Earthquake in northern new jersey just now.

[Zeze]

What a surreal feeling WOW. My desk and floor started to rumble. For a moment it felt like something was going to drill out of my floor. I thought there was a major construction starting near me. I instantly got out of my basement closet and ran up to my wife in her throne. She happened to be on a zoom call and her coworkers throughout Long Island NY, Shorthills NJ all felt it.

Based on the Richter scale, this is probably a 3.5.

 

[Oyeve]

I felt it in LES manhattan!

 

[jmagg]

Son just called from Troy NY, said it was fairly strong

 

[stargazr]

My brother in law in Doylestown, PA just experienced it as well.
4.7

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/executive

 

[Red Squirrel]

Never felt an earthquake but have felt rock blasting. It's a really weird feeling to have the whole ground shake under you, and it feels like it's very local like coming from the basement or something, even though it's not. With blasting it's more sudden and quick, like a bang. Apparently if they blast when it's foggy out, it can propagate further. They're normally suppose to wait if there's fog. Sometimes we do get seismic activity here caused by mining, although I never personally felt any of it. There has been some minor earthquakes underground that have actually shut down parts of the mine. There's mine tunnels pretty much all over the city, it's actually pretty wild how deep it goes. Like several CN towers worth.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

My brother in law in Doylestown, PA just experienced it as well.
4.7

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/executive

Guessed it would be 4.5 or so for people to feel it and immediately identify it. At least that was my experience from living in LA.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Never felt an earthquake but have felt rock blasting. It's a really weird feeling to have the whole ground shake under you, and it feels like it's very local like coming from the basement or something, even though it's not. With blasting it's more sudden and quick, like a bang. Apparently if they blast when it's foggy out, it can propagate further. They're normally suppose to wait if there's fog. Sometimes we do get seismic activity here caused by mining, although I never personally felt any of it. There has been some minor earthquakes underground that have actually shut down parts of the mine. There's mine tunnels pretty much all over the city, it's actually pretty wild how deep it goes. Like several CN towers worth.

A lot of earthquakes will feel like jolts. They're not all rolling; only the bigger ones (4.5 and above) seem to feel like they go on for any appreciable length of time. At least that was my experience living in Los Angeles for 9 years.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

East Coast isn't normally earthquake prone is it? I don't recall hearing about quakes out there, especially NJ, NY area.

 

[Charmonium]

I'm in central Jersey. I was asleep and it woke me up. I went back to sleep.

edit - Basement kitty must have shatted herself.

 

[BoomerD]

4.8? California rolls back over and goes back to sleep…

 

[K1052]

4.8? California rolls back over and goes back to sleep…

yes

 

[RPD]

Did some lawn chairs fall over?

 

[MrSquished]

I thought my dog farted

 

[SteveGrabowski]

4.8? California rolls back over and goes back to sleep…

LOL 4.5 was literally the threshold that woke me up from a nap one time

 

[feralkid]

What Air Defense Doing?

 

[Brainonska511]

Didn't feel it near Boston, but my mom just to the south said she felt it.

 

[RearAdmiral]

Woke me up from a sickness induced nap, I thought I was maybe hallucinating at first. My big palm tree was shaking, crib at the end of the bed smacking into the bed itself, stuff in the closet hitting the door. I think even the pipes in the wall next to me were hitting it. This lasted a good 20 seconds maybe so I eventually realized I wasn't making it up.

 

[Charmonium]

A 4.8 is like having a girl turn to you and say "is it in yet?"

 

[KMFJD]

i was on the top floor of a new apartment building that we where renting in the Philippines when we got hit by a 6.5 , dad and i just laughing our asses off while two of the locals turned white as a ghost (found out later that these apartments where new because the previous ones had crumbled during a recent (20year) earthquake)

The only other experience i have is a few in the Dominican Republic which i could barely feel yet moved the walls enough to leave a fist sized gap

 

[igor_kavinski]

I've only ever felt jolts and those also the gently back and forth rocking kind. Didn't enjoy them at all coz they made me dizzy (my inner ear balance thingy is really bad). I hope never to find out what a real earthquake feels like. Not sure if I would even be able to get to safety due to the jolts making me all queasy and nauseous.

 

[BoomerD]

Noo Joisey? Don’t you mean “West of Manhattan.”

Hochul dragged for referring to New Jersey as ‘west of Manhattan’ in earthquake statement: ‘Fighting words’

The rare, 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Lebanon, New Jersey on Friday morning.

nypost.com

“A 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit west of Manhattan and has been felt throughout New York,” Hochul shared on X a few minutes after 10:30 a.m.

 

[Charmonium]

@BoomerD - I don't know this for a fact but I'm pretty sure that's how peeps in NYC look at NJ - we're the "bridge and tunnel" crowd. Although I guess that also applies to the other 4 burroughs.

 

[esquared]

4.8? California rolls back over and goes back to sleep…

I sleep through 5's.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

@BoomerD - I don't know this for a fact but I'm pretty sure that's how peeps in NYC look at NJ - we're the "bridge and tunnel" crowd. Although I guess that also applies to the other 4 burroughs.

You know what the say, the best thing about NJ is the view.

 

[Iron Woode]

someone set us up the bomb?