake woke him up.

markbnj 3y ago

We're almost exactly 10 miles north of the epicenter near Oldwick, NJ. We experienced several sharp jolts that sent some items tumbling off shelves and shook my ember full of coffee off its charging coaster (or I spilled it in reacting to the jolt, idk really), followed by a gentle shaking that lasted 30 seconds or more. This is the first one I can recall feeling since we moved here in 1995.

geophile 3y ago

Lots of “was that an earthquake”? discussion in r/somerville (MA)

jmspring 3y ago

Earthquakes are apparently rare on the East coast. We had a 4.8/4.9 here near the census designated place of Belden in Plumas County CA yesterday evening. Others farther away felt it. I didn’t. Cats didn’t react either. Unless it’s a sharp quake, or in the mid 5s, I mostly don’t notice them.

throwaway743 3y ago

I legit slept through this?? Had to take an ambien last night because of my insomnia. Who knew insomnia could potentially be fatal?

joecool1029 3y ago

I'm near epicenter, felt the foreshock a few weeks ago too: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000mix0/executive https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000mix0...

whycome 3y ago
What if this is just another foreshock?
- joecool1029 3y ago
  Considering the aftershocks are way less intense, probably not. I've felt 2 now, last one was just a few minutes ago, parents confirmed (they are about same distance from epicenter but I'm northwest, they are southeast of it) EDIT: waiting for usgs to update with latest but here's all the ones associated with event https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=us7000ma74&extent=40.40827,-74.92607&extent=40.95709,-74.58&autoUpdate=false&range=search&sort=largest&baseLayer=terrain&map=false&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%22:%7B%22latitude%22:%2240.683%22,%22longitude%22:%22-74.7532%22,%22maxradiuskm%22:%2210%22,%22endtime%22:%222025-04-05T15:20:00.000Z%22,%22limit%22:%2220000%22,%22orderby%22:%22magnitude%22,%22starttime%22:%222024-03-06T14:23:20.334Z%22%7D%7D https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureI...

tombert 3y ago

Felt this all the way in Brooklyn. My wife and I thought it was just some heavy sustained road construction nearby; it was a bit shakier than usual for that, but the last thing we thought it was was an actual earthquake. Fortunately, at least in our area, there doesn't appear to be any kind of damage.

neogodless 3y ago

Curious about the 4.7 vs 4.8. Official source here says 4.8 but title says 4.7. APNews did something similar showing 4.8 in the headline but 4.7 in the text. Coincidentally the depth is 4.7 km. Wonder if there's just a transpose error and a lot of copy/paste.

jedberg 3y ago
Earthquake magnitude usually changes a bunch in the first hour or two as new data comes in. For example some of the data comes from stations on the other side of the planet, and it takes a while for the wave to propagate that far.
- neogodless 3y ago
  That's one possible explanation, though I've been on usgs.gov a lot from the first I heard of this, and I've only ever seen 4.8 on it. Odd, also that the OP sharing this shared a link to 4.8 but put 4.7 in the title. But the text on that page might trick your eye, between "M 4.8 - 7 km N" and "Magnitude 4.8 mwr Depth 4.7 km".
  - asveikau 3y ago
    Those of us in California are used to this. We feel the shake and look it up, and see one number. News articles get written with one of those numbers. After a while it changes, possibly a few times, to some number close to the initial report.
ccurrens 3y ago
I've been watching USGS since I felt it. It was originally 4.8, then it was 4.7 for a little bit, and they brought it back up to 4.8.
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trashface 3y ago

Felt it in western philly suburbs near valley forge. My roof was shaking but it was weird, thought it was a helicopter overhead. Didn't even realize it was a quake. Over in seconds.

MarCylinder 3y ago

That was fun. My folks place is essentially a 5 minute drive from the epicenter. I'm about an hours drive. Our experience was pretty similar. Looks like reported depth was 5km, making this a very shallow earthquake

recck 3y ago

Felt it in Southwest CT for a solid 15-20 seconds. Definitely thought it was a very large truck going by, but also felt like our solar panels were falling off the roof.

busyant 3y ago
Didn't feel it at all in central CT. My brother in northern NJ said he was briefly evacuated from his building.

bitwize 3y ago

I once experienced an earthquake in Connecticut. The weird thing was, just before it happened I heard/felt a very peculiar thrumming in my ear, like the air was exerting vibrating pressure. They say that animals can detect earthquakes before they happen. I think I might have an idea as to how.

benraz123 3y ago

Felt a slight shake. House was unaffected however.

cushychicken 3y ago

Felt it and I’m in MA. Boston area.

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jcims 3y ago

Just saw this a few days ago: https://stationview.raspberryshake.org/ https://stationview.raspberryshake.org/ Not a ton of coverage in the area but it was picked up.

megous 3y ago

40 such earthquakes happen daily in the world. So?

bee_rider 3y ago
We don’t get this kind of stuff in the Northeast and it is a relatively population-dense area of the US. Also it is sort of the news center of the country.
theandrewbailey 3y ago
Earthquakes are not evenly distributed, and quite rare in New England.

thakobyan 3y ago

I was in jersey city and our building literally shaked. It was very scary to say the least.

Simon_ORourke 3y ago

I felt that one too in upstate NY, more of a rumbling that anything more violent. Doesn't even come close to the one I experienced in Peru one time, where everything felt like a ship on rough seas... never want to live through that kind of quake again!

hhshhhhjjjd 3y ago
I prefer living through an earthquake than not!

exegete 3y ago

M 2.0 aftershock? https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma7c/executive https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma7c...

always-open 3y ago
Several aftershocks apparently: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=40.4809,-74.90547&extent=40.92493,-74.61021&autoUpdate=false&range=search&sort=largest&baseLayer=terrain&map=false&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%22:%7B%22latitude%22:%2240.7033%22,%22longitude%22:%22-74.7581%22,%22maxradiuskm%22:%2210%22,%22endtime%22:%222025-04-05T18:30:00.000Z%22,%22limit%22:%2220000%22,%22orderby%22:%22magnitude%22,%22starttime%22:%222024-03-06T14:23:20.490Z%22%7D%7D https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=40.4809,...

flakes 3y ago

Both me and my girlfriend were working from home today. Randomly our dog started crying and a few seconds later we felt the quake. Was pretty wild. Lots of rattling of furniture and plates in the cabinets. I guess my dog must have noticed the more subtle rumbles beforehand.

habibur 3y ago

5 km depth. That's of concern. Will shake a small region more violently than what a normal mag 4+ quake would have.

bertil 3y ago
Is that deeper or shallower than usual?
- habibur 3y ago
  Shallower than usual. Very shallow quakes happen at 10 km to 20 km depth. This one is at 5 km.

bee_rider 3y ago

If any west-coasters are confused as to how this is news: the Northeast is sort of geologically unusual for the US in that we have almost no surprising, sudden weather thingies. No tornados, mild thunderstorm, occasional hurricanes (but they are usually weakened a bit compared to, like, Florida by the time they get up here and they’ve spent a long time going up the coast so they tend to be well tracked by forecasters), some flooding but not much, and no earthquakes. Our bad weather events are usually blizzards, which you can see coming and which take a while to accumulate. We’re right in the middle of the North American plate and the area is covered in gentle old hills and mountains. So, we’re all just not used to the planet surprising us!

tzakrajs 3y ago
What is a Nor'easter?
- renegade-otter 3y ago
  A lot of cold water and maybe snow.
- vlan0 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1992_nor%27easter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1992_nor%27easter
- hijinks 3y ago
  its a lot of warm moisture that comes up the coast from the southeast and slams into cold air from canada and can drop a lot of snow/wind. It can cause bad storms in the ocean and high seas.
- chimeracoder 3y ago
  > What is a Nor'easter? Literally: a cold hurricane. Some people misuse the term to mean "a blizzard affecting New England and/or the Northeast", but it actually specifically refers to a storm that's been pushed inland by sea winds coming from the northeast, off the Atlantic Ocean. That specific pattern results in a particularly cold and brutal storm. Nor'easters are technically cyclones, just like hurricanes, and the two are very similar in many regards. The difference is that a Nor'easter forms further north, in cold water, and it is actually strengthened by cold air, whereas hurricanes form further south and are diminished in strength as they cool off. https://scijinks.gov/noreaster/ https://scijinks.gov/noreaster/

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bickeringyokel 3y ago

Reading this on the toilet now wondering what my priorities would be if there was a quake in the next couple minutes.

fictorial 3y ago
Finishing up!
bertil 3y ago
That one is easy: You won’t shock anyone if you show up at the hospital with dirty underwear. You don’t want a trauma surgeon to say that they have to page the neuro-chir. Get under a doorframe, and put your pants up when your head is safe.
- bickeringyokel 3y ago
  I thought the door frame thing was actually not a good idea? The mantra nowadays is drop, cover and hold on. Which might actually put you in a more precarious situation during said quake.
Ylpertnodi 3y ago
I can honestly say it happened to me. It's a very strange experience- lasted about 40 seconds. I'm about 300km from where the epicenter was. The main thing i worried about was the building collapsing, and my state of dress and 'activity' would become the stuff of memes and "did you hear about....?" stories.

nickjj 3y ago

I felt it on Long Island over 100 miles away. I had headphones on and thought a really heavy truck was shaking the ground. It was enough to make my desk and monitors shake but nothing too crazy.

fullstop 3y ago
I live about 20 miles from the epicenter and my neighbors said that their mirrors were shaking and monitors were wobbling. I felt nothing, at all, and my cats didn't move an inch. I'm pretty observant with that sort of thing, so I'm a bit surprised. Is it even possible for someone a few houses away to experience drastically different seismic activity? Edit: I was on the ground floor, which is likely why I did not feel it.
- nickjj 3y ago
  If my eyes were closed I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between it and a washing machine running on a floor below you. I really only noticed it because my monitors were wobbling a decent amount. > Is it even possible for someone a few houses away to experience drastically different seismic activity? I'm not sure but there's probably variables around how sturdy things are (the foundation, floor, walls, desk, monitors, etc.). If I tap the side of my desk with the force of a golf clap the monitor wobble factor it about equal to the earthquake. I know in the US it's funny to measure things with weird units but that's the best I can do to associate the amount of force.
  - fullstop 3y ago
    I was at a desk which also has a bunch of my wife's art supplies on it. That stuff definitely would have moved.

renegade-otter 3y ago

I ran out because I thought the boiler was going to go kaboom.

bloopernova 3y ago

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/05/earthquake-vasectomy-new-york-new-jersey https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/05/earthquake-v... Thankfully the surgeon wasn't "scalpel deep" during the quake!

nobody9999 3y ago

I'm in Manhattan (UWS) and live on the fourth floor of a five story walk-up. I felt the quake, but didn't realize that's what it was (I was a little confused as to why my building was vibrating -- for 40 seconds or so, as big trucks can do that but not for that long) until I received an emergency alert on my phone ~45 minutes later. Nothing broken or dislodged, just wondering why my building was vibrating fairly gently.

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joecool1029 3y ago

So since I live near epicenter, there's one thing that changed geographically very recently. Nearby round valley reservoir was being worked on for years, last fall they got the authorization to pump it back to full and it was told it might take years. Rainy asf winter though so it's pumped back almost full from already 66% to 92% now. I'm wondering if billions of gallons of water getting added nearby affected pressure on the fault. Here's today's operations data (we just had 3.5in of rain past couple days too): https://www.njwsa.org/uploads/1/0/8/0/108064771/data.pdf https://www.njwsa.org/uploads/1/0/8/0/108064771/data.pdf EDIT: just had another aftershock right after posting this. Felt the 2.0 a couple hours ago too EDIT2: yup usgs finally added it https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma95/executive https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma95...

cossatot 3y ago
It's possible. Seismicity has been associated with reservoirs[1] (the most well known is probably an earthquake in Egypt following the construction of the Aswan High Dam) and even rainfall[2]. There are both potential triggers from the increase in the stress on the fault, as you state, due to the weight of the water; and (probably more important) the increase in pore fluid pressure along the fault. It's a bit complicated, because the increase in stress on the fault from the weight of the reservoir can actually be primarily an increase in normal stress, i.e. an increase in the clamping force preventing the fault from slipping (i.e. the crust on either side of the fault sliding, i.e. the earthquake), so the weight of the reservoir can actually impede, rather than promote, seismicity. However if the geometry of the system is just right such that the increase in shear stress from the weight of the reservoir can increase on the fault, then the reservoir could really trigger the earthquake. Typically, though, the increase in pore fluid pressure is the most likely trigger as it's not geometry dependent--pumping a fracture with fluids will always promote failure. This is what happens with the seismicity associated with natural gas fracking and subsequent wastewater fluid injection. The thing that is hard to grapple with all of this is that changes in stress and fluid pressure on the fault are really, really small compared with the ambient stress and fluid pressure. These are tiny changes, but there is good reason to believe that many faults, especially those in seismically active areas, are very close to frictional failure (i.e., slipping and producing an earthquake) all the time. So therefore little things can perturb the system. However, it's worth keeping in mind that most of these small changes slightly increase or decrease the time to failure (as the primary loading that is causing the stress on the fault is probably continually happening at very low rates), rather than being the ultimate cause of the earthquake. [1]: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=dam+impoundment+seismicity&btnG= https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=dam... [2]: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2006GL027642 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...

aenopix 3y ago

4.7 an earthquake? Here in Chile thats more like a simple tremor, we dont even feel those.

diego_sandoval 3y ago
Chilean reaction to an earthquake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MW1HiuqpM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MW1HiuqpM
flobosg 3y ago
Keep in mind that Chilean building regulations account for much more seismic activity than the ones on the US East Coast.

chasd00 3y ago

a couple of east coast people on my team (NYC) felt it this morning. they were pretty excited about it haha

froyolobro 3y ago

Central New York here...I was in a basement and missed it :/

ano-ther 3y ago

First time I see a .gov entity use metric system only (not even “x km (y miles)”. > Since 1950, 40 other earthquakes of magnitude 3 and larger have occurred within 250 km of today’s earthquake

VikingCoder 3y ago

Was it a Bruce Springsteen concert? Also, do we know if Bruce Springsteen is okay?

_8j50 3y ago

What are the chances this was a cascade of the taiwan earthquake?

artistelynn 3y ago

Our 4.0 earthquake in Youngstown, OH where there are NEVER earthquakes was caused by high pressure pumping of radioactive fracking waste fluids from the Marcellus shale play in Pennsylvania into the Northstar 1 Injection Well

nunez 3y ago

I was at the Port Authority terminal and felt nothing. My wife was in Long Island city and felt it strongly enough to text me. Crazy shit.

jsjohnst 3y ago

I’m about 10mi from the epicenter and noticed most of the aftershocks today. What’s interesting is there was a 2.2 a couple weeks ago at the same area and I thought I noticed it, but didn’t look it up at the time thinking it was just a truck nearby.

florid 3y ago

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