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Comment by altdataseller | Hacker News Reader

Didn’t even feel at all? Was in Queens, NY, strangely a couple of people around me felt it though

I'm in Forest Hills (fifth story) and at first I thought it was the usual extreme wind we get because the windows were shaking heavily. Then it got worse and I realized what it was when I felt it through the floor.

I've felt at least one other in the last year or two here but my wife in the other room did not. This one was the strongest I've been through though.

Are you in the Kennedy?

Nope.

My building rattled for a good 15 seconds.

Same here in northern NJ just outside Manhattan. It was extremely noticeable, my cat also freaked out briefly.

4.7 is literally nothing

It’s actually “moderate shaking and light damage expected”[1] but go off sis.

(1)https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74...

It is very obviously not "literally nothing", given the amount of people chiming in that they felt it.

> 4.7 is literally nothing

4.7 quake at 1 km depth will shake more at the surface than a 6.0 at 30 km depth

4.7 at 5km depth is still nothing for anyone not immediately above the epicenter.

East coast geology (older, harder rocks) causes earthquakes to feel about ten times stronger than a west coast earthquake. This is felt roughly the same as a 5.8 in California. That's enough to be notable, especially at a shallow depth.

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