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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 eatonphil »

altdataseller wrote: post #4

Didn’t even feel at all? Was in Queens, NY, strangely a couple of people around me felt it though

I'm in Forest Hills (fifth story) and at first I thought it was the usual extreme wind we get because the windows were shaking heavily. Then it got worse and I realized what it was when I felt it through the floor.

I've felt at least one other in the last year or two here but my wife in the other room did not. This one was the strongest I've been through though.

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

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Post by theandrewbailey »

IG_Semmelweiss wrote: post #5

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> Episodic tremor and slip (ETS) is a seismological phenomenon observed in some subduction zones that is characterized by non-earthquake seismic rumbling, or tremor, and slow slip along the plate interface.

New Jersey is nowhere near a subduction zone, or any plate boundary.

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

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Post by s-kymon »

_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 thought it was a train or truck going by

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

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Post by smlacy »

ziddoap wrote: post #23
IG_Semmelweiss wrote: post #5

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Not being familiar with the field, why would it be tremendously helpful to refer to it as a tremor instead of earthquake? Tremendously helpful to the people who felt it? Or to geologists?

Tremor-endlessly helpful
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