EarthCam captured the moment a 4.8-magnitude earthquake recorded in New Jersey shook residents in surrounding states and New York City on Friday morning. The earthquake was the strongest in NJ since 1884.
This was something very interesting. As this happened, I was sitting on my couch and I thought a large vehicle was passing by my house, but then I realized a couple seconds later, it was an earthquake. What a historical moment for NY & NJ.
This was the first time I have experienced anything like that, I felt exactly the same way. My whole apartment building was moving and I almost thought it was vertigo. I thought something was wrong with the building, grabbed my emergency bag and ran out. That was about the limit of my control.
@howardroark3947: I agree, Howard. I’m in NYC and my apartment really shook for a few seconds. It was very unnerving. When I had the time to review the situation, it was the “not in control” feeling that I didn’t like either.
Living in Jersey City and I felt that shit, honestly thought it was some big ass truck driving or a construction explosion happened but never would have thought a earthquake. So rare to experience that in my life
Same here in Morris County. At first I thought is was the garbage truck but then it got too intense. I always see animals in my backyard and they were all gone.
Working in a warehouse I also thought it was a huge truck. Til I realize its shaking way too much for that. I just felt a little shaking a few minutes ago thinking it was a truck and now I'm wondering if its after shock.
I’m from New York and as a New Yorker I’ve never experienced an earthquake until now and thinking about how places like California, turkey, Japan and more will say that a 4.8 isn’t crazy.
The way the camera was shaking at 1:01 , that’s what I slightly felt in Plattsburgh, New York..which is over 300 miles north of NYC. About 2 hours later, I think I felt an aftershock. Two loud explosion-like bangs and a little shake. Crazy stuff!!!
I'm in Atlantic County, NJ. I remember the last one, which was centered in Virginia. I was at a friend's house about 45 minutes NW of here. I heard a rumble and then her chandelier started swaying. With this one I didn't hear any kind of rumble or anything, but the house shook for just a few seconds. At the same time I heard the mirror that's attached to my dresser shaking, and saw my desk lamp shaking. That's it. They say there was an aftershock, but I didn't feel it.
I was working from home, Bronx, University Heights, when around 10:20am my computer got disconnected then seconds after alot of shaking. I could feel the vibration of the walls, like a rumbling sound. I live on the last floor and the ceiling felt like there was alot of people on the roof running and stomping, leaving like echo in my ears, I didnt know what it could be, I honestly thought the bldg was collapsing. I couldnt contact anybody, no texts, or even calls were going through. It was ver scary.
That's not true, a bigger one hit jersey 7 years ago And 1938 the same size started in New Jersey And I remember one like 20 years ago that felt the same but might not have been the same number wise
I felt that in Ewing NJ while sitting in the cafeteria at my workplace. I immediately got up and started looking at the ceiling it was super weird feeling and I felt like the earthquake vibrations went through the building and through my body. Enormous power .
The noise was so loud I thought a truck hit the house but it kept shaking. Later had an aftershock, my closet door was rattling, a bottle of vitamins fell off the shelf and a grocery bag toppled. It was scary, realizing there's something that strong you can't control. I've experienced smaller quakes in California and before in NJ. This one was the strongest. Kind of like the tremor after a house exploded in a neighboring town.
@@LuisAlbertoPerezNajera-xz1hl He didn't say anything dramatic, but if you experienced something for the first time, are you going to act like a macho tough guy as well? Clown
4.8 is a big deal on the east coast because it DOES have the potential to cause damage, theres nowhere for the quake to scatter like west coast...making it feel worse. Many of the building codes are Not enforced for quakes, plus tons of old buildings here. Anything near 5 is getting sketchy, since we dont get them, there was fear it could Keep growing.
Largest one in the area in 250 years. And because of the 'old rock' it goes through, it's felt for hundreds of miles, felt by many millions of people. An earthquake of the same magnitude in CA would only be felt within 15 miles of epicenter.
im 10 but honestly this was my first ever earthquake experience. the whole building i live in was shaking as if 40 people were running on the roof because i live on the top floor i just felt a aftershock while playing on my laptop praying that it dont get worse
They are doing work outside my building and I first thought it was construction, then I realized…. Scared the hell out of me because in I’m an apartment….
I didn’t really feel the 2012 one but I’m laying in bed in a hospital and felt and watched the curtains sway and my tray table bounce. Yeah. It’s kind of jarring if you’re not used to that feeling.
Yesh, this definitely caught me off guard. I thought it was a truck going by at first. But then the rattling got heavier and lasted for about thirty seconds. Pretty decent size for this area. I live in Camden Co. NJ by the way.
@@RedVandal626 Red heifers were always sacrificed for cleansing if a person had been around a dead body in order for a person to be cleansed to enter into Passover. This is not an unusual practice in scripture. It literally happened before every single Passover. Please read the Bible. It sounds like you are picking up false doctrines from false teachers. You did not get that statement from the actual Bible.
I live up by Albany, Ny on the 3rd floor of an old house and it was shaking for about 10-20 sec. I also live near a river, so I wonder if it’s some kind of fault line that made it shake more, or if it was just felt everywhere in the northeast
That literally made my jaw drop. For me to experience the tremors of an earthquake in nyc caught me by surprise. Like what was that ? 🥺🥺. A day after the earthquake I’m still in shock and traumatized
We had a 4.xx here in Southern Sweden back in 2008 I believe, in the middle of the night. Woke a lot of people up (including my dad, and we're over 100 km away), and some buildings closer to the epicenter got damaged enough to require repairs. Here, that's a major earthquake. In California or Japan or Indonesia, they probably call it a "Tuesday" (or whatever it was).
I thought I was going insane, at first I heard it and didn't think anything of it until I started to feel the house shake,, the TV started shaking a bit and then I went to check out the window to see if anything else was shaking. I called my dad to see if he was feeling it too but he was on the subway, so he couldn't tell. I was kind of scared after that though because I never thought I would experience something like this.
I was in bed using my laptop when I felt the bed shaking, there was construction or something going in on in the apartment above me that morning. I was worried the ceiling was gonna fall on me 😭
I’m on the UWS and neither I nor my son - nor anyone I talked to, felt or knew anything about it, until we saw the breaking news on the Weather Channel. We were like, “What the?”. I don’t know whether to be glad or disappointed.
As a guy who lives in the UK and has only ever felt one earthquake in his entire 36 years of life, I've found out two things...New York can experience earthquakes, and i now know the states where people over there in the US are the nicest and most polite
I woke up 5 minutes before and was just laying in bed. I felt a rumble and my walls started swaying left and right, my first thought was "Wtf is my roommate doing?" Needless to say, first earthquake in my 25 years. Can't imagine how they are in Cali!
Just as the quake started, a bus passed by my house and I thought that's strange, busses pass all day, and the house doesn't shake. Then I heard dishes and knock knacks rattle, and the floor was shaking like a flag in the wind. I knew immediately it was an earthquake, and about six or seven seconds later it was over. I had the radio on at the time. No reports of an earthquake. So I got a little concerned and thought maybe it was just my house, unstable and about to collapse. Took fourteen minutes before the temblor was reported. Well, I felt, at least it wasn't my house.
I was in school when this happened the teacher suddenly said to shush and we listened as some of my classmates literally for some reason thought that the roof was gonna fall on us.Then the principle had as mal speech on the speakers to tell us that it was gonna be fine and it was just a small earthquake. Our whole class literally had a talk about it afterwards. It was really unexpected.
I have never been in an earthquake before. I just noticed our building was shaking and thought maybe there was something wrong with the building. It took about a second or two and I had my emergency bag and cell phone and ran down the stairs. I got out just about when it was ending. I didn’t know for about a minute what happened until my gf texted me. It wasn’ that bad but I am still kind of surprised my neighbors all sat around waiting and wondering what it was instead of getting to a safe place.
@@user-xm1et7cz2o To be honest, at first I thought I was having a stroke. I’d never been in an earthquake. I didn’t know it was an earthquake, I thought something was happening to the building. My GF informed me later I made the wrong moves. Historically doing and not thinking (or at least not taking much time to think) has kept me alive. It was incredibly awkward when I opened the apartment front door and met a UPS delivery man casually entering as if he hadn’t noticed.
@@madmouthmarv5098 I hope I didn't come across as criticizing what you did. Only informing you for possible future experiences. The first time/s I experienced earthquakes in Chile I was terrified. If I hadn't been told not to go out on street (Valparaíso has tons of electric lines running all over between the buildings, and plenty that could fall from facades) I possibly would have. That's what I've found most unnerving about earthquakes, there's nowhere to run.
I've lived in Michigan's lower peninsula for the better part of 55 years, and have slept through three minor earthquakes that everybody else that I knew felt them. I work nights so I had to sleep during the day, and this is when all three of them had occurred during the daytime.
Yup. I tell my relatives to stay prayed up. Im bedridden. Told my husband if stronger quake hits and house is going take our dog and he and his brother evacuate and leave me here. Im in terrible pain now anyway.
I live in Sunset Park and the BQE is at the bottom of my block, at first I though a big truck was going by but then realized it was shaking too long for that, THEN the shaking got really fast and strong. Scared the crap out of me but moments later.....all done
These was terrifying for me.I am a young student who has never expierence an earthquake.I thought it was just me for a second but then I realized it was a earthquake, once in a lifetime oppertunity
I was at school at the time. I live 1 hour from NYC and my classmates didn’t know there was an earthquake occurring but our moms were literally spam texting us saying are we ok? are we safe? luckily no one was hurf
Was in school and we felt the ground shaking (NY) we all went dead silent and started freaking out and then we were put on lockdown for a minute or 2. After that we went to gym and when we were about to start dodgeball all of our phones went off and it kinda hurt my ears. We rushed to our phones to check what happened and we were shocked. Our teacher said its fine and we just locked the gym doors untill further announcements. Then as were playing it goes off again which of course hurt my ears and we turned it off. Then during our MTSS class we got it AGAIN this time it explaining about aftershocks. Me and my friend talked about it afterwards and i went home early because i was shooken and crying.
I know the torch has been closed to the public since 1916, but imagine what it would have been like to have been out on the torch balcony-or, even worse, to have been on the ladder to or from the torch-when that happened.
That was a scary experience. It was going on for what felt like a full minute. All the time, I was just hoping it wouldn't turn into the ones that hit Haiti, Japan, Nepal, or Taiwan. That's the most scary part, I think, the dread. As soon as that thing was over, I ran out of the building. That was the fastest I ever ran. Edit: Just as I'm writing this, another small one just happened. Damn, there's no sleeping tonight.
I was in class while it happened I also had thought it was a construction accident since the floor was shaking heavily during class 😅 the teacher asked us to move to the left of the room just in case the floor fell or something... but everything was alright i checked online turned out to be a 4.7 magnitude earthquake ... man as i kid i loved natural disasters and all of those things but when your actual going through it. Its Scarier
The tectonic plates are all connected so if one shifts causing an earthquake another will shift in a different area. There are several fault lines in the tri- state area.
@@debbiewidger1393Indian Point nuclear plant was built 100 miles from major fault. If Cuomo didn't close it and another major quake hit we'd be toast. Don't know if closed power plant would still be a danger.
Anybody remember the Oct 2001 quake that was on a fault line in Manhattan through the East River? Sounded like an explosion. I don't think we have had a notable one originate in nyc since then. The timing of it was a month after 9-11. It was nightime. People were drunk. The atmosphere was charged. Nobody knew what happened. Everyone ran out into the street. Rumors were flying. Fists were flying.I saw one of my neighbors beat another one in the head against a firetruck with a telephone he had ripped off the wall. Yep.
I thought it was my mom and brother moving stuff but it went for a while and so i was like "are we having an earthquake?!" And my friend on a call with me at the time said he felt it too.
I’ve heard when they aren’t real bad you don’t even feel them when you are walking. I unfortunately was sitting on my couch and my whole building shook. Kinda freaky when you don’t know what’s happening or if and when it will stop. I only knew it was an earthquake when my gf texted me
I was in the washroom when the earthquake happened then a huge mirror fell over the floor and broke into pieces I was more terrified by the loud sound it made than the actual earthquake 😱😱😱 I was like "wtf just happened " after came out the washroom very rare to experience it here and that spine chilling feeling 😱
My dog alerted me before it happened. He was barking and acting strange then I felt my desk and lamps in my living room shake. I thought a plane was flying too low and it was rattling the house.
