what's your weather currently like?

[MisterSnoop]

The NJ quake was a 4.8. I was either in my car or standing outside at the time. I didn't even notice it.

[chilly]

I saw about the quake on the news. Never in all my years in Jersey did I feel one

Everything okay there? I hope nothing more than a few fallen objects

We had one some years ago, apparently 2011. No big deal, by the time I figured out what it was, it was over. So 2 so far, you're right Bill, we never had one when you lived up here. We had an aftershock yesterday afternoon.

Chilly, no, we don't have them here. People seem more freaked out by this one than the last one, that one in 2011 was in the DC area, so we were pretty far away, the epicenter of this one was actually in NJ. The frequency of this one felt different, if that makes any sense, perhaps due to the proximity.

Australia is not known for earthquakes, but we had a biggish one back in December 1989. It hit near Newcastle, on the east coast, about 15 miles from where I live now. But I lived in Sydney back then, I was at work that day and we felt it, about 80 miles away, we were inside a concrete building at the time, we heard it shake, along with all of the light fittings. Half the staff sprinted outside, the rest of us wandered out slowly wondering what all the excitement was about, we all thought it was pretty cool. Later on we heard 13 people had died in Newcastle. It was a 5.6 that hit at a depth of 7.1 miles.



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The NJ quake was a 4.8. I was either in my car or standing outside at the time. I didn't even notice it.

We get quakes constantly and most people just learn to ignore them unless they rattle your house, but some folks just can't handle it and they leave

The 7.5 quake in November of 2018 was pretty destructive but nobody died

A lot of houses built during the pipeline boom sustained more damage than houses built before the great quake of 1964 or those built after the pipeline frenzy

Contractors from the lower 48 came up here and threw up thousands of houses built to lower 48 specs and the suffered all out of proportion to houses built to the Alaska standard

It was like gold rush mentality and so many houses were built in areas or communities that didn't really have building inspection practices in place

I am going to switch to my phone after I post this and add some pictures from the 2018 quake