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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

#91

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?

Same thing happened to me. I was on a facetime with someone in Brooklyn, but I was a 2 hour drive north outside of NYC and it took what felt like 30 seconds to propagate over that 200km.

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

#92

This 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.

Yeah, since I moved to Seattle in 2011 there have been two largeish quakes in the northeast. I have yet to feel one in Seattle.

Of course now I've jinxed myself.

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

#95
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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.

My first earthquake experience. I thought maybe I was imagining things but when the walls started to shake I got out

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

#96

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?

Earthquakes propagate very slowly (around 2-8 miles/sec). That's how systems like ShakeAlert can send out early warning notifications. This one, for example, happened 40+ miles from NYC proper, so residents could have had like 20 seconds notice if the service operated here. People further up or down the coast could have had multiple minutes.

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

#97
Yep - felt it here in northern NJ, as did friends in NY and CT.

Working from home - all windows rattling/etc - first thought something was happening inside house, then looked outside expecting something massive driving by perhaps!

Kids at high school did classroom emergency shelter-in-place.

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

#98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not the first time you've made a post like this - just because it's a weird pet peeve of yours does not mean you are right.

its informational. TREMOR - NO life or financial loss EARTHQUAKE - life or financial loss

That’s an arbitrary definition you made up, as has been pointed out before.
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