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A friend of mine in Manhattan felt his whole building shake. That's over 25 miles away. This is WAAAAY more than a tremor.
M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
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#132Felt 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.
Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#133I'm near epicenter, felt the foreshock a few weeks ago too: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000mix0...
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#134I got alert after 10 mins of earthquake .....:(
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.
Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#135In 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.
Were you always on the 4th floor for the others?
You would feel it more the higher up you are as the building resonates.
Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#136Curious 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.
Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#137Felt 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.
Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#138I'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?
Do you think that earthquakes transmit instantaneously? Why would they not have a propagation speed like everything else in the universe?
Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#139Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#140Curious 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.
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.