10:30 this morning 4.8
A lot of media noise about not much.
Tsunami 
lucky I wasn’t paddling. Shook the house good. Dog was running around scared. Deep rumble noise she said. I was 40 miles east on Long Island and felt nothing.
Yes, there was an aftershock just before 6pm, news reported it as 4.0 magnitude.
In Astoria (Queens NY), the quake started out feeling like a very large truck going by the building, then got more severe quickly. It was quite loud, and there was general shaking and rattling in my century+ old apartment. I’m guessing it lasted 20-30 seconds. I thought the most likely cause was an earthquake or a jet crashing on approach to LaGuardia airport, which is nearby. I would not characterize it as ‘not much.’
I was surprised to hear it was a quake of magnitude 4.8 and located pretty far away. My (deaf) cat was very freaked out and stayed that way for an hour or so.
Shawn is a geology professor from Utah . He gives clear explanations of events using data not drama. I’ve been following his Iceland volcano reports. Here he explains the NY quake.
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I was working in Ronkonkoma NY felt nothing.
She did feel it at home on Woodcleft Canal Freeport. I would have liked to of had the experience.
I lived in central NJ for over 30 years, not too far from Whitehouse Station where the epicenter of the quake was. I texted a friend this morning who still lives there. His response was that he heard it more than felt it. He initially thought it was a low flying helicopter from Princeton airport, then he briefly thought it might be a tornado approaching. He said his house vibrated a little but nothing really shook and he didn’t think much of it until he saw the news reports.