You can imagine my alarm, lying on my sofa, working VERY HARD, when suddenly my Brooklyn apartment began trembling.
Suddenly, my Slack was aflame: Did we, in NYC, have an EARTHQUAKE?
But no, USGS, a service I have never heard of, confirmed a 4.8 earthquake in New York and New Jersey. My MIL confirmed that she felt it in Connecticut. Connecticut! Further reports from my group chats suggest Philly and Boston.
Naturally, Twitter (sorry, X) began flooding with people asking whether they had actually just experienced an earthquake, or if it was just, say, construction:
as a 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit manhattan i couldn't help but wonder...was my relationship with big structurally sound enough to withstand the impact? pic.twitter.com/zRqs43m5ZH
U know ur east coast is showing when u experience an earthquake for the 1st time and ur first thought is “NO the apartment building is collapsing from structural damages and my shitty landlord NOOO”
