An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 rattles US cities’ foundations and buildings, causing alarm among conspiracy theorists and doomsayers.
An earthquake shook the never-sleeping city of New York on Friday morning, rattling furniture, briefly grounding planes, and unseating diplomats at the UN Security Council.
However, nobody was harmed, and New York’s famous skyline was unharmed.
According to the United States Geological Survey [USGS], the tremor had a magnitude of 4.8.
According to Karine Jean-Pierre, the US President’s spokesperson, Joe Biden was informed about the earthquake.
“I spoke with the governor about the earthquake, and he believes everything is under control and is not too worried about it. the New Jersey governor. So everything is well,” Biden stated afterwards.
Dominika Uniejewska, 50, a store supervisor in Lebanon, New Jersey, near the epicentre, remarked, “I’m still shaking,” after being startled awake by the earthquake.
“I’ve never felt an earthquake this powerful. I had had some prior experiences, but nothing like that. The home was trembling all over. The house was rumbling and the bed was trembling,” she remarked.
The Empire State Building posted on its X account, “I AM FINE,” saying.
Buildings in Brooklyn trembled, causing fixtures and cabinet doors to rattle, according to an AFP correspondent.
“I’m trembling and anxious. “A lot of people are afraid right now,” 62-year-old Brooklynite Ana Villagran stated.
Following the earthquake, a Security Council meeting regarding the situation in Gaza was momentarily suspended at the United Nations, which is headquartered in New York.
Janti Soeripto, a spokeswoman for Save the Children, said during her speech, “Is that an earthquake?” A diplomat made a jest, saying, “One for the memoirs.”
“Stay inside.”
A few while later, the sound of the emergency warning system verifying the earthquake blared on the cell phones of numerous ambassadors.
The emergency alert stated, “Residents are advised to remain indoors and to call 911 if they are injured.”
A number of the area’s airports, including La Guardia in New York, Philadelphia, and Newark in New Jersey, suspended flight operations.
As soon as feasible, air traffic operations are starting up again, according to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration.
People on social media reported feeling the tremor from Long Island eastward and from Philadelphia up to New York.
A few of users shared pictures of overturned outdoor furniture with the comment, “we will rebuild.”
“Earthquakes are uncommon but not unheard of along the Atlantic Coast, a zone one study called a “passive-aggressive margin” because there’s no active plate boundary between the Atlantic and North American plates,” the USGS said on X.
According to the USGS, lesser earthquakes are felt generally every two to three years, while substantially destructive earthquakes occur anywhere in the urban corridor about every two centuries.
At a hurriedly called press conference, New York Governor Kathy Hochul recognized that citizens were “not accustomed” to earthquakes and cautioned them to be cautious of any potential aftershocks.
Quake becomes crazy
A few days before the April 8 solar eclipse, which will be visible over large portions of the northeastern United States, social media users humorously asked if it meant the end of the world.
“God is telling America to repent through powerful signs. Recognized conspiracy theorist even in ordinary times, Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on X, “Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come.”
She added, “I pray that our country listens.”
On the other hand, some observers noted that Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey golf club was not far from the epicenter of the earthquake.
The anti-Trump MeidasTouch group highlighted the geography of New Jersey beneath a meme of “Dark Brandon,” which is a parody of Joe Biden that has the 81-year-old president beaming red lasers out of his eyes while grinning.
Others ridiculed the pessimists by voicing some of their own.
“Old Gypsy woman: *turns over a tarot card that shows an earthquake in NYC just days before a total solar eclipse*,” posted Robert McNees, a physicist, on X.
According to reports, New Yorkers should prepare for a locust infestation in the wake of the eclipse, floods, and earthquake. Concerns of plagues surfacing so close to Passover “An other X poster wrote.
As the media center of the United States, New York guarantees an unmatched proportion of reporters to news stories.
Maybe The Guardian will be declared the winner of the subsequent competition for the most creative headlines, with their entry, “US man was getting vasectomy as earthquake struck.”
The report claims that he recovered from the ordeal just like everyone else in the never-sleeping city.
He said to the source, “It felt like a speed bump most of the time.”
SOURCE: TRTWORLD
