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[Stray]

The Ramapo fault line is quite long but shallow.  The closer to the surface, one would feel the quake more even if a slight tremor.   But, 4.7-4.8 is high for the region & there may be after shocks. 

[proudlyfromNJ]

Felt it in Rockland County NY.

[amyb]

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@manny2 wrote:

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

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@manny2 Yes! Exactly, same here. So weird...my mind couldn't catch up to what was going on at first..

[catter70]

I'm in the Lehigh Valley of Pa. and yes, we got it here. Makes me nervous waiting for aftershocks. The last one I remember having here was about 12 years ago.

[Sooner]

I am thankful nobody was hurt badly.  Was it a roller or a shaker?  We had a roller go on for more than half a minute a few years ago in Oklahoma near where I live.

It was like being in a boat--after about 20 seconds we got dizzy and everyone just ran out into the yard.  It was  5.6 I think.  But it seemed to go on forever and it started with that plane crash roar too!

Earthquake waves are like sound waver, so you can hear them like that sometimes.  I'm told! 

[Natureluvr]

Yes! I’m in Northern Delaware, and felt the house vibrating slightly and heard a rumbling sound, and immediately got nervous because it felt like what I experienced when in an earthquake out in California. My heart was racing But after it stopped, I saw on the news that even though it happened two hours from us many people felt it here. What’s strange is my sister lives five minutes away and she felt nothing and my daughter lives 45 minutes away and she felt it.

[haddon9]

Yes I felt it!  The bedroom was shaking along with the windows & mirror....what was that?  I realized it was an earthquake.  DH came running upstairs asking me what that was.

DS who is in Princeton felt it too.  My next door neighbor was on the phone with someone in Abington, PA and they felt it.

It was a 4.8 earthquake near Lebanon/Tweksbury, NJ.  My brother & sister in law live there but I have not heard from them after texting with her.

ETA: I am concerned because it is a small town area and that is literally their mailing address!

ETA:  I just heard from my sister in aw and they are all okay...I was worried since they are right near the epicenter of it.

[KBEANS]

NYC here, and I just stepped out of my elevator and returned to my apartment

I was yapping to my husband and he said Oh snap the building is shaking. I looked at our artificial tree and saw it moving...then I got 🥴 dizzy. 😵‍💫 

Hope everyone is ok 🥰 

[ALRATIBA]

I'm in Manhattan .... on the 10 floor of a high-rise building.

I was sitting here at my computer and all of a sudden the floor started to "roll."  We've had tremors here before - so I figured there was an earthquake somewhere nearby.

One of my neighbors told me he heard the  earthquake was in NJ and that tremors were felt as far as Brooklyn and Queens.

[roeroe1005]

I'm in Lewes, Delaware, and felt it.  Thought it was just me getting a whacked dizzy spell.  My first thought was that it was an earthquake, but did not think it happened here.

My family in Westchester County, NY, felt it too.