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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 Etheryte »

nostrademons wrote: post #144
dylan604 wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 relatively self-explanatory. The full expansion would be " Duck under a table or other rigid object. Cover your head. Hold on."

Yeah no, unless someone has previously told you what it means there's no way of guessing that, that's just wishful thinking.

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

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Post by ccurrens »

neogodless wrote: post #136

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.

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.

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

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Post by jjulius »

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.

What a strange comment - I strongly doubt that schools are teaching that phrase without simultaneously expanding on what the phrase means. Introduce the phrase, explain it at the deeper level, then move forward with using the phrase once the students have been taught its deeper meaning. Why flippantly assume that that's not being done?

I grew up on the west coast and that's exactly how it was taught to us in public schools.

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

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Post by ccurrens »

EGreg wrote: post #2

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-swar...

USGS suggests that this was a main earthquake of a series. I guess there was one mid march

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...

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

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Post by bitwize »

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.

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

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Post by neilv »

pjsg wrote: post #7

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.

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.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ccurrens wrote: post #153
neogodless wrote: post #136

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.

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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