By Gus Saltonstall
A 4.7 magnitude earthquake shook New York City on Friday morning, according to initial reports and government officials.
Multiple Upper West Siders reached out to West Side Rag sharing that they had felt their building shake around 10:25 a.m. Those Upper West Siders joined with first-hand accounts from residents all over New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
The government’s official earthquake tracker puts the epicenter of the quake in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey.
“New York City just felt the impacts of a 4.8 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter of Lebanon, New Jersey,” Fabian Levy, Mayor Eric Adam’s deputy mayor for communications, tweeted out. “@NYCMayor is being briefed. While we do not have any reports of major impacts at this time, we’re still assessing the impact.”
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It may have been centered in Lebanon, NJ, but it’s Ramapo’s fault.
Yeah. Screw Ramapo! 🙂
In an earthquake?
1. Get under strong table of desk, taking blanket to cover your head if possible.
2. Hold on to something (drop, cover, hold on!)
3. Stay away from windows or things that could fall on you
4. Take your cell phone under the table with you!
5. Don’t try to go outside while buildings are shaking
Are you THE Irwin Redlener? As in the Founding Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness?
If so, thanks for weighing in. I will do whatever you tell me to!
Yep, it’s me!
(Thanks for noticing)
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Nothing: Noticed nothing on 24th floor of 25-story high-rise. Alerted now for any after-shocks.
Same building. Fourth floor. Nothing. Very disappointing. But I survived a deadly one in 1977 and it was no fun to be shaken like hell in the dark and to hear the building cracking.
I thought my cat was pushing the back of my chair, but there was no cat. Only when a friend called me much later was I aware there had been an earthquake. I am in a 20 floor building on the top floor (Park West Village).
Is it an earthquake?
Or merely a shock?
Is it the real turtle soup?
Or only the mock.”
With thanks to Cole Porter.
I was sitting in my parked car and wondered why my car was shaking.
What will the far right think of next?
As Ben Shapiro wrote recently, whenever there is a problem, the left blames global warming and the right blames DEI
But most of all they blame each other
Verizon Wireless network struggling in NYC area?
My wife and I cannot make or receive wireless calls. Each call connects then drops after a second. I think VZW has earthquake damage. I could not reach VZW tech support by phone, and when I tried text chatting with a tech on their website, I got this graphic instead: “Verizon Assistant: I’m sorry but are experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again in a moment.”
Hmm, my coworkers and I all have Verizon wireless (they’re in Queens and Brooklyn) and they were able to reach me. Cell and landlines are working. Try toggling your ‘airplane mode,’ and ‘bluetooth,’ make sure they’re both off. Sometimes it’s just a temporary glitch.
Wow! That was fast! One hour after an earthquake rumbles through and the Rag has already posted the story. You folks give new meaning to “hot off the presses!”
Felt this one as a brief, strong shaking. I was asleep during the last one (was that 2011?) and dreamed I was in the subway and a train was approaching….
This happens every time the Democrats schedule an eclipse.
I live in the West 70s but today I’m in Putnam County, 60 miles north of Manhattan. The house I’m in shook about as hard as you’d want a house to shake for a good 20 seconds.
I was on the 9th floor, felt nothing, folks on the first floor felt it
If you follow that USGS earthquake tracker link in the original post, you can fill out a short citizen science survey to describe what, if anything, you experienced from the quake.
Our apartment and pipes started rattling and we assumed it was a plumbing problem. Didn’t realize it was an earthquake until we saw the news.
Just felt another tremor. At 6 pm.
I did too-at 6 pm, was looking for someone who felt it also.
Wondering how our neighbors in super talls are feeling.
The morning quake and evening aftershock were also felt in Connecticut; I’m in Wilton 42 miles east of the UWS.
It covered from Maine to Washington DC👀
Those “alerts” kept going off during the concert (Ravel, Scriabin) at the Philharmonic this morning. At first we all thought it was a phone.
I thought our conductor, Karina Canellakis, and soloist, Alice Sara Ott, handled it magnificently.
I heard of another suggestion: For protection during quake, try to be very close to couch or bed so debri can land onto those surfaces and not onto you.
I grew up in San Francisco— I was amused at the fuss yesterday — we barely blink for earthquakes under 5.0.
But you guys can “laugh back” when they get 1/2 inch of snow! I guess “ho-hum” is all relative!