I felt it on Long Island over 100 miles away. I had headphones on and thought a really heavy truck was shaking the ground. It was enough to make my desk and monitors shake but nothing too crazy.
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#222I ran out because I thought the boiler was going to go kaboom.
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#223I 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'm on the Cape, and I heard some banging around that time. I thought my wife was just being loud in the shower.
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#224Show us your failed 3D prints!
Well tuned 3d printers are somewhat surprisingly mostly unaffected by earthquakes. People have even done stuff like hanging a printer and printing without any significant issue. It'd just show as a slight imperfection on that specific line.
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#225If any west-coasters are confused as to how this is news: the Northeast is sort of geologically unusual for the US in that we have almost no surprising, sudden weather thingies. No tornados, mild thunderstorm, occasional hurricanes (but they are usually weakened a bit compared to, like, Florida by the time they get up here and they’ve spent a long time going up the coast so they tend to be well tracked by forecasters…
What is a Nor'easter?
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#226Felt 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…
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#227Reading this on the toilet now wondering what my priorities would be if there was a quake in the next couple minutes.
Finishing up!
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a native Californian this provokes a bit of a chuckle. Try a six plus sometime! But seriously, I hope everything is fine.
Buildings a quite a bit older on the east coast and building codes are obviously more lax so we should probably have some empathy here haha.
Plus the main aqua duct that supplies several million people is old and fragile. A simple earthquake could possibly turn into a Flint, Michigan level disaster.
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#230I felt it on Long Island over 100 miles away. I had headphones on and thought a really heavy truck was shaking the ground. It was enough to make my desk and monitors shake but nothing too crazy.
I live about 20 miles from the epicenter and my neighbors said that their mirrors were shaking and monitors were wobbling. I felt nothing, at all, and my cats didn't move an inch.
I'm pretty observant with that sort of thing, so I'm a bit surprised.
Is it even possible for someone a few houses away to experience drastically different seismic activity?
Edit: I was on the ground floor, which is likely why I did not feel it.