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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 gcr »

pxx wrote: post #58
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.

I received the earthquake alert about 45 minutes after it occurred.

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

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Post by floxy »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #105

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.

Speaking of cats and earthquakes, I just watched:

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?

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Post by dylan604 »

nostrademons wrote: post #111
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.

Sure, but at some point, you have to be told what "duck, cover, hold" actually means. Your comment as the first comment someone hears is like a news article using acronyms throughout the article without ever expanding the acronym.

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Post by throwup238 »

dylan604 wrote: post #124
nostrademons wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sure, but at some point, you have to be told what "duck, cover, hold" actually means. Your comment as the first comment someone hears is like a news article using acronyms throughout the article without ever expanding the acronym.

It’s the first thing we teach new arrivals to California along with “stop, drop, and toll” and what real Mexican food tastes like.

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Post by tombert »

tomrod wrote: post #109
sunshine_reggae wrote: post #79

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

I hadn't heard of rumble yet. But after reviewing it, of course this exists...

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.

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

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Post by jmspring »

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.
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