4.8 earthquake

[Majer]

Interesting morning. Had a 4.8 earthquake here this morning, 2nd one I've felt in about 33 years.I'm sure it will be on all the news stations. Every one is fine, felt like a heavy truck going over a bunch of potholes. Y'all have an uneventful day.

[Marshal Halloway]

Glad you're safe.

[Jim Kennedy-ar154me]

Also glad you and yours are safe.

It really rattled some windows in N.J.

[alfsauve]

Glad you’re okay.  Didn’t really hit local noon news.  I mean unless you got buildings tilted at 30 degrees, like Taiwan, it hardly qualifies.

[Majer]

Thanks Y'all, had a 4.0 aftershock late afternoon/early evening.

[Sponsor]

[MikeBjerum]

Feel for you with the jelly for earthquakes.  I did eight years in southern California and endured two quakes in the 70s. The first was stronger than the second, but the second caused more damage, due to the unseen or detected fatigue caused by the first. A third hit after I had fled. It was even weaker but more deadly and destructive.

Until you have lived in the Midwest, with its severe thunderstorms, and in California, with its quakes, you will not understand why I say I prefer tornadoes to earthquakes. At least you can see a storm and take protective measures. When the earth moves and undulates like water there is no place to hide.

[Timothy]

Felt here in central MA, as well.

Minor compared to the few CA quakes I experienced in the 70’s.

[Big Frank]

Yesterday, I think it was at 1 p.m., I heard a air raid siren, but we weren't being attacked.The city tests the tornado warning system on the first Saturday of each month of tornado season, which I think is something like 9 or 10 months out of the year. I never felt the couple of earthquakes people say we had here. I think most people who were around slept through one at night and barely felt one during the day.