4.8 Magnitude earthquake centered in New Jersey rattles the East Coast

An earthquake centered in Lebanon, N.J., struck the Northeast and could be felt throughout several states on the East Coast.
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#Earthquake #NYC #NewJersey

[@IGOBYTHENAMELOVE]

Those cheap landlords better get the buildings checked

[@julienrockingham-ip4co]

Nah for real

[@jamesm568]

Most people don't have earthquake insurance in that area.

[@Helpasis]

😂😂😂😂

[@PatrickXIII]

Yea, it hit Long Island too. Shook my whole building for about 5 seconds.

[@THEOGMOCO]

Capp

[@gravecode]

@@THEOGMOCOI’m in Woodbridge, Nj moms in Long Island felt it.

[@Karen-Ceplina-Hamski]

I am 74 on north east Long Island my brain said about 10 second my my panic attack said half an hour…i check the fireplace I was sitting by…thought some of the bricks got loose from wind and was falling…amazing what an old brain goes through when scared. Out last one out here took mirrors and pictures off the wall…

[@Helpasis]

It hits Massachusetts and Connecticut as well.

[@AyanChandra-f8b]

Same. I live in northeast nj and it also hit that area as well.

[@nathanjiang100]

I was 5 miles from the epicenter, felt the ground shaking for a good 30 seconds at least, thought it may have been a construction vehicle in the area but then it shook for a lot longer so I figured it had to be an earthquake. crazy to think that a magnitue 9 earthquake would feel over 10,000 times stronger than what we experienced here.

[@EdwardM-t8p]

"Oh this is nothing!" - Japan

[@iemjay]

“Hold my beer.” - Taiwan

[@boardcertifiable]

​@@iemjay"Pass it to me" - Chile

[@mrsplanetmaster9]

Los Angeles ☕🙋🏽

[@duthegee]

well of course it is nothing to them because they built everything to prevent catastrophe in case of an earthquake lol. The USA on the other hand...

[@FIRELIGHTPLAYZ]

@@mrsplanetmaster9Turkey

[@IdiotSandwich122]

I felt it in Canada! Southern Ontario, my desk was shaking, and when I looked outside, snow was falling off the trees.

[@HellkittyMeow]

I live a couple blocks away from the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia. The quake had the pipes rattling in the walls of my house.

[@nurseflo1437]

We felt it in Brooklyn!

[@diegoflores9237]

That was lizzo

[@javiruiz8365]

Same! I thought I was crazy!!!

[@mingfanzhang8927]

I’m in Brooklyn and I didn’t even feel the earthquake

[@nurseflo1437]

@ReelResources_ Yeah all is well! 🙏🏽Thanks for asking!

[@nurseflo1437]

@@mingfanzhang8927 Yeah one of friends said she didn’t but my building felt it. My neighbors were coming out afterwards. Someone was in the elevator when it happened. Thank God they didn’t get stuck. I thought maybe a pipeline had burst or something because it felt like a rumbling and then the shaking happened.

[@TheFrancessmith]

I thought it was a heavy truck going by shaken my window and plants!

[@user-jf1eg9oc2l]

Me neither I was scared

[@user-jf1eg9oc2l]

How is it over there with you?

[@selmaracha7606]

That s what I thought too!!

[@NCRP710]

Yea it felt like a truck where I am

[@DeeLite220]

I imagine it was scary af when you’re not used to them!

[@laurieannrogan1317]

I felt it here in the East Bronx and I was on the second floor. It shook for around a half a minute. I knew what it was but it was still startling.

[@Ayeayeaye614]

We've had 10 earthquakes in New Zealand on the last 10 hours

[@vivaelgato4541]

Taiwan got hit hard too, didn't it?

[@vivaelgato4541]

@@angelique_____ Wonder if this is a sign of worse things to come?

[@sweetabby1106]

You win?

[@Stickyickyslapshot]

How strong? And were 9 of them aftershocks?

[@iemjay]

@@vivaelgato4541No. earthquakes happen every day, It was inevitable to hit the northeast. I would be more concerned if it would hit Yellowstone.

[@celesteonorati23]

We live in Whitehouse Station, Hunterdon City NJ - very loud rumble, house shook, lasted about 20 seconds.

[@CautionHighWavesAhead-]

I'm about 50 miles away and felt it for around 10 seconds. Interesting. Thanks.

[@user-jf1eg9oc2l]

I was so surprised when I came across this Hello There

[@Youtubeuser1aa]

As a Californian, this is like seeing 1” of snow outside.

[@claireconover]

as a californian, you should probably be bracing for an earthquake. asia just had a strong earthquake. new jersey just had a significant, unusual earthquake. california sits on bedrock… and you’re overdue for a big one.

[@Athea34]

California 😂😂4.7 is nothing. I have slept through earthquake 5.7

[@DeeLite220]

We wouldn’t even get up for a 4.7 in California, but considering their infrastructure & residences aren’t really made for earthquakes like ours are, I can see how scary it must’ve been.

[@claireconover]

@@DeeLite220 correct. new york, new jersey (east coast as a whole) architecture is not made to withstand any shaking really.

[@Neeko_Z]

@@claireconover Well said.

[@hoodrooster224]

GODZILLA!!!

[@nightfire43]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@toryberch]

😂🤣🤣🤣 your too funny 😁

[@diegoflores9237]

Lizzo and cristie

[@Stacey-ul3oe]

😂😂😂

[@Laquea]

God 🙏🏾

[@RoyDemeosBrother]

I FELT MY BALLS BOUNCING ON THE WALL

[@Edmlady92]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ARCHCOMPO]

um sir, why were ur balls touching the wall

[@FatHeadEnterprises]

Happens to the best of us

[@LaurenOliviArt]

Wow 😂😂😂

[@deelee4933]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Grahzzyhardcore]

Felt in Vermont

[@marlenewawrzyniak5816]

I live in Essex, Maryland and I felt it. Shook my bed but my husband sitting in a chair felt nothing.

[@trevoidc9859]

Didn't feel it in Westminster, MD

[@MrTom-kl7hy]

These East Coast quakes are felt over long distances as the shockwave travels along these old granite mountain ranges. If you are on bedrock it's a jolting type shaking, if on "looser" valley ground, more like waves on a waterbed.

[@lechelists8711]

Oh man! I bet that was weird thing to experience.

[@heatherfoley2821]

We felt it in Pittsfield, MA. I thought a car hit the building.

[@richharris9489]

I felt it in lynn mass

[@jayjohnson3069]

I actually felt it in Vermont. Where I live is on ledge and I've felt a few over the years. This one was a gentle swaying of the house for 10-15 seconds. I was on the 2nd floor.

[@MP-xd1tc]

I felt it in North Bergen while looking out the window 10:23am and car alarms beeping. I thought it was my vertigo.

[@debbiesims138]

We had a slight tremor in Iowa years ago. I thought I was going crazy. Tornados? yes. Earthquakes? Never.

[@jerrilehane7815]

I felt it Northern Delaware,lasted ahot 5-6 seconds. Not even a 2 here probably.

[@coldbrewer003]

As a Californian, MEH.

[@Dontbadummy]

I felt it in Northern Maryland

[@redtitan6184]

The fourth largest earthquake in recorded history to hit New York, amazing. Earthquakes usually are more common on the west coast of the USA, especially in California but not so much on the east coast of the USA.

[@LKMNOP]

I'm around the Princeton area of New Jersey right now and it was major shaking. Such as I was standing and it made me so unsteady I literally had to reach for the wall so I wouldn't fall down. Any knick knacks in the place were moved some of them that were rather heavy moved 5 inches. So this is not the little tremors that they're getting in Manhattan. Here it was big and it lasted about 10 seconds and that was the scary part because it didn't stop.

[@antoinetteyoung1323]

We felt it 51 minutes ago in Ambler Pennsylvania. I thought a space ship landed on my roof. We ran outside and looked up. All my neighbors were out.🥲

[@whitehawk3776]

Here in California we are waiting for the big one anytime now.

[@claireconover]

you’ve been overdue for at least a decade…

[@AbsentWithoutLeaving]

You guys still fracking over there, or did y'all finally ban it?

[@robertodell8900]

I felt a good shake, in Hyde Park NY. Directly across the road from the FDR estate.

[@fatjack9096]

Al Roker is obviously shaken. It was northern Jersey, not southern. And the 2011 quake was in Virginia, not New Jersey.

[@Antdevamp]

First one? That's not an earthquake, that's called a 'pre-quake'.

[@AbsentWithoutLeaving]

Uh-oh.

[@Antdevamp]

@@AbsentWithoutLeaving Hey, you could be a butterfly for New Zealand too, they had 10 quakes for 10 hours. Maybe you got nothing!

[@AbsentWithoutLeaving]

@@Antdevamp - I don't know what you mean, but i live in Chicago (Illinois). We get the occasional minor quake, but nothing major. We've got the New Madrid fault line that runs through the southern part of the state though, and that zone is very active.

[@mrkeitt]

Verona NJ felt it. Had our apartment complex vibrating for a few seconds

[@KoKo-22.3.6.9]

felt it in East Brunswick NJ

[@suzieq4750]

Felt it in the Catskill Mountains!

[@BlakeBaldwin]

Live in NJ, didn’t even feel it

[@itzshayne_]

Every Knee will BOW !!! Time's running out.

[@JA-qt4qk]

20'000 earthquakes around the globe every single year, every year, for hundreds of years. Plenty of time left, but feel free to slam your head into the dirt and shove that silly old book of lies and fairytales that you're addicted to in both your holes.

[@Former_Pastor]

I'm not bowing to anyone especially to a sky bully

[@iemjay]

Time running out for what? Is a wee little earthquake making you scared? About 50 earthquakes occur worldwide every day.

[@untouchable360x]

"Amateur numbers." California

[@shondrawhite9317]

But it's not California. So completely different ball park. I noticed California has main character syndrome when it comes to earthquakes.

[@seanpinkey2188]

​@@shondrawhite9317 uhm, it's an Earthquake. You know? Here on Earth we get those, especially more so on faultlines like we do here in California. Not sure if you classify Earthquakes like folks who seperate M&M's by color, but the overreaction, and inability to understand humor leaves me thinking you probably don't get out much and if you do, you are the center of attention no matter how wrong or much of a fuss it takes. Go back to bed, Karen. 😂

[@Laquea]

​@shondrawhite9317 😅😅😅😂😊

[@Laquea]

​@@shondrawhite9317😂😂😅

[@jayandjlps8022]

Not true, people in Cali go insane over magnitude 3 earthquakes. California hasn't even seen a major earthquake in modern times unlike Japan and Chile. Dont spread lies 😂 A 4.8 in Southern California would be trending all over Twitter right now

[@jesusdisciple4216]

Felt this in my home real bad in orange county NY

[@K4t_13]

I felt it and it shook my house a good 15-20 seconds. Like a few days ago my entire block went out 💀 crazy spring break

[@generalali7609]

This was during the UN meeting about GAZA. Seems like a warning to the world.

[@demonatemu]

as a californian im glad nobody was hurt, good time to check up on those emergency kits!

[@DavidRamos-sr8cx]

4.8 and it’s national news? In California, if it’s not over 5.0, we go back to bed.

[@caro.caro.9578]

NorCal here. Yap!😂😂😂

[@shanerobinson925]

Might not even wake up til 6.0 😂😂 Bay Area🤟🏽

[@maxon-m3c]

I don't even bother getting up if it's not at least a 5.0.

[@shondrawhite9317]

Well the east coast isn't California. Main character syndrome.

[@philmabarak5421]

Irrelevant.

[@yvonneplant9434]

Felt in Philly. Vibrations. Get a real scientist to discuss it.

[@Mojo522]

I started looking online. I'm in Worcester, Massachusetts

[@Austinpowas]

Felt this 100miles north of the city. Also felt in Great Barrington Massachusetts

[@enckidoofalling2883]

Precursor a few minutes earlier. Also activity northern mid Atlantic ridge yesterday too. Also could still be a larger one.

[@trevorjensen2706]

Eh, 4.7 is not really that big of a deal.

[@Former_Pastor]

Right, Charlotte had a 5.1 a few years ago

[@101stairborne6]

@@Former_Pastorthat’s what she said 😏🌚

[@cocoabean8166]

It is, for a place that’s not used to such events. The infrastructure is not prepared for it, and neither are the people

[@Yeahson69]

Just another day over here in California

[@egassrf6066]

I was sleeping and felt my bed shaking...I live I Kew Garden hills...Queens...5th floor building

[@mikegray1706]

We had an unusual 4.7 yesterday for about 20 seconds at 4:30pm in the northern Sierras. Media barely mentioned it.

[@Luhwick_.]

If yu read the Bible it actually talks about how in the end times it will be a lot of earthquakes

[@ctsean]

@@Luhwick_. And if you read factual sources on the geology of the earth, it talks about how there have been a lot of earthquakes for the past 4 billion years and we are NOT experiencing more than usual right now

[@Luhwick_.]

@@ctsean well I don’t belive what the government has to say about earth also don’t belive earth is that old

[@ctsean]

@@Luhwick_. the government didn’t say anything about earth. Scientists have been studying it for over a thousand years.

[@Luhwick_.]

@@ctsean yea scientists dat work for government it’s all over the news not to mention who you think taught them this stuff

[@imanistrong4054]

Roker is only certified to tell us about the issues above ground not below.

[@hellfish1413]

Don't let this distract you from the fact that Hector is going to be running three Honda civics with spoon engines , and on top of that he just went into Harry's and bought three t66 turbos with nos, and motec exhaust systems.

[@dorothycrimley5247]

I am in Connecticut felt it to

[@kailanibpobpo3919]

My 1st time feeling an earthquake

[@truthbetoldihavereallyseen4065]

Washington , D.C. & Maryland areas had one back on Aug. 2011 too and places were shaking like Hula girls rocking….

[@ipastor94]

I wonder what the rats did during the earthquake 🤔

[@makeitmakesense2616]

Felt it in west Philadelphia

[@diegoflores9237]

Fresh prince?

[@yvonneplant9434]

Yes...also in Center City.

[@yvonneplant9434]

​@@diegoflores9237No one talks about him Philadelphia. No. One.

[@lindad1195]

We felt it in Maine!

[@diegoflores9237]

Nothing of value was damaged

[@charlescullens7170]

I live norheastern section in Elizabeth City, NC and I did not feel this earthquake.

[@matthart9251]

Hmm, I'm in Baltimore. I thought the roofers next door were stomping around and shaking my room but maybe that was the quake. 🤔

[@adamtharpe9587]

I felt it in Jersey City. NJ. Strong shaking for a few seconds. Sometimes we feel heavy shaking from trucks on the expressway going into the Holland tunnel but this was more violent shaking. But no aftershocks. Maybe the earth just shifted a bit.

[@s.terris9537]

No aftershocks --- yet. They don't necessarily come right away; they can come up to several weeks later. I'm from California, raised in NJ, "the voice of experience." Take care!

[@Joselove777]

Yooo everyone good? That earthquake was wild😱😬😳

[@Karen-Ceplina-Hamski]

I felt it here on Long Island north Easter end

[@High61Way]

aftershocks will prevail ,take a civil defense announcements in the central new jersey area . follow your block captain's directives and wear a pasta colander for added protection . this is the armed forces radio network reporting

[@tonymichaels8739]

I felt the earthquake in Bridgeport CT

[@michmonk]

Felt in Maryland.

[@JimmeShelter]

Somebody see if Chris Christie is down....

[@matthewnorton4647]

I felt it here in Southfield Massachusetts it caught me off guard I’m 35 years old I’ve never felt one before.

[@LovyDovy-w2e]

Where are the pics?

[@nickrael5693]

Knowing how in love northeastern people are with themselves this will dominate the main stream news for a full week.

[@reeddeer793]

Still less so than the southern theocrats!

[@philmabarak5421]

Or they just take responsibility for themselves.

[@yvonneplant9434]

Well people have stopped talking about the Key bridge already.

[@diegoflores9237]

Nyc is overrated. Have no desire to visit it. Only sheep that are gullible feel that visiting NYC is something special

[@starseyes2696]

Geez , another Southern methed up toothless backwoods commenter

[@rachels4610]

Felt it in the Binghamton ny area

[@Lisa.Soares]

Felt it in Warwick RI

[@naydeepolanco1603]

My sister in Boston said she felt it!

[@skylark1250]

Maybe not the Big One but still unnerving. It depends how close to the surface the tectonic shift occurs. In Carson City I was surprised by one early in the morning and could HEAR it coming before it rolled under my feet. It was unsettling.

[@Nitrotix1]

An aftershock in NJ around 6pm

[@prod.sheilaliveforever]

yeah, felt it. 6 on the dot for me.

[@Aliceintheair-w5v]

At this earthquake level, Taiwanese people would continue drinking tea.

[@imdone1967]

Here in California, I'd sleep thru it ....

[@paranoidhumanoid]

Hydroseismicity from excessive rainfall the last 60 days.

[@julienrockingham-ip4co]

I definitely felt that earthquake.😮It made all the plants in my apartment shake

[@lemasalu1354]

Please correct your stuff on your front page is it 4.7 or 4.8

[@user-kd9yy1tj3m]

The beginning I thought my son was jumping upstairs then I realize the whole house was shaking and the floor under my feet was shaking, I know it’s an earthquake. I was screaming on everybody To run outside. It’s an earthquake.

[@ninavongunten122]

Caused by underground construction or testing?

[@mo_1010]

I live in Towson Maryland. I was in school when it happened. Period 3. I didn't feel it but some of my friends did.

[@StephenGnos]

Felt it here in Millerton!

[@lynnlombardo7112]

Felt that..heardthat Rumbling, shaking in Croton on Hudson NY.. Westchester County!!!

[@dboiiw0nd3rr25]

Im in queens and my house was rocking like a boat

[@imbwildrd3693]

Felt minor shaking in Cheshire, Connecticut this morning

[@javiruiz8365]

Omg I knew I wasn’t crazy! I felt it in Brooklyn!!!

[@mingfanzhang8927]

I’m in Brooklyn too but I didn’t even feel it

[@JetsetterJournals]

I was in Medellin, Colombia for the last 4 months and we had 3 earthquakes while I was there. I came back to US and my friends in Taiwan and NY/NJ have Earthquakes. Be careful.

[@tvenice7317]

Why this is so crazy is because we have not had a earthquake for about 12 years and it came out of nowhere

[@Raptorman0909]

4.8 is nothing to sneeze at, not big enough to do any significant damage but large enough to knock stuff from shelves and tip things over. I would not be surprised if the total damage from just those kinds of events is in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

[@laffeydude3558]

It was so big the cross in my bedroom almost fell! 😨😨😨😱😱😱

[@zupo7217]

Noooo

[@Punisher6791]

i live in washington state, i cant even remember the last time there even was a major earthquake. hardly ever happens here.

[@AdriR89]

Yup, it felt like an incoming train was about to collide into my building over in Midtown

[@Islandgirl2133]

Rough week for Jersey!

[@carolynlyfordsullivan1377]

People in Maine felt it .

[@TheAlchemist1089]

Felt this in Harrison 😢

[@liatris69]

Lester seems rattled but a 4.7 here in CA is a non event.

[@ej12349]

Well, they aren't used to 4.8 magnitude earthquakes. They are used to 1.5 or below. And only about 500 have been recorded since the 1700's.

[@shondrawhite9317]

But it's not California. Main character syndrome. California always chimes in. East Coast.. West Coast... Different ball parks. Different geological reactions.

[@AliceinSilverland]

Californians are laughing. When I briefly lived in California I laughed at them at how they reacted to hail (calling it "snow" on the news), and how slow they drove in a little rain, because I'm from Oregon.

[@shondrawhite9317]

​@@ej12349thank you... California has main character syndrome when it comes to earthquakes.. have a great day My friend...

[@bolasblancas420]

California has more experience on those matters… and huge fires.

[@bstaznkid4lyfe392]

Stay safe y'all..