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For laypeople, "earthquake" = "shakey shakey".
No further distinction is needed, warranted, or desired.
M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
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Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#62I'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?
They travel in waves through the rock!
Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#63I distinctly remember the first time I created a Twitter account (& probably became aware of Twitter being a thing) was the day when a similar earthquake was felt in NYC back in 2011...
Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#64I'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?
Everything has a propagation speed :P, but yes she probably felt it before you, then her signal made it to you faster than the Earthquake did.
Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#65Japan, Taiwan, New York, this is apparently the year of the earthquake.
4.7 is not really a strong earthquake, it s routine in earthquake-prone zones
> 4.7 is not really a strong earthquake, it s routine in earthquake-prone zones
NYC quake was at shallow depth.
4.7 quake at 1 km depth will shake more at the surface than a 6.0 at 30 km depth
Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#66I'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?
Yes. There is an excellent XKCD on the topic:
But in summary, the speed is slower than light, so yes you can find out through telecom faster than it getting to you.
Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#67I felt it in Delaware!
Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#68Japan, Taiwan, New York, this is apparently the year of the earthquake.
The hurricanes are coming soon. Oceans are warming up at record speeds this year already.
Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#69This is the second quake I've felt in Pennsylvania. The first was in 2011. I was born here and lived here for my whole life except for 4 years when I lived in CA, where I didn't feel any earthquakes.
Re: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
#70I distinctly remember the first time I created a Twitter account (& probably became aware of Twitter being a thing) was the day when a similar earthquake was felt in NYC back in 2011...
Yes! It was in the fall. The epicenter of that one was near Virginia though I think.
Edit: Here it is. It was the end of August which I consider the Fall cause that's when the Fall semester starts for me ^^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virginia_earthquake