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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 13of40 »

foxyv wrote: post #201
_sword wrote: post #9

That was eerie! I felt my apartment building start to rock and sway as the walls were creaking. Not something I’m used to as a NY native, and not something I loved to experience 20+ floors above the ground.

I remember being in a 4th floor office and feeling the building sway. I can't imagine how terrifying 20+ floors up would be.

I was in the one in Seattle around 2000 on the 5th floor of a building, and I distinctly remember walking down the hall with the building swaying like a boat in a storm, wondering when the whole thing was just going to snap and crumble into a pile of rubble. Luckily it turns out they make modern buildings not do that. I've been back to that building and they still have cracks in the stairwell from it, though.

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

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Post by chrinic74929 »

cocochanel wrote: post #216
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…

it's a 4.8 lol

> it's a 4.8 lol

Equivalent in lateral motion/shakiness to a California 6.0 due to the shallow depth of the 4.8

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

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Post by fullstop »

nickjj wrote: post #247
fullstop wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 fee…

If my eyes were closed I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between it and a washing machine running on a floor below you. I really only noticed it because my monitors were wobbling a decent amount. > Is it even possible for someone a few houses away to experience drastically different seismic activity? I'm not sure but there's probably variables around how sturdy things are (the foundation, floor, walls,…

I was at a desk which also has a bunch of my wife's art supplies on it. That stuff definitely would have moved.

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

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Post by aaronharnly »

manojlds wrote: post #236
bee_rider wrote: post #207

If 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…

I am very confused with you classifying earthquakes under "weather thingies"

Natural disaster thingies

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Post by bee_rider »

manojlds wrote: post #236
bee_rider wrote: post #207

If 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…

I am very confused with you classifying earthquakes under "weather thingies"

The thought process was: I know earthquakes aren’t really weather, so I’ll tack on “thingies” to make it clear that I’m making up some new more generalized term.

The point was to group all the… I dunno, whatever, surprising attacks by the planet into one thing. I can’t think of a real term for this, I think there might not be one, I guess I could call it something like “weather or geological surprises” but that’s just dull.

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Post by bee_rider »

aaronharnly wrote: post #254
manojlds wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am very confused with you classifying earthquakes under "weather thingies"

Natural disaster thingies

We can have natural disasters they just have to schedule beforehand.

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

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Post by russellbeattie »

bee_rider wrote: post #207

If 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…

I grew up in New England, but have lived in California for 30 years. A 4.7 is waaay larger than anything I've personally felt here!

Plus the Northeast is just not made for quakes. The 200 year old house I grew up in would probably have creaked pretty alarmingly.

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Post by [deleted] »

bee_rider wrote: post #255
manojlds wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am very confused with you classifying earthquakes under "weather thingies"

The thought process was: I know earthquakes aren’t really weather, so I’ll tack on “thingies” to make it clear that I’m making up some new more generalized term. The point was to group all the… I dunno, whatever, surprising attacks by the planet into one thing. I can’t think of a real term for this, I think there might not be one, I guess I could call it something like “weather or geological surprises” but that’s jus…

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

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Post by nobody9999 »

I'm in Manhattan (UWS) and live on the fourth floor of a five story walk-up. I felt the quake, but didn't realize that's what it was (I was a little confused as to why my building was vibrating -- for 40 seconds or so, as big trucks can do that but not for that long) until I received an emergency alert on my phone ~45 minutes later.

Nothing broken or dislodged, just wondering why my building was vibrating fairly gently.

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

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Post by nobody9999 »

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #217
swozey wrote: post #142

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I've never been in an earthquake it's got to be such a strange thing to experience the first time. Hearing tornado sirens for the first time was wild, especially as a Silent Hill fan. On the other hand my friend moved to Brooklyn from Haiti after their terrible quake so he's in a mood right now.

My only earthquake experience was also in NYC. In the 80's I was awakened by what can only be described as feeling as if someone had picked up the entire apartment building a couple inches and dropped it. Sudden and severe and over in a second or two.

Early morning on a weekday in 1985?

Yeah, I slept through that.

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