North-East Earthquake 2024

Bricksnbeatles

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Just experienced an earthquake for the first time… crazy!

Felt an earthquake a few min ago. No damage or anything but it was eery for sure! Around 20 seconds of constant shaking. More than strong enough for things to be falling over, but thankfully here at least nothing fragile or dangerous fell.

checked in with my litho classmates and it seems it was felt across Long Island, NYC, NJ, and as far as Albany. Conflicting reports that it was a 4.8 with the epicenter in Tewksbury, New Jersey or a 5.5 with the epicenter in NYC.

Anyone else on the forum feel it? I know quite a few of you are within the range it was felt. Hope y’all are safe.
 
I'm in Northern NJ about 35 miles NE from the epicenter and wfh today. I stepped away from my desk for a few minutes to pick up my guitar and practice. Not too far NE of here there's a military base and occasionally I hear bombs going off or something like that and makes a low rumble for a moment kind of like rolling thunder that shakes the windows in your home. Today it felt muuuuuuuuuch different, like it wouldn't stop and actually got worse. 10 seconds later I get a call from my wife to see if I felt what she felt. Of course I did.

Last earthquake to hit this area was back in 2011, but I was on vacation in upstate New York and didn't feel it. This was my first earthquake. Of course some of you California folks think this is child's play.

Oh, and Buddy's ok(y)
 
I got reports from coworkers in central MA and central southern NH who felt it. I didn’t notice anything here in south-west NH.
 
Experienced a 6.4 in my home 2022, Northern CA….. legitimately awoke to the thought “this is how I die” … thought my house was going to collapse on top of me. Then after it was over, my thought was crap… I have 2 75 Gallon fish tanks!! They almost fell off their stands, it’s a miracle they didn’t
 
Nothing lately. In 1971 my house was 40 houses away from the epicenter of the San Fernando quake. All the door knobs catches sheared off and we couldn't get out of the house till we disassembled the front door. Massive damage. No water for about 3 months. No electricity for a week. Gas worked tho!

We hooked a generator up to the swimming pool filter, jerry-rigged a connection to the garden hose, turned off the main water valve and had hot running showers months before the water came back on. We were very popular with the neighbors!

In 1994 we were about 5 miles from the Northridge quake, but it was MUCH larger than the 71. Amazingly very little damage to my house, but everything around me was afu. Just in a spot where the harmonics were minimized, or uhhhhhh hu hu hu...... something.

About 7 years ago there was a massive 7.6 quake out in the desert. This was the first quake where I wasn't in bed, and I thought I was having a sudden medical issue as I couldn't stand or correct my balance and had to grab a table. Zero damage here, but totally nasty damage at the epicenter.....

There are around 300 earthquakes in California EVERY DAY. But it's a ***huge*** state with many uninhabitable zones and most of them are never felt....
 
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All of them have occurred in my township in NJ, today has been a pretty amazing day. Really felt and heard all of them, the 4.8, the 4.0 and the dozen aftershocks. All within ~4-5 miles from my house, so even the ~2.0 aftershocks gave us a real shake and made a booming noise. As a native Californian, I thought I had left earthquakes behind when I moved out east!

I put this pic on the More Jokes page earlier, thought it was funny:

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I have lived in California my whole life and didn’t realize the power of an earthquake until I arrived in this location to repair a portion of highway in Napa following the 2014 earthquake. If you look the center line of the road it is shifted about 18”. the crack under the concrete patch there I was told was formed miles deep.
 
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I have lived in California my whole life and didn’t realize the power of an earthquake until I arrived in this location to repair a portion of highway in Napa following the 2014 earthquake. If you look the center line of the road it is shifted about 18”. the crack under the concrete patch there I was told was formed miles deep.
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After the 71 quake, where I lived literally on the same block that adjoined the street with the epicenter, McDonnalds was across the street from "The Boys Market". They were level. After the earthquake McDonnalds was 25 feet higher than The Boys Market. Glenoaks street was split in half. Good thing it happened at 6am with only a few cars on the street.....
 
I’m in Brooklyn and we definitely felt it. I was sitting at the kitchen table working and I instinctively got up and went under the doorway. I have no idea why my brain did that, this was my second or third quake ever. My wife was on the couch and I told her to get up and under the doorway. It felt really long! No damage at all for us.
 
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