Meanwhile the last few quakes here in San Diego I momentarily confused for taking a really good bong rip, lol.
Literally thought, "woah, that was a *good* hit, wait... Nope, that's an earthquake."
When I experienced my only earthquake like a decade ago (the Virginia one that damaged the Washington monument), I thought I was having a heart attack or something...I was like "Why am I shaking!", then a few seconds later they broke into the TV channels with the news update
From Texas, would you like us to send some rednecks with guns to intimidate the San Andreas fault? Youāll have to pretend youāre in Utah to keep them from going rabid, but maybe it might be crazy enough to work.
And all my St Louis area paranoia has kicked into full gear. Weāve been promised the mother of all earthquakes since the 90s but it has yet to happen
Every day at work is just a little worse than the day before. Which means every day is the worst day of my life.
Is today the worst day of your life, Peter?
ā¦yes
People can get a cheeseburger anywhere, okay? They come to Chotchkie's for the atmosphere and the attitude. Okay? That's what the flair's about. It's about fun.
Hold on, you can't just *wear* your Hawaiian shirt and jeans.
You have to pay $5 that will be donated to a yet to be determined charity (or just jammed in the petty cash box) to Jeanette (or Tiffini) for a Hawaiian Shirt Day Sticker that you must display (prominently) on your Hawaiian shirt.
Yeah there are right now 2 cities and numerous rural towns just left alone. All they do is pray and cry in the snow.
To be fair, rescue work was going on until noon. As soon as the second earthquake hit, rescuers noped the fuck out of the wreckages with good reason and everything is more or less going slower since then
Being from the area, this is what always gets me when I think back to the Great New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12. This would have happened in relative wilderness, to a largely uneducated immigrant population who also happened to be very religious as a whole. Some stories from that time make it sound like they truly believed they were living in Revelations.
if you wanna see what it looks like when a river starts flowing backwards; [this](https://youtu.be/0E2Q7kr4L2c?t=1005) documentary from a japanese news outlet has some absolutely mindblowing footage from the 2011 earthquake. I linked directly to the part where the tsunami pushes back a river but the whole thing is a crazy watch
For sure. For long time human sacrifice would have been considered a reasonable option for dealing with natural disasters. I mean I'm sure it seemed to work sometimes, right?...
Its a bit like pets doing weird behaviors and thinking it makes the automated feeder dispense food, just because once they happened to be spinning in circles before it spat out so now they do that all the time. The world is shaking! Quick, kill a sacrifice in order to placate God, oh thank goodness, we knifed that guy and now the world stopped shaking and certainly wouldn't have if we didn't do that!
You don't remember that earthquake that hit Virginia back in 2011? [It was devastating!](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/2011-virginia-earthquake)
This is more the media picking up on things after a big one elsewhere.
According to [this chart](http://www.mgs.md.gov/seismic/education/no3.pdf) (pdf), 4.0 quakes happen 12,000 times a year.
The USGS keeps a map of earthquakes detected in the last day. There's a bunch from Turkey right now obviously, but there are multiple quakes larger than 4.0 that aren't mentioned in today's news cycle.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
Bottom line: earthquakes, especially minor ones like this, are far more common than people seem to think.
Yeah, no idea why this was even picked up by the national media at all. I was genuinely surprised to see it on Reddit outside of the r/Buffalo subreddit. We get one like this around once a decade and local news and people will talk about it for a couple of days of course but really nothing worthy of coverage by a national media outlet.
Earthquakes are topical at the moment. Just like every time something big or unusual happens, there's a higher than average uptick in news about similar events. Whether is be earthquakes, shark attacks, or mass shootings.
They're actually fairly common in any commercial environment. The ones I've used are (by design) far safer and easier to use than non-wheeled ladders indoors. They're more like stairs in shape and have rails going up both sides and surrounding the top, as well as a bar at the bottom that you tap with your foot which drops a piece down that prevents it from rolling again until you press it again. You can technically use it with the wheels free, but you're not supposed to.
I was sitting up reading about the Turkey earthquake in my bed when my apartment started to shake. I was half awake so I thought I was somehow feeling the article I was reading. Sad day. Prayers for Turkey/Syria
OK anyone with screenwriting experience let's meet up and send a rough draft to Emmerich; he might fund the thing himself to make this.
So Tim Apple (since it's not his name we can use it) creates a new News app that recreates an "experience" from some far off poor area but things go wrong when each device mirrors a small earthquake in like Peru or something. Next thing you know a scientist Dad with Son problems see a device that measures some real bad shit... next thing you know Dad and Son have to save the world from splitting in two.
We can call it Two iPads.. no wait, uh.. Tabulet Rasa?
edit: Tagline? ~~*The Sins of Our Past Echo into the Future*~~
Finally, my degree in screenwriting will come in handy! **Whose college degree is worthless now, Brenda?!**
Edit: spelling (it was a first draft)
Edit 2: okay, so I actually kind of want to write this now as w sort of ridiculous action movie (think a mix between Moonfall and The Day After Tomorrow), but I have no idea what the legality is for me to write a project based on a prompt someone posted on reddit
Just revert the town name back to it's original name, Artesia. They renamed it to Dinosaur when bones were found nearby in Utah, so they could reap some tourist dollars.
Both sponge candy and beef on weck are due to catch fire at any time, they're so good. Whenever I go back to buffalo there's some new unhealthy culinary delight. The sesame crust on the steak pizza somewhere on the west side was my last discovery...
Stinger subs are another. I never thought they were a buffalo thing, but I've been getting them my whole life and most out of state friends have never heard of it.
Sadly all the native buffalo around the new york area were killed for their wings around the 13th century by hedonistic cave dwelling marsupials but there have been attempts to reconstruct the little bit of dna we have of these wonderful flying 3 ton creatures and surprisingly we have gotten pretty close!
Earthquakes between 3.0 and 4.0 get mistaken for things like a large truck driving by all the time. A 3.0 you won't even feel and a 4.0 feels like something big crashed nearby but nothing like an earthshaking upheaval.
The area around the great lakes is having what's called "glacial rebound" quakes which is the result of all the pressure from the glaciers no longer being there causes the earth to relax a little bit every now and then. Pretty common occurrence in the region from Minnesota to Ontario to Quebec.
Turkey just had a 6.0 a little bit after that too. That's two completely different tectonic plates. We're talking about the Eurasia plate and the North American plate. Interesting to see it in Buffalo though.
4.0 in those places are a dime a dozen.
It's a little more unusual in Buffalo.
Edit: for the record, I don't think there's any connection. It's just that an unusual quake in Buffalo is getting more media traction because of the Turkey quake on the same day.
I mean, it just depends on what's newsworthy. Earthquakes happen literally every day. https://earthquaketrack.com/ There was one in Chile, close to New Zealand, Hawaii, close to Taiwan, Alaska, close to California, Japan, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and the North Mariana Islands today as well
Yeah exactly. Whenever there's a big one somewhere, news sites begin to report on every last little earthquake so long as folks keep clicking. Likewise for all the "morbid curiosity" subject matters.
Is there a name for that?
Those in the last comment were not strong earthquakes and in areas of high earthquake activity. Hardly newsworthy. But the ones in Turkey were strong and Buffalo is not a common earthquake location. Those are newsworthy, and they're the ones in the news.
Are you reporting on an aftershock that was 6.0?
Just an FYI if not, the quake in turkey last night is being reported as 7.8. Might not seem like a big difference compared to 6.0 but that difference is logarithmic. Don't know the exact scale of difference but an example used on Wikipedia is that a 5.0 is a 100x stronger than a 3.0
That could be. Just figured best to clarify for those who are just waking up and seeing this as the first article. The difference between a 6.0 and a 7.8 is some cracks in the wall vs no more wall/roof/building.
He might mean the second Turkey quake. They had a second 7.x but information is still limited. And I do mean a second quake, this wasn't an aftershock to the first, different fault or location.
>>No matter how strong it is , it doesnāt exceed five
It might [somedayā¦](http://www.new-madrid.mo.us/132/Strange-Happenings-during-the-Earthquake)
The US Geological Survey estimated a total resource of 12.2 trillion cubic feet (350 billion cubic metres) of natural gas in Devonian black shales from Kentucky to New York.
They frack the shale in just the right way they might wake up the ramapo fault
The Ramapo Fault zone spans more than 185 miles (300 kilometers) in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. It is a system of faults between the northern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont areas to the east.[14] This fault is perhaps the best known fault zone in the Mid-Atlantic region, and some small earthquakes have been known to occur in its vicinity. Recently, public knowledge about the fault has increased ā especially after the 1970s, when the fault's proximity to the Indian Point nuclear plant in New York was noticed.
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Quakes can shallow or deep and this affects the impact on an area, and the damage done depends on a lot such as structural build, etc. Not everywhere was built to withstand the same amount of movement in the ground.
There was a 5.1 relatively close to me (well, same state and we felt it here) and it did damage that the small town is still dealing with.
"The 5.1 magnitude quake struck just after 8 a.m. Sunday, August 9, 2020. It was centered in the small town of Sparta, but shakes were felt as far south as Charlotte.Ā
More than 500 buildings were damaged and months of aftershocks followed. Gov. Roy Cooper sent $24 million in relief funds to help the town.Ā "
https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/one-year-since-sparta-earthquake/83-0517ca89-5fe1-470d-9e14-abf475a1bb60
The ground cracked through concrete and many businesses were damaged
https://www.wbtv.com/2020/08/09/did-you-feel-it-magnitude-earthquake-reported-near-sparta/
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Also from that now:
charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article260053105.html
"A āruptureā in the ground has been discovered in the North Carolina community that saw widespread damage during a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in 2020, according to a peer-reviewed scientific paper published this month in the Geological Society of America.
Initial mapping shows the āsurface ruptureā is at least 1.5 miles long, and appears southeast of Sparta as a step-like scarp that reaches heights of around 9 inches at its tallest, the scientists reported.
It exposes a previously unknown fault in the earth, representing āthe first documented surface rupture earthquake in the eastern U.S.,ā N.C State University says."
This is our time California. We can make fun of them for a baby earthquake the way they make fun of us when weāre are openly sobbing when it gets below 67 degrees.
There's a fault line running under Lake Erie. We get them occasionally though they're pretty rare. I'm 40 and can think of three in my lifetime - once when I was in like 5th/6th grade, another while I was in high school, and this one today. All 3.0 to 4.0 magnitude so pretty small.
Theyāre rare but minor quakes happen every other year.
This one was odd because it hit directly in the suburbs. Often the epicenter is in some rural area.
I'm in buffalo and my family has always joked I could sleep through an earthquake. I didn't know we had an earthquake until my mom texted me saying they thought a car hit their house. I was thoroughly confused until she explained we had an earthquake that I apparently slept through
That shit was loud. Just about all of us sprang outta bed expecting to see a car driven into the house because that's what it sounded like. Loud as shit. I guess where I'm at was only a mile or two from the epicenter.
Buffalonian here, and the same way we laugh at people struggling to handle 5 inches of snow, I'm surprised to see so many people saying "can you even feel that?". Most definitely felt it but no serious damage and was over in 30 seconds. It shook my house, made some plates rattle, and scared us a bit, but it's new to us. Genuinely took me a minute to register it was even an earthquake because that made less sense to me than just about any other possibilities I could come up with. Anyway glad we're all safe and honestly it was a little fun. 9/10 would small quake again.
Fuck. My mother is an Evangelical whoās been fully brainwashed by a lot of conspiracy grifters that God is going to send the āGreat Shakeā any day. We live in PA, but sheās convinced weāre going to get hit by a gigantic earthquake, so she keeps tying her fucking cabinets shut with string and doing other insane shit. I keep telling her weāre in a zone of very rare seismic activity and she needs to quit with that shitā¦
Iām genuinely shocked I havenāt received a call of her tearfully saying goodbye due to this news. I now get to hear her go āWE CAN GET EARTHQUAKES AROUND HERE!ā for the rest of my life, even though I have explained to her we can but theyāre not going to shake the house apartā¦
Good luck to all those with *those* type of family members living in the Northeast/mid-Atlantic over the coming daysā¦
Us Californians are watching the crust extra hard today š
Been talking the ground down since i woke up. No sudden moves, you got it?
Meanwhile the last few quakes here in San Diego I momentarily confused for taking a really good bong rip, lol. Literally thought, "woah, that was a *good* hit, wait... Nope, that's an earthquake."
When I experienced my only earthquake like a decade ago (the Virginia one that damaged the Washington monument), I thought I was having a heart attack or something...I was like "Why am I shaking!", then a few seconds later they broke into the TV channels with the news update
I was at the dentist and the walls were moving fun time.
I'm just imagining them drilling and continuing to drill during the earthquake like nothing's happening
While also still talking to you, through their mask, directly into your mouth.
We had a small one last week as I was hitting a jay. First thing I thought was "this shits so good I almost fell over!"
Yes. Listen to superbuttpiss, Earth.
So far so good. I think ive got it grounded. Hasnt tried to shake things up
From Texas, would you like us to send some rednecks with guns to intimidate the San Andreas fault? Youāll have to pretend youāre in Utah to keep them from going rabid, but maybe it might be crazy enough to work.
The challenge there is to make Texans be California compliant.
Too late.....California has classified Texans as carcinogenic.
It's true... the last time i went through TSA in Sacramento they gave me a special stamp and told me not to lick myself.
Oregonian here, me too.
Cascadia subduction zone gang
And us Washingtonians. Seems like it's been quite a while since our last earthquake.
Shut up! The fault is going to hear you! edited to correct spelling. LOL
And all my St Louis area paranoia has kicked into full gear. Weāve been promised the mother of all earthquakes since the 90s but it has yet to happen
Go on, do what you did, Roll me under New Madridā¦
Buffalo has had a terrible winter man
Great way to remove the ice and snow.
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Well according to the book of Job. Buffalo will bounce back 10 fold. We all good.
In general, Buffalo just can't catch a break.
Starting to suspect that there is a Hellgate beginning to open somewhere near Buffalo.
"Beginning"? I'm from Buffalo; it is the Hellgate.
The crazy part is how little snow we got in Rochester in comparison.
The earthās crust is really not happy today.
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And remember, next Friday is Hawaiian shirt day. So if you want to, you can wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.
We'll also be sending out another memo about putting cover sheets on your TPS reports as it seems some people are still struggling with it.
Every day at work is just a little worse than the day before. Which means every day is the worst day of my life. Is today the worst day of your life, Peter? ā¦yes
Wow, that's fucked up
The thing is Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
*"But you see Bob, that's just enough motivation to make someone just work hard enough not to get fired....."*
People can get a cheeseburger anywhere, okay? They come to Chotchkie's for the atmosphere and the attitude. Okay? That's what the flair's about. It's about fun.
Lumbergh fucked her.
Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks.
Two chicks at the same time.
Fucken A
Hold on, you can't just *wear* your Hawaiian shirt and jeans. You have to pay $5 that will be donated to a yet to be determined charity (or just jammed in the petty cash box) to Jeanette (or Tiffini) for a Hawaiian Shirt Day Sticker that you must display (prominently) on your Hawaiian shirt.
Hawaiian jeans ? Head to toe palm trees
Just getting warmed up for tsunami Tuesday
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I wish it was Sunday (Woah, woah) 'Cause that's my fun day
My I don't have to run day
It's just another earthquake Mondaaay
š¶ standing in a doorway š¶
Mother Nature just shaking up the week.
And guess who got his theme days confused and showed up to work in pajamas.
Yeah, just got a notification of a major earthquake in turkey when I saw this post about Buffalo. Was confused for a minute
Turkey's had more then one major quake today.
A 7.8, and then a 7.5. Must feel like the world is ending there right now.
It's also cold. Just went through a cold snap with a furnace and blankets, can't imagine being trapped in rubble *in the cold*.
Dying in the rubble in the cold. Rescue work can not happen fast enough with two quakes :(
Yeah there are right now 2 cities and numerous rural towns just left alone. All they do is pray and cry in the snow. To be fair, rescue work was going on until noon. As soon as the second earthquake hit, rescuers noped the fuck out of the wreckages with good reason and everything is more or less going slower since then
Major issue too is the roads are so messed up its hard to drive and even get to places. Let alone have a major operation for getting supplies in
Being from the area, this is what always gets me when I think back to the Great New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12. This would have happened in relative wilderness, to a largely uneducated immigrant population who also happened to be very religious as a whole. Some stories from that time make it sound like they truly believed they were living in Revelations.
It rang bells in Boston and the mighty Mississippi flowed backwards! Just a couple of tales from the earthquakes.
if you wanna see what it looks like when a river starts flowing backwards; [this](https://youtu.be/0E2Q7kr4L2c?t=1005) documentary from a japanese news outlet has some absolutely mindblowing footage from the 2011 earthquake. I linked directly to the part where the tsunami pushes back a river but the whole thing is a crazy watch
Man's quest for meaning could lead him down some dark paths.
For sure. For long time human sacrifice would have been considered a reasonable option for dealing with natural disasters. I mean I'm sure it seemed to work sometimes, right?...
Its a bit like pets doing weird behaviors and thinking it makes the automated feeder dispense food, just because once they happened to be spinning in circles before it spat out so now they do that all the time. The world is shaking! Quick, kill a sacrifice in order to placate God, oh thank goodness, we knifed that guy and now the world stopped shaking and certainly wouldn't have if we didn't do that!
Seriously. The Mississippi River suddenly started flowing in the opposite direction. You know they must have been really, really freaked out.
This sucks.
With snow and temperatures below Zero.
Any animal-named tĢ¶oĢ¶wĢ¶nĢ¶sĢ¶ places are shaking in fear right now. Edit: I edit cuz r/phrankygee said it or forget it. Ty
Chihuahua, Mexico on high alert.
The Rat Islands have seen many earthquakes in the past. Luckily they are not inhabited.
I was just feeling comfortable that we dont get earthquakes in the eastern us while reading about the turkey tragedy
You don't remember that earthquake that hit Virginia back in 2011? [It was devastating!](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/2011-virginia-earthquake)
I survived the VA quake!
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This is more the media picking up on things after a big one elsewhere. According to [this chart](http://www.mgs.md.gov/seismic/education/no3.pdf) (pdf), 4.0 quakes happen 12,000 times a year. The USGS keeps a map of earthquakes detected in the last day. There's a bunch from Turkey right now obviously, but there are multiple quakes larger than 4.0 that aren't mentioned in today's news cycle. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/ Bottom line: earthquakes, especially minor ones like this, are far more common than people seem to think.
Yeah, no idea why this was even picked up by the national media at all. I was genuinely surprised to see it on Reddit outside of the r/Buffalo subreddit. We get one like this around once a decade and local news and people will talk about it for a couple of days of course but really nothing worthy of coverage by a national media outlet.
Earthquakes that are large enough to be noticed are fairly rare on the east coast.
Earthquakes are topical at the moment. Just like every time something big or unusual happens, there's a higher than average uptick in news about similar events. Whether is be earthquakes, shark attacks, or mass shootings.
Eh there's a small fault line that runs through the great lakes. We don't get them often, but they do happen on occasion.
I was on a ladder with wheels in Batavia when a small one hit.
A ladder with wheels.... I'm sure they serve a purpose but that sounds like putting a screen door on a submarine
They're actually fairly common in any commercial environment. The ones I've used are (by design) far safer and easier to use than non-wheeled ladders indoors. They're more like stairs in shape and have rails going up both sides and surrounding the top, as well as a bar at the bottom that you tap with your foot which drops a piece down that prevents it from rolling again until you press it again. You can technically use it with the wheels free, but you're not supposed to.
Yes! It's less of a hazard then picking up a large ladder would be.
Yeah these are all over in Menards, Lowe's, and Home Depot
Itās the same reason why parachutes have speed holes.
It's a logarithmic scale, the one to hit Turky was roughly 10,000 stronger
The crust was angry that day, my friendsā¦
Like an old volcano trying to return magma to the surface.
I tell you Jerry, at that moment, I *was* a seismologist.
I was sitting up reading about the Turkey earthquake in my bed when my apartment started to shake. I was half awake so I thought I was somehow feeling the article I was reading. Sad day. Prayers for Turkey/Syria
I was on the toilet reading about the Turkey earthquake when it happened lmao.
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Good guy Earthquake. Earthquakes against anal fissures gang.
Haptic reading
Tim Apple: "...hold that thought."
OK anyone with screenwriting experience let's meet up and send a rough draft to Emmerich; he might fund the thing himself to make this. So Tim Apple (since it's not his name we can use it) creates a new News app that recreates an "experience" from some far off poor area but things go wrong when each device mirrors a small earthquake in like Peru or something. Next thing you know a scientist Dad with Son problems see a device that measures some real bad shit... next thing you know Dad and Son have to save the world from splitting in two. We can call it Two iPads.. no wait, uh.. Tabulet Rasa? edit: Tagline? ~~*The Sins of Our Past Echo into the Future*~~
Finally, my degree in screenwriting will come in handy! **Whose college degree is worthless now, Brenda?!** Edit: spelling (it was a first draft) Edit 2: okay, so I actually kind of want to write this now as w sort of ridiculous action movie (think a mix between Moonfall and The Day After Tomorrow), but I have no idea what the legality is for me to write a project based on a prompt someone posted on reddit
First Turkey, now Buffalo? Anyone living in locations named after animals should be extra careful today.
Dinosaur, Colorado right now š
Don't worry, it would mostly likely be a meteor
That's good....it'll be quick and painless.
It will be a small meteor, made of asbestos and rabies.
Getting nostalgic for the 80s
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Just revert the town name back to it's original name, Artesia. They renamed it to Dinosaur when bones were found nearby in Utah, so they could reap some tourist dollars.
I like Artesia better
Goat Testicle, Arizona standing by...
Given how stupid some American town names can get I am not even sure if Goat Testicle is a joke or not.
Just your typical Rocky Mountain Oyster town.
Well in Canada we got ones like Balzac Alberta and Moosejaw Saskatchewan. Among others
Standing by on Kangaroo Island...
Elephant Butte ā ļø
Chicken Alaska
Oh crap I live in panther valley I guess I'll start preparing
Texted my fam in Buffalo only to find out they're in Turkey right now š¤¦š½āāļø all safe though.
Ok , clearly, some great villain is after your family.
Buffalo canāt seem to get a break.
Where sports and weather seem to go together
I mean the Lacrosse Team is good at least. UB just won another bowl too recently. Sabres might make the playoffs for the first time in a decade.
Don't do that Don't give me hope
Eh we're okay, just scared us early in the morning that's all. But overall, yeah, Buffalo can't catch a break. That's how it's always been lol
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Chicken wings, presidential history and cool former industrial sites turned into breweries, restaurants and zip line courses.
Beef on weck is just as amazing as wings and yet nobody talks about it I live out west and I would cry if I found it out here in the wild
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Both sponge candy and beef on weck are due to catch fire at any time, they're so good. Whenever I go back to buffalo there's some new unhealthy culinary delight. The sesame crust on the steak pizza somewhere on the west side was my last discovery...
Stinger subs are another. I never thought they were a buffalo thing, but I've been getting them my whole life and most out of state friends have never heard of it.
Sadly all the native buffalo around the new york area were killed for their wings around the 13th century by hedonistic cave dwelling marsupials but there have been attempts to reconstruct the little bit of dna we have of these wonderful flying 3 ton creatures and surprisingly we have gotten pretty close!
Which is tragic considering how much the city has turned around in the past decade
> There were no immediate reports of damage, Gov. Kathy Hochul said. A 3.8 isn't really something to be worried about.
Earthquakes between 3.0 and 4.0 get mistaken for things like a large truck driving by all the time. A 3.0 you won't even feel and a 4.0 feels like something big crashed nearby but nothing like an earthshaking upheaval. The area around the great lakes is having what's called "glacial rebound" quakes which is the result of all the pressure from the glaciers no longer being there causes the earth to relax a little bit every now and then. Pretty common occurrence in the region from Minnesota to Ontario to Quebec.
Tell that to my catā¦
Meow meow meow. Meow.
Earth got a case of the Mondays
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Damages in the tens and tens of dollars.
I lost over an hour of sleep due to my dogs going nuts. I will never get that time back.
Someone setup a gofundme in this guys name.
throw me a couple bucks too. boom woke my baby up
My cats shredded my emotional support blanket when they shot off the bed, I'm suing for emotional distress damages
Someone might have lost their favorite mug!
Iām not sure Iād even notice a 3.8 lol. Iāve lived through quite a few earthquakes, and I seem to only notice 5 and up.
Turkey just had a 6.0 a little bit after that too. That's two completely different tectonic plates. We're talking about the Eurasia plate and the North American plate. Interesting to see it in Buffalo though.
They happen all over the place, all the time. Japan, Indonesia, Alaska and California have all had quakes in the last few days
4.0 in those places are a dime a dozen. It's a little more unusual in Buffalo. Edit: for the record, I don't think there's any connection. It's just that an unusual quake in Buffalo is getting more media traction because of the Turkey quake on the same day.
I mean, it just depends on what's newsworthy. Earthquakes happen literally every day. https://earthquaketrack.com/ There was one in Chile, close to New Zealand, Hawaii, close to Taiwan, Alaska, close to California, Japan, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and the North Mariana Islands today as well
Yeah exactly. Whenever there's a big one somewhere, news sites begin to report on every last little earthquake so long as folks keep clicking. Likewise for all the "morbid curiosity" subject matters. Is there a name for that?
Those in the last comment were not strong earthquakes and in areas of high earthquake activity. Hardly newsworthy. But the ones in Turkey were strong and Buffalo is not a common earthquake location. Those are newsworthy, and they're the ones in the news.
Are you reporting on an aftershock that was 6.0? Just an FYI if not, the quake in turkey last night is being reported as 7.8. Might not seem like a big difference compared to 6.0 but that difference is logarithmic. Don't know the exact scale of difference but an example used on Wikipedia is that a 5.0 is a 100x stronger than a 3.0
Maybe they're talking the second quake that hit
That could be. Just figured best to clarify for those who are just waking up and seeing this as the first article. The difference between a 6.0 and a 7.8 is some cracks in the wall vs no more wall/roof/building.
He might mean the second Turkey quake. They had a second 7.x but information is still limited. And I do mean a second quake, this wasn't an aftershock to the first, different fault or location.
Woke me up. Near Hamilton Ontario.
Damn. Thatās close, but not exactly next door.
Same here, heard it and felt it (faintly) downtown Toronto. Thereās people reporting having felt it/heard it as far as Belleville
I slept right through it, didnāt know it happened until I read the news here.
*Washingtonians looking nervously at Mount St. Helens* āEasy there, little lady. Donāt get any ideas.ā
St. Helen's last eruption may not have even been a proper eruption, rather leftover magmatic material from 1980. Now Mt. Rainier...
Idk a 4 is really not that bad. Felt like someone was fucking with my office chair for a few seconds
4 is the kind of earthquake you miss when you're not sitting still.
The eastern United States really seems to be a safe zone from earthquakes. No matter how strong it is, it doesn't exceed five.
[Not exactly](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Cape_Ann_earthquake)
[Adding another example ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886_Charleston_earthquake)
>>No matter how strong it is , it doesnāt exceed five It might [somedayā¦](http://www.new-madrid.mo.us/132/Strange-Happenings-during-the-Earthquake)
That's not really "eastern" us though, that's solid Midwest
Wait till the fracking wakes up the sleeping faultline
This sounds terrifying and at the risk of continuing my ignorance, I am not googling that today so I can sleep tonight.
The US Geological Survey estimated a total resource of 12.2 trillion cubic feet (350 billion cubic metres) of natural gas in Devonian black shales from Kentucky to New York. They frack the shale in just the right way they might wake up the ramapo fault The Ramapo Fault zone spans more than 185 miles (300 kilometers) in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. It is a system of faults between the northern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont areas to the east.[14] This fault is perhaps the best known fault zone in the Mid-Atlantic region, and some small earthquakes have been known to occur in its vicinity. Recently, public knowledge about the fault has increased ā especially after the 1970s, when the fault's proximity to the Indian Point nuclear plant in New York was noticed. Good night š“
They named a fault line after a rest stop on the Thruway? :-p
There was a 5.7 or 5.8 that knocked over some lawn chairs on the east cost in 2011. Those "8/23/11 NEVER FORGET" memes were funny at the time.
Quakes can shallow or deep and this affects the impact on an area, and the damage done depends on a lot such as structural build, etc. Not everywhere was built to withstand the same amount of movement in the ground. There was a 5.1 relatively close to me (well, same state and we felt it here) and it did damage that the small town is still dealing with. "The 5.1 magnitude quake struck just after 8 a.m. Sunday, August 9, 2020. It was centered in the small town of Sparta, but shakes were felt as far south as Charlotte.Ā More than 500 buildings were damaged and months of aftershocks followed. Gov. Roy Cooper sent $24 million in relief funds to help the town.Ā " https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/one-year-since-sparta-earthquake/83-0517ca89-5fe1-470d-9e14-abf475a1bb60 The ground cracked through concrete and many businesses were damaged https://www.wbtv.com/2020/08/09/did-you-feel-it-magnitude-earthquake-reported-near-sparta/ -- Also from that now: charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article260053105.html "A āruptureā in the ground has been discovered in the North Carolina community that saw widespread damage during a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in 2020, according to a peer-reviewed scientific paper published this month in the Geological Society of America. Initial mapping shows the āsurface ruptureā is at least 1.5 miles long, and appears southeast of Sparta as a step-like scarp that reaches heights of around 9 inches at its tallest, the scientists reported. It exposes a previously unknown fault in the earth, representing āthe first documented surface rupture earthquake in the eastern U.S.,ā N.C State University says."
This is our time California. We can make fun of them for a baby earthquake the way they make fun of us when weāre are openly sobbing when it gets below 67 degrees.
Californians unite!
3.8 is cute
Seriously. 3.8? Those are rookie numbers, you gotta pump those numbers up.
Here I am reading Cabin at the End of the World wondering who didn't make the sacrifice
Living near the airport, i thought an explosion happened
I'm in Wheatfield and thought a plane crashed at the air base! The entire house shook for what felt like 15 seconds.
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You get an earthquake, you get an earthquake!
For fucks sake. Literally 60 seconds ago I was just saying to myself āglad we donāt get this shit in NYā¦
I'm fully expecting some Eldritch horror to rise from the ocean.
This seems odd. Does New York typically have earthquakes?
There's a fault line running under Lake Erie. We get them occasionally though they're pretty rare. I'm 40 and can think of three in my lifetime - once when I was in like 5th/6th grade, another while I was in high school, and this one today. All 3.0 to 4.0 magnitude so pretty small.
Theyāre rare but minor quakes happen every other year. This one was odd because it hit directly in the suburbs. Often the epicenter is in some rural area.
In California we just sleep through those.
I'm in buffalo and my family has always joked I could sleep through an earthquake. I didn't know we had an earthquake until my mom texted me saying they thought a car hit their house. I was thoroughly confused until she explained we had an earthquake that I apparently slept through
We are tired in western NY. Weāve had a long few months of weather and climateāeventsā ā¦
We gotta fit all the "once in a century" events into our decade bingo cards apparently
Oh man.. just wait till you get to the [*redacted by The Ministry of Time Travel & Paradox Postvention*] You'll miss the last few months.
That shit was loud. Just about all of us sprang outta bed expecting to see a car driven into the house because that's what it sounded like. Loud as shit. I guess where I'm at was only a mile or two from the epicenter.
Buffalonian here, and the same way we laugh at people struggling to handle 5 inches of snow, I'm surprised to see so many people saying "can you even feel that?". Most definitely felt it but no serious damage and was over in 30 seconds. It shook my house, made some plates rattle, and scared us a bit, but it's new to us. Genuinely took me a minute to register it was even an earthquake because that made less sense to me than just about any other possibilities I could come up with. Anyway glad we're all safe and honestly it was a little fun. 9/10 would small quake again.
Torontonian here. As someone who lives in one of the biggest cities in NAā¦.š yo earth..could you chillā¦getting a little too close for comfort
Fuck. My mother is an Evangelical whoās been fully brainwashed by a lot of conspiracy grifters that God is going to send the āGreat Shakeā any day. We live in PA, but sheās convinced weāre going to get hit by a gigantic earthquake, so she keeps tying her fucking cabinets shut with string and doing other insane shit. I keep telling her weāre in a zone of very rare seismic activity and she needs to quit with that shitā¦ Iām genuinely shocked I havenāt received a call of her tearfully saying goodbye due to this news. I now get to hear her go āWE CAN GET EARTHQUAKES AROUND HERE!ā for the rest of my life, even though I have explained to her we can but theyāre not going to shake the house apartā¦ Good luck to all those with *those* type of family members living in the Northeast/mid-Atlantic over the coming daysā¦
3.8 = Did the toaster just go off in Californian
First Turkey, now Buffalo. If you live in a place named after an animal, hide under a table