M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake • Hacker News Board

Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 3:01 PM UTC

caretak3r wrote: post #41

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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Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake

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Post by sethammons » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 3:02 PM UTC

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.

Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake

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Post by spopejoy » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 3:02 PM UTC

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?

Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 3:02 PM UTC

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Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake

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Post by seydor » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 3:02 PM UTC

wumeow wrote: post #35

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

4.7 is not really a strong earthquake, it s routine in earthquake-prone zones

Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake

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Post by usernamed7 » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 3:02 PM UTC

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.

Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake

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Post by ziddoap » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 3:02 PM UTC

guluarte wrote: post #25

altdataseller wrote: post #4

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

4.7 is literally nothing

It is very obviously not "literally nothing", given the amount of people chiming in that they felt it.

Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake

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Post by pxx » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 3:02 PM UTC

spopejoy wrote: post #53

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?

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.

Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake

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Post by IG_Semmelweiss » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 3:02 PM UTC

JohnMakin wrote: post #46

IG_Semmelweiss wrote: post #5

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This is not the first time you've made a post like this - just because it's a weird pet peeve of yours does not mean you are right.

its informational.

TREMOR - NO life or financial loss

EARTHQUAKE - life or financial loss

Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 3:03 PM UTC

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