OT: Shaking in NJ

[Strain]

This is the first I hear about it. LOL.
Was working in NYC on the 9th floor, didn't feel a thing.

[PaulE]

Felt it this morning in Northern NJ about 50 miles from the epicenter and also an aftershock around 6 PM. The morning event had a very loud rumbling here, with lots of shaking.

[ChainNoise]

Wife and kids were home (about a 9 mile drive from epicenter) and I was at work in Denville. Felt it bad for about 20-30 seconds at work and was very loud, wife and kids were freaked out big time. They thought the house was falling apart. Felt the other 4.0 tremor at around 6pm too. CRAZY!

[paredown]

The Washington Post has a good article about East coast quakes--apparently the tremors are felt for longer distances than on the West coast,

It has long been known that earthquake shaking travels farther on the East Coast than on the West Coast.
The USGS says earthquakes can be felt over an area 10 times larger on the East Coast.On the West Coast, “the rocks are warmer, so they are more active, they’ve experienced activity more recently — so they’re warmer and will attenuate or absorb some of the seismic energy as they pass through that rock,” Carchedi said.

By contrast, the rocks are cold and brittle on the East Coast, and they transfer seismic energy much better than the West Coast.

Some interesting stuff in this article (gift):
https://wapo.st/3U6JnVO

And I did feel the aftershock -- not as dramatic, but enough to rattle the same sliding door as the original episode.

[Hank Scorpio]

Originally Posted by ridethecliche

CHOP sent out an email blast about it this morning as I was heading home from an overnight shift. Reported just that... epicenter in NJ and felt in NYC and Boston.

Wild.



East Orange...Lyons...
Are you at the VA? I rotated through the PTSD unit at Lyons during my intern year. I thought it was a great program.

Yes, I was on the acute MH floor at Lyons for quite some time. Not sure which side of the desk I should have been on most days. I have a lot of friends in the PTSD unit as well as floating there myself. What years were you there?

[LJohnny]

Daughter is currently visiting NYC and she reports that she didn’t feel anything. But from what I see on the news, it felt like the metro train going by with a bit more shaking, so likely not hard to miss if you are in a busy area in NYC

[Mark McM]

I don't recall feeling any shaking this morning just outside of Boston, but oddly I experienced some intermittent internet outages around 10:20am - 10:30am this morning. Maybe just coincidence, but who knows?

[ctcyclistbob]

We felt it here in central CT.