Just a note… NUCLEAR BOMB? …yeah that’s histrionics on your part . Even those who back your nonsense understand the silliness of that. There are shifts going on daily just off the East Coast…. Someday there may be one which is larger but 4.7 though not insignificant is nowhere near a nuke explosion. There was a great deal of hyperbole in your posting.
OT: Just had an earthquake
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The sound reminded me of growing up on Long Island, and the incoming Concorde would line up for final approach at JFK every morning around 9am. Rolling thunderous rumbling that just keeps going.
Stress on your foundation is more dangerous than wind (30-40mph) on the rest of the home.
I first thought it was an explosion, but then thought it was a sonic boom from something
Vibrations must get very muffled and attenuated when you have your head so firmly implanted up your own ass...
I'd like this response a couple times more if I could.
You also said you were outside. Were you stationary at the time? Walking? Riding on equipment? I was inside a large building with about 20 people nearby. Every single one of them knew something just happened.
LOL! Hysteria?? That's a bit dramatic. As an aside, there were patients here who arrived after who were quite concerned. But hysteria??? Again, LOL!!,
That nuclear bomb comment set a new standard for hysteria on this board. LOL!
My wife was at the gym doing yoga. She sent a text saying her downward dog turned into an upright one.
Stay in your lane and stick to finances. We've had 50-60 mph wind gusts here many times (and higher during Sandy) and with regard to house shaking, those winds led to minor shaking compared to the shaking we just had. That's because the force is distributed completely differently from winds (across the whole house's surface area) vs. an earthquake, which is completely focused on the foundation, creating rotational moment arms above the foundation proportional to the earth's acceleration and the mass of the building, leading to much more shaking, especially on upper floors which are further from the foundation.
Seriously - what is the medical condition for the handful or so posters who are soo concerned about someone else's nuclear bomb comment?
Get off the guy's jock for the love of god, it's pathetic.
Get off the guy's jock for the love of god, it's pathetic.
That sucks, but thanks for chiming in - was really wondering if there was some minor damage at the epicenter. I'm still amazed we didn't have a ton of stuff falling off of shelves other than one item that we just found in one of the other bedrooms.
Especially given how clueless he is about the science, but that's not unusual for him or a few others.
Do you remember the pipeline explosion in Edison in the mid 90s?
Explosion of some sort was my first thought…gas? Attack? Then I was convinced it was a sonic boom..then the texts came in that it was a quake lol
I knew right away this was a quake. After 2011 I knew the feeling.
We've been getting aftershocks (all very minor) ever since then too.
Yes. That one broke things like the Washington Monument. This was very minor. Had wine bottles clinking each other but didn't see anything moving.
The biggest shaking we ever experienced, until now (which was way more), was the Texas Eastern pipeline explosion in 1994 next to the Durham Woods apartment complex in Edison. Seemed way closer than it was and the fireball was in line with a Mobil chemical facility at the time, about 3/4 mile away. Since my wife was pregnant and we had no idea if there might be a toxic gas cloud, we were out of the house and driving away within 1 minute until we heard something on the radio saying it was a pipeline explosion/fire about 1.25 miles away. Had a friend who lived there and got out with whatever he could carry as his building later burned down - was so lucky it didn't happen during the day as there was a playground at ground zero (only 1 person died, miraculously and that was a heart attack).
I recall that one too. A coworker at the time lived in a condo in Edison. She got thrown across the room.
I lived probably less than a mile from the 1970 refinery explosion, that one stands out for people in the area. The entire sky was lit up, this was at midnight.
just to set the record straight for a few posters, the Ramapo fault type is different than those out west, so you can’t completely compare the two. West coast quakes have more lateral movement which causes more damage (especially foundation and structural) but may not be felt as intensely. A northeast quake at a depth of less than 5km (which is a shallow quake anywhere on the planet) will feel more “intense” as the fault type produces more of a vibrating/shaking/thudding rather than a swaying effect.
So it’s appropriate for some to say this felt more intense than similar quakes on the west coast but caused less damage overall.
So it’s appropriate for some to say this felt more intense than similar quakes on the west coast but caused less damage overall.
I can understand people are shocked since we in New Jersey are isolated from things such as an earthquake. The poster is upset because he can’t see the comparison makes absolutely no sense. I ain’t a scientist working on vaccines and cures granted but …. the nuke thing was funny . I have been in tornadoes out west… if you want a nuclear bomb comparison then that’s relatively close. He should spend a month with those seismologists out in Wyoming .
