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Earthquake in Philadelphia area?

PhilaLady1 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:37:04 GMT

Anybody feel it? I am in Havertown, Delaware county, a few miles outside of Philadelphia. It was felt here about 10:25am eastern.

edited to add, just said on the news, it was 4.8.

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just bee — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:35:24 GMT

This showed up online...

Magnitude 4.8 earthquake

1 mile from Tewksbury, NJ · 8:23 AM

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CelticCrafter — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:36:01 GMT

Central NJ, on the border of Middlesex and Monmouth County.

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Trinity11 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:37:04 GMT

4.8 magnitude. ABC NEWS. Long Island, I felt my chair shake and the walls and floor. It was a strong tremor. Centered in Lebanon, New Jersey.

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Caffeina — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 16:21:33 GMT

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reiki604 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:37:56 GMT

We felt it here in NYC!!!!! My whole house shook!

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Carmie — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:38:53 GMT

No, I am in PA but about 1.5 hours from you.

I know we have earthquakes in PA because I felt one before. I thought a car hit our house because it shook, but strangely, I didn't hear a crash.

My dog got weirded out, so I know it wasn't my imagination. I called my husband who was two hours north of me and he said he felt it too.

The grocery stores had stuff flying off of the shelves. I would have never guessed that PA had earthquakes, but from time to time we do....thankfully, not the ones nightmares are made from.

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meallen616 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:40:59 GMT

In Jersey, my whole house shook and it was moving the chair I was sitting on!

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on the bay — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:41:35 GMT

Wow @PhilaLady1 that's big!

Very scary. Are you and your place ok?

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PhilaLady1 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:43:34 GMT

@on the bay wrote:
Wow @PhilaLady1 that's big!
Very scary. Are you and your place ok?

@on the bay

Thanks so much for your concern. I am okay!

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Winkk — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:44:26 GMT

Yes. I'm in Plymouth Meeting, PA and I could feel it.

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Stray — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:45:57 GMT

@PhilaLady1 wrote:
Anybody feel it? I am in Havertown, Delaware county, a few miles outside of Philadelphia. It was felt here about 10:25am eastern.

edited to add, just said on the news, it was 4.8.

@PhilaLady1 - I felt it in NNJ. It occurred in Lebanon NJ but felt as far as Mass. & upstate NY & DC. I remembered the last NJ quake & knew right away. My husband didn't feel it in the next room. Initially, I thought our building was coming down due to construction on the property. In Newark airport they heard a loud explosion like noise

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manny2 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:46:19 GMT

It was a rolling feeling that got stronger and stronger. Very scary my chair was moving.

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VanSleepy — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:46:32 GMT

I was awakened by my bed shaking and things on my dresser rattling. I thought I was dreaming.

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gardenman — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:48:43 GMT

I'm in the "felt nothing" part of NJ (Salem County) and felt nothing. Which is nice. We have a fault nearby (Mannington Meadows) that tends to give the "bang" earthquakes where everyone thinks something exploded. The only "shaking" earthquake I've felt here was the big one that affected the Washington, DC region a few years back.

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I am still oxox — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:49:29 GMT

Westchester County NY I was sitting here watching my plants shake.

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Trinity11 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:51:33 GMT

@reiki604 wrote:
We felt it here in NYC!!!!! My whole house shook!

I thought a plane was about to hit the house as we live near an airport with sometimes low flying planes.

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Somertime — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:53:34 GMT

friends in Conneticut felt it!

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amyb — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:59:10 GMT

Yes! I'm in Southern Ct along the shoreline, and my condo started low rumbling and then visibly shaking, like I've never felt. At first I didn't know what was happening, as they had been doing landscaping work outside, (like did they drive one of the trucks into the building?!) but then it felt like something was on the roof, shaking from top down. By the time I realized what it probably was, by then it was over. Maybe 20-30 seconds. Weird, freaky feeling!

Only once before has that happened but that was much more subtle and smaller on the rhicter scale.

4.7 they said this was, (downgraded from 4.8, say some reports) with the center in (Tewksbury) Lebanon, NJ., depending on reports...

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Scooty — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:54:29 GMT

We felt it on Long Island. So scary. I also thought it was a plane.