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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 Aloisius »

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

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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."

It's:

DROP or DUCK down to your hands and knees

Take COVER protecting your head/neck with an arm and crawl under a sturdy table/desk possible or to a nearby interior wall away from potential falling objects

HOLD ON to your shelter if you have it or head/neck with both hands if you don't

It's not as obvious as stop, drop and roll which is why drills are a thing in schools.

It's also not terribly far from duck and cover drills for nukes or tornadoes as I understand it. The hold on bit was added to keep people from tripping and breaking a leg while running around while the ground is shaking.

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

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Post by dylan604 »

chasd00 wrote: post #295
bee_rider wrote: post #282

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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.

i live in dallas, about 10 years ago there was a small tornado skipping up and down about 3 miles north of me (they typically move SW to NE). I got in the car to "chase" it and made it to the end of my street. It was so ominous looking I turned around and went back home.

> It was so ominous looking I turned around and went back home.

We have a word for that...smart.

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

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Post by hackernj »

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…

We do get tornados in NJ. About 3 per year.

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

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Post by potatolicious »

_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 living on the 30th floor in Manhattan during Sandy. I grew up in a hurricane-prone area so remembered to fill the tub.

Watching all the water slosh around as the building swayed was... disconcerting.

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Post by dylan604 »

jb1991 wrote: post #284
carabiner wrote: post #271

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You think the west coast has tornados and hurricanes? West coast by the pacific ocean has even milder weather than the east.

I think you’re drawing the wrong conclusion from the post. There was no suggestion of tornadoes on the West Coast. It was a discussion of relatively isolated meteorological phenomena in the northeast corridor.

While not part of Tornado Alley, the west coast does get tornadoes. There was at least one when I lived there, and I think I heard about another within the past year (maybe two). The one when I lived there actually started as a waterspout and came across the beach near Santa Monica to be reclassified as a tornado.

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

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Post by low_common »

bee_rider wrote: post #240
tzakrajs wrote: post #212

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What is a Nor'easter?

It’s just a hurricane in the winter, no biggie. We would enjoy the snow and check out the surf (from a safe distance). I think you aren’t officially supposed to suggest the latter though.

I throw on a dry suit and go surfing. It's awesome.

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Post by jrockway »

saalweachter wrote: post #234
cmollis wrote: post #220

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we've had tornadoes in NJ..

The East Coast gets microtornadoes that deshingle roofs or tip trees over. The Midwest gets MS Paint eraser tool tornadoes.

The East Coast gets EF3 and EF4 tornadoes.
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