M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake

Post by triceratops » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 6:02 PM UTC

bee_rider wrote: post #255

manojlds wrote: post #236

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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…

Post by triceratops » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 6:05 PM UTC

slingnow wrote: post #138

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?

Do you think that earthquakes transmit instantaneously? Why would they not have a propagation speed like everything else in the universe?

Post by 0_____0 » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 6:05 PM UTC

russellbeattie wrote: post #257

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.

Post by eej71 » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 6:15 PM UTC

bee_rider wrote: post #282

thekevan wrote: post #272

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>mild thunderstorm What!?! We have some doozies here in the summer. (Finger Lakes region of NY.)

We had some allright thunderstorms in MA, but I lived briefly in the Midwest and—they have these thunderstorms that are still scary even when you are inside. It is bizarre.

Post by foobarian » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 6:17 PM UTC

chimeracoder wrote: post #278

baq wrote: post #246

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Weather nerds will get very confused by ‘a cold hurricane’ since hurricanes are tropical cyclones and tropical cyclones have a warm core by definition. …but they’ll be fine with a ‘a big cold cyclone’ I guess ;)

> Weather nerds will get very confused by ‘a cold hurricane’ since hurricanes are tropical cyclones and tropical cyclones have a warm core by definition. Well, it's literally true: a hurricane is a tropical cyclone, and a nor'easter is an extratropical cyclone. A nor'easter is literally the "cold" counterpart of a hurricane!