NJ Earthquake: It turns out that's what the bang and boom here was.

[NNadir]

Around 10:23 I heard a big boom and the house shook. (I'm working from home.)

I thought it was a plane crash or something like that - it was that loud.

It seems it was an earthquake.

It was nothing like those I experienced when I lived in California, and I didn't recognize it as such, but that's what it was.

4.8 magnitude earthquake felt in Delaware, New Jersey, New York and PA. What we know

Oh well...

[woodsprite]

1. When we had an earthquake centered in VA

Several years back, some Delaware buildings had minor structural damage. They said that due to the composition and age of the rock base, earthquakes of an equal magnitude on the east coast will be felt in a larger area than those on the west coast.

[Wicked Blue]

2. Dang, I must have missed it

I'm in Ocean County. We get all kinds of noises from McGuire AFB. And a crew is doing a cleanout at the house across the street. It' gets pretty loud.

[NNadir]

3. Well, I couldn't imagine what it was and I did think it involved aircraft, since we're not that far from a regional...

...airport. It wouldn't have been normal aircraft noise - which in any case is relatively rare here - but I thought there might have been an accident.

I guess my Earthquake sensitivity, which was well developed when I lived in California, has lapsed. It's been more than 30 years since my last California Earthquake experience. My son, who works at Rutgers didn't feel it, but my house vibrated here; my wife, who works on the 7th floor of a Philadelphia building felt it.

[-misanthroptimist]

4. Link to USGS shake map

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

Edit to add link to main USGS map: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=39.55065,-77.87109&extent=41.81636,-72.59766&listOnlyShown=true&baseLayer=street&timeZone=utc

[Wicked Blue]

10. I see thHooe quake wasn't too far from tfg's golf club

Hmmmmmm

[Mossfern]

5. My house shook and there was a terrible

rumbling low roaring sound. At first I thought is was a tornado or microburst, but the sky was wrong for that. I just dashed away from the bay window where I was sitting - heart racing.

[NNadir]

6. Well, you were more sensible than I was during my wife's first Earthquake in California.

I ran toward the window to see if there were waves in the pool in the apartment complex we were in. It wasn't that big of a quake; we lost some dishes and an overhead light fixture.

My wife correctly informed me that I was being an idiot by running toward the window. (I was young and stupid.)

Later on, while in bed, during the 1992 Landers earthquake which certainly felt like a "big one" in San Diego, mostly because it didn't stop for what seemed a long time, she woke up to suggest we pull the blankets over our heads.

After the quake was over I asked her what exactly the blankets might have done if the ceiling fell on us. She didn't have a good answer.

This one was interesting, but only a little scary compared to those I've known in the past, only because it was so unexpected.

More fun in the nirvana that is New Jersey!!

[Mossfern]

7. Ha! Your reaction was like my husband's

during a microburst on our property. He ran to the window to watch!

[elleng]

8. The quake on Friday occurred on the Ramapo system of faults, which runs through

arms of the northern Appalachian Mountains in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/05/us/earthquake-new-york

[NNadir]

9. New Yorkers are always trying to find faults in New Jersey.

I know. I used to be one.

(It's a joke.)