Earthquake in Philadelphia area? - Page 6

bikerbabe · ‎03-09-2010

I suspect the comments from Californians are due to the often snarky comments we get about why would we live here with earthquakes.

I appreciate it’s less common in the NE. 💕

(Fellow Southern CA who has been through some 7’s)

THEY CallMe Mr Wilkes · ‎06-29-2016

This event is so unusual for this region that it's absolutely reasonable for folks to have heightened concerns. A quake of this magnitude is very, very rare in NJ and NY.

I was in the kitchen and glasses and dishes shook, and I assumed it was major demolition activity above, but it went on so long.

Skyegirl21 · ‎03-20-2010

Some felt it all the way here, in Southern CT (but not me)!

Shelbelle · ‎03-09-2010

My son is in a high rise apt bldg in downtown Philly, said he felt the bldg shake.

lgfan · ‎10-19-2012

@bikerbabe wrote:
I suspect the comments from Californians are due to the often snarky comments we get about why would we live here with earthquakes.

I appreciate it’s less common in the NE. 💕

(Fellow Southern CA who has been through some 7’s)

I agree with you. It amazes me that people who live in places that have tornados and hurricanes would never dare live in California because of earthquakes.

threecees · ‎09-22-2017

I am in PA and felt nothing. Glad too.

Natureluvr · ‎06-14-2018

It’s definitely an unsettling feeling to experience an earthquake! Especially if you’re not used to them. I lived in California for a couple years in the early 90s and had never felt one up until that point. It shook the whole condo I was in and I was terrified. Talking to the locals, they commented that that was nothing, only a 3.5. I just shook my head because I thought well maybe it’s no big thing to you but for me it is!

Othereeeen · ‎03-13-2010

My friend in the Tri State area (NY/NJ/PA intersection) said he had just hand washed four little long stemmed wine glasses and two fell over on the paper towel he had them drying on....and, he said his cat was slinking along on it's belly with huge black pupils (fear)...!!!

He thought a large truck was outside his house.....

About 70 miles from NYC.

I wonder how soon the nutty conspiraciy theorists will be blaming it on the coming eclipse?!?!?

I live in Western PA near Lake Erie and if I hear the word "eclipse" one more time I'm going to lose my mind!!!

It's ALL they talk about....and now they're trying to drum up fear of shopping and gasoline shortages ( the gas tank trucks won't get thru due to traffic!!! AGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!)

I did my normal grocery shopping today...Walmart and Sheetz were empty to normal early this morning....

manny2 · ‎05-24-2010

@CelticCrafter wrote:
@Love to Run wrote:
@patbz wrote:
I'm surprised that those affected are in some cases being so dramatic. I grew up in MD and didn't feel my first quake until I was in my late 20s in a high rise in Taipei, Taiwan ( the bdlg swayed; as expected and my friends and I were literally shaken but that was it) and my second was in a high rise in Mainz Germany. Then I lived in CA for 25 years in" the earthquake capitol of CA"; Ridgecrest. There were a few that made us head for the doorways or outside ( learned about anchoring cabinets and also Quake Wax but never any damage). Ten years after I moved to AZ Ridgecrest had 2 back to back quakes over 4 th of July weekend :6.9/7.1 which caused billions of structural damage and thousands of aftershocks, some bigger than N.J. quake! Even in those quakes nobody died or was hurt. Except for the 7 point plus ones I'd rather an earthquake than a forest fire, hurricane or tornado.
@patbz I'm with you😂I was born and raised in CA and was attending UC Berkeley in 1989 when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit. It was a 6.9 magnitude. Part of the Bay Bridge Collapsed and 42 people perished when the Cypress Freeway in Oakland pancaked. We were in class and no one was injured, so I couldn't believe that out of state students actually refused to return to school and transferred to local colleges.
@Love to Run & @patbz Just because you two may have experienced this and may be prepared for it and may be used to it doesn't mean everyone in the area of this one is.