A 4.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded this morning near Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, per the United States Geological Survey. According to Google, Whitehouse Station is about 65 miles from the Upper West Side.
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While no damage has currently been reported as a result of the 10:23 a.m. incident, residents from NJ, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Delaware and New York say they felt some movement.
“I was sitting on the couch. The room started to shake and the pictures on the piano fell down,” said one woman who lives in a high-floor apartment in the West 60s near the Hudson River.
At about 11 a.m., we asked our Facebook and Twitter followers to chime in. Responses were mixed, but many people (in both high- and low-floor apartments across NYC) said they felt it.
“…wasn’t a great feeling on 39th floor,” wrote one follower.
Dr. Judith Hubbard, a geologist, said this was the largest earthquake to ever hit the area.
The M4.8 earthquake that just struck New Jersey is the largest event in the catalog for this map area.
Seeing huge numbers of felt reports! Typically, East Coast quakes are felt over wider areas than West Coast ones due to… pic.twitter.com/8Rvybp64tW
— Dr. Judith Hubbard (@JudithGeology) April 5, 2024
Mayor Adams is expected to hold a briefing about the earthquake at noon, which at the very least should be entertaining, given the limited amount of time he’s had to prepare. Adams’ briefing can be streamed here.
You outta be worried about WWIII breaking out Middle East !
….and then, on the northern front, Russia invades Finland/Sweden/Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia after nuking Ukraine……whilst, on the eastern front, China finally invades Taiwan and, we can only hope, Argentina figures the UK is too distracted by all of the above and they, the Argentines, try to take back the Falklands, again! California finally annexes all of Baja
and Mexico pays for the wall after all.
2nd quake to affect uws in about 30 years. have experienced them elsewhere
I was on the phone with someone on the UES when my building started to shake. She said, “Is your building shaking?” I told her yes—mine too! I remember one like this in the early 1980s!