Who felt the earthquake?

[PhishLI]

For a few seconds I thought our washing machine went out of balance badly, but then it sounded like a jet was coming down overhead. Everything shook. That made sense for a moment because we're only 20 minutes from Kennedy Airport. 4.7 quake with the epicenter located in Lebanon, NJ.

[Mike L]

I’m getting calls from friends in the NY, NJ and Conn area who felt it. 
Hardly any damage just scared a lot of people. 
 

 

 

Mike

 

 

[walleyecrazy]

Definitely felt it pretty good up here in NY.

[casts_by_fly]

We are 7 miles from the epicenter, so.....  Yeah.  We felt it.

 

The walls shook and the windows vibrated a lot, but nothing broke.  Just a couple canister lights that came out of the ceiling that I have to push back in.

 

we're also having aftershocks since the event.  Every 10-20 minutes one rolls through.  Sounds like thunder, but no vibration.

[Jar11591]

I was in a customers house replacing light fixtures. Didn’t feel anything, my coworker’s wife, boss’s wife, and my girlfriend all called us at the same exact time and we were all clueless because we didn’t feel anything. 

[Craig P]

My wife said she felt it at our house but I was driving at the time, heading to Cabela's in Hamburg, Pa and can't say that I felt anything.  Oh my wallet felt it though....

[casts_by_fly]

My wife was in the car a couple miles from here and didn't feel it either.

 

Supposedly there is a predicted earthquake for over the next two hours in the 1.5-2.0 range.

[gim]

I was living in the Bay Area in 1989 when the "big one" hit.  The World Series between the A's and Giants was just about to begin when a 7.1 rolled through the area.  I was only 7 years old at the time but I'll never forget it.

 

Our house didn't suffer much damage.  They teach you to get outside during a quake and if you cannot, you go under a doorway.  Get away from windows.  My family and I all made it outside, except my Father.  We later learned he was in the kitchen holding the cupboards shut to prevent dishes from coming out and shattering.  😲

 

The thing I remember most is going outside and seeing the street lights going back and forth like they were made of rubber.  They were hitting the street on one side and would hit the sidewalk when they went back.  These things were 20 feet high and bolted to the ground.

 

My family moved out of there about a year later.  Not necessarily just because of the earthquakes there, but for other reasons too.  There is very little warning on them.  Its not like a hurricane, wildfire, blizzard, or tornado coming when you have at least some time to prepare or evacuate.  Eventually there will be another big one on the west coast.  Its not "if", its "when."

[J Francho]

Nothing here in WNY, but I was on a call with a colleague from  LI and she felt it. 

[padlin]

We have all day earthquakes every Friday, the grandkids are here. 

 

Supposedly the folks in the school about a mile from us did.

[steves191145]

I was delivering  a piece of heavy equipment we sold to its new owner in North East MD but with all the pot holes I didn't notice.

[Glenn]

Meh. I sleep through those here on the west coast. LOL!

 

But...they say we're long overdue for a 9+ earthquake.  I WON'T sleep through that!

[DogBone_384]

Nothing from Boston

[casts_by_fly]

We had a second one of magnitude 4.0 a couple hours ago. It was centered a couple miles closer than the first. I think they are done now but who knows. 

[Swamp Girl]

Nothing in Maine. I've never felt one in my life. 

[PhishLI]

1 hour ago, casts_by_fly said:

We had a second one of magnitude 4.0 a couple hours ago.

My wife felt it at home, but I was driving down a bumpy road at the time and felt nothing. Where I live all the house's foundations are built on piles driven deeply through the sand into solid ground or rock. This entire shoreline development was put up on back filled salt marshes. We only have 8" of topsoil over loose sand as far a one can dig. Only a few miles away north of us, my sister-in-law felt barely anything, but her house is built with a conventional footing foundation on solid ground. I'm guessing the piles transmitted the tremors into our short beam-wall concrete foundation and the whole house oscillated because it's essentially like sitting on treetops in the wind during a moment like this. The collective rumble of the structures really did sound like a jumbo jet flying way too low or about to crash. Our neighborhood was out in the street to discuss it. Thankfully it wasn't an aftershock of something gone wrong in NYC, which crossed my mind immediately. After 2001, nothing would surprise me.

[TnRiver46]

We have them all the time, our only natural lake in all of TN was formed by an earthquake that sloshed water out of the Mississippi River. The only one I really felt was a 3.6 I think, its epicenter was in the neighborhood I was living in. The house rumbled from one end to the other and my roommate walked outside and looked up to the sky and said “it’s not even raining out here” 😂 

[J Francho]

We had a mid 3s a decade ago. Felt like a train going by.