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M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake

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

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Post by nostrademons »

jedberg wrote: post #82

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…

The standard advice now taught in California schools is "Duck, cover, hold." Basically everything that parent poster said, but in a pithy 3-word aphorism you're more likely to remember.

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

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Post by mtalantikite »

scrumper wrote: post #104

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…

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.

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

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Post by chrinic74929 »

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

> 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

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

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Post by noman-land »

MisterTea wrote: post #88

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 wa…

Thanks for the exciting first person account.

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

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Post by markbnj »

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.
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