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[twinsister]

Felt it in Long Island.  First heard a rumbling, the floors and the house were shaking.

Scary even if it was brief.

[CelticCrafter]

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@Othereeeen wrote:

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....

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@Othereeeen they've already started on one of the FB groups I belong to!  

[Ronettes]

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@newjerseygirl wrote:

I was in Kohl's on Rt. 18.  It felt like a jet plane was landing in the parking lot.  It was really weird.  The store was pretty empty that early.   

When I got home (Sayreville)  a picture frame had fallen off a shelf and the glass was broken.  No other damage that I coud see. 

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Yes, weird is the word -

And as you say, us 'Jersey Girls don't pump gas', Lol!

[paixmcdao]

4.6 in Massachusetts, which is the strongest in 22 years.

[nova]

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@ciao_bella wrote:

Central, coasal NJ (Middlsex County) and the kitchen cabinet doors were shaking, a few things in my pantry fell off the shelves and my 2 cats ran in the house as the floor was shaking.  We are on a natuarl earthquake fault line as  "Cheesequake" State Park is located only a stone's throw from our area.   

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  @ciao_bella   I'm on the borderline between Middlesex & Monmouth County & felt exact same thing.  Whole house shook like it was hit by a massive truck & my dog got very nervous.  I did not feel the 2.0 aftershock around 12:30.  Both my kids live closer to the original epicenter - so frightening.  One of my sons is working in Manhattan now & there will be a massive delay on all NJ Transit because the bridges & tunnels have to be checked out.  What a day.

[songbird]

Felt something here at work.  Little tremor.  I didn't know about this.  Maryalnd had a substantial one in 2015.  That one shook the whole 8 story building is was in. According to CNN, it was centered in New Jersey.  

[CelticCrafter]

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@nova wrote:

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@ciao_bella wrote:

Central, coasal NJ (Middlsex County) and the kitchen cabinet doors were shaking, a few things in my pantry fell off the shelves and my 2 cats ran in the house as the floor was shaking.  We are on a natuarl earthquake fault line as  "Cheesequake" State Park is located only a stone's throw from our area.   

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  @ciao_bella   I'm on the borderline between Middlesex & Monmouth County & felt exact same thing.  Whole house shook like it was hit by a massive truck & my dog got very nervous.  I did not feel the 2.0 aftershock around 12:30.  Both my kids live closer to the original epicenter - so frightening.  One of my sons is working in Manhattan now & there will be a massive delay on all NJ Transit because the bridges & tunnels have to be checked out.  What a day.

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@nova Me too!  We live in Middlesex but out mailing address is a Monmouth post office.

[jlkz]

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@CelticCrafter wrote:

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@Love to Run wrote:

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@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.

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@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.

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@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.

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@CelticCrafter 

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[katie1859]

4.8 in NYC and Jersey.

This is called The Passive Aggressive Margin because the Atlantic area does not have quakes. Quite uncommon.

[chlema]

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@Natureluvr wrote:
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.

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Strange is it not?  I'm near Stanton, Delaware and we did not feel a thing, but surrounding developments did.  With all the rain we've had I think perhaps my house may just be floating on water and therefore nicely cushioned lol.