EDIT 1: New video ruclips.net/video/ZP5SOp1IfiE/видео.htmlsi=R_hhH0YYUwpXji7C has been released covering the moments after the Tower is entirely evacuated. Controllers were managing all traffic from a remote site, suffering some radio issues. It's been non-stop editing since the very moment it has occured today. Thanks to all those followers in the area that have reported it to me while listening to LiveATC and witnessing the airspace controlled chaos ballet. Immense KUDOS to those Towers, N90, ZNY and nearby controllers. Kudos to pilots as well for their patience and their good judgement when deciding to divert. Aviation is awesome
I remember when one airport was closed for a week after an earthquake. Some of the runway had to be resurfaced. Safety first. Glad there wasn't anything major that happened. Thanks for the FAST post. v
Listing the order sounds good but it reminded me... In the Tokyo runway incursion (January I think), ATC telling the Coastguard aircraft that he was number 1 for takeoff was one of the factors that lead him to enter the runway at an intersection only to be hit by the JAL A350 that was cleared to land... (Maybe that comes to mind because the Coastguard aircraft was responding to a seismic event, although in that instance it had happened the previous day).
To put into perspective how fast you made this, UA131 is still in-flight on their way over to Japan. For reference, I'm writing this 5 hours after THE VIDEO was posted! Well done!
Crisis? It was a 4.8. That's nothing. In New Zealand or Japan that wouldn't even rate a mention on the news and it would get no more than a slight heads up from people at the time only to see if it was going to increase towards something of note. Hell, you won't get people commenting in NZ or Japan until it goes over 5, and they won't panic or react quickly until you're hitting 6.5 or higher.
@@VASAviation , I read the reason it was felt by so many people is the geology in the area; mainly solid rock. Where as, in other parts of the world, plate tectonics plays more of a role in earthquakes. v
It’s being reported in alternative media that the New Madrid fault might become active on eclipse. Be careful on the 8th… the sun may go out for three days too. Great videos 👍🏻
Loved how tower + all the aircraft were so chill with each other. Everyone seemed to VERY much understand that this was unusual circumstances, no tantrums thrown. Love it!
Not real sure if she is "headstrong" but I know the position she is in requires quick, succinct, and level-headed comms. She performed great. Or maybe you are a MCP or something.
being from los angeles one time we were having a meeting a something of similar strength hit. the east coast people dove under the conference table. we just kept talking.
As a Californian now living in the east coast, I can agree with this. We had a 7.0 in Baja that sent shockwaves through our area, moving cars around in the parking lot and having aftershocks of 4.8. THAT was the most insane. We had motion sickness from the constant 4s-5s for an hour to three hours.
I lived in California for many years, through many earthquakes, and had never felt one quite like this one (in NJ). It lasted much longer and was a very different sensation. I actually wondered if there had been a huge explosion at first. Also, being on the 3rd floor of a 100+ year old brick building was terrifying.
That Ramapo fault line really shook everyone up pretty good! I'm around 40 or so miles from the epicenter and my house had a good enough shake to jostle around the dishes in the sink to make some good clanging. Newark airport had to have a rougher shake than what I felt but I'm glad there was no damage to anything so far
Similar distance here. No dishes to rattle at the time but I feel like they would have! It felt like a really hard shock of wind to me at the first moment, but then it just kept going. Nothing fell over, though. I was in an earthquake in 1992 that was a little less strong, but the perceived motion that time was very different. Much more back and forth; a picture on a shelf above the bed fell over. This was much more sharp rattling type of movement, and it lasted a while. Newark probably did feel it stronger than here, between proximity and the effect of being on sediment and fill instead of bedrock.
I'm in Eastern PA and felt it... First time I've experienced an actual earthquake (discounting vibrations from Earth moving equipment/compactors when they were fixing a water main break).
@@orlovsskibetJack Frost :) Not unusual in winter around here for that to happen... after they fixed the break, they packed the earth around it again using a compacting machine that shook the crap out of everything within 100 yds...
Years ago I experienced a tremor at 4:38am which felt like a hammock lightly swaying. I was actually awakened by old school metal drawer pulls making a tinkling sound
I felt it this morning here in my high rise building in New Brunswick, New Jersey and it was very strong and scary and I have felt other earthquakes before in my life. I totally understand the KEWR tower response here.
@@iatsd I guess you don't know very much... Earthquakes here are NOT common. This isn't Japan or New Zealand. LOL. It was very UNEXPECTED. Also, I was exactly 20 MILES from the epicenter and high up in a building. So YES, it was shaking ALOT and Scary. Sorry that you seem to be so confused about that... I'd love to see the News frenzy if NZ got a blizzard or hurricane which we are used to. No difference! Thanks for the helpful comment though...
@@EWRFLYER >>Also, I was exactly 20 MILES from the epicenter and high up in a building. So YES, it was shaking ALOT and Scary. Sorry that you seem to be so confused about that...
@@iatsddifference is that our bedrock is different. It was felt as far as Albany hundreds of miles north. Our buildings aren’t built for this, there hasn’t been an earthquake this large here since like the 1880s. This is probably the largest northeast earthquake on record.
Really excellent communication from the controller during what must’ve been an exciting time. Little disappointing no pilots solicited the tower for a PIREP on the turbulence 😂
@@paulazemeckis7835 Nope, just a bit of humor since tower usually asks pilots about air turbulence, while in this case the tower experienced ground 'turbulence'.
Being from Chile 🇨🇱 it is always interesting to see others countries behaviour during an event like this. Pretty much culture and construction laws have us prepare for the worst down here. A 4.8 here? Nobody even flinch, but there? I can imagine what is like to never have felt something like that before.
This is more an East Coast thing than a full US thing; a 4.8 on the West Coast is as unremarkable there as it is for you, but this kind of thing basically never happens on the East Coast, so it was a much bigger deal.
1989: Loma Prieto quake blew out our window in SFO Tower. 6.9. Not to downplay the NY quake effect on ATC ops, California ATC has gotten plenty of experience with quakes.
You are quick! It just happened this morning - hit at 10:24 am for me in the NYC area. My whole house shook for a few seconds, nothing fell over, but I was quite confused as to what was happening at first as I've never felt anything like it
I'm in Suffolk County on Long Island and my desk was shaking pretty good. Felt like a train going by, but a much harsher rumble. This is why I can't live in Cali 😂
That female controller at LGA has had a couple of challenging shifts. First Southwest 147 nearly collided with the control tower and now the earthquake. Maybe a few extra days off for her to recover 🙄
I was flying helicopter tours in Pennsylvania and heard on the CTAF about planes saying they couldn’t land because of an earthquake. Definitely a first for me to hear.
Kind of like when we get 2 inches of snow here on the west coast everything shuts down and people in the east get a good laugh out of that. Now we're all kind of giggling about the east coast reaction to a minor quake.
RCTP is quite far from the center of the quake. For me living approx. 25 miles from RCTP I didn’t even get out of bed. The quake center is closest to RCYU however it only has 2-3 flights a day. Us Taiwanese people are used to shimmers line these, however this was a big one
@@DaveTseng I know it's not next to the epicenter, but I wouldn't have expected it to die down that quickly over just 25 miles. Thanks for the info though!
I'm from Southern California, so I don't get out of bed for under a 4. A 4.8? Oof, that's a decent shake, depending on how long it lasts. It looks like this one lasted 30 seconds. That's about the magnitude when you start to see some minor damage, but most of that is household goods falling down. What's worrisome is that most of New York City was built before the city adopted earthquake safety provisions (adopted in 1995). There's a lot of wood-frame construction with ornamental masonry facade, which even under non-earthquake conditions occasionally falls down. I wouldn't be surprised if a few towers pop out some windows, but there shouldn't be any major structural damage presuming the building was sound prior to the shaking.
@@BlueCyann The reporting I'm reading says "about 30 seconds or so", but they're all quoting the same resident. Depending on your area and the distance from the epicenter, you might not be able to sense the entire duration, or the duration may be prolonged due to rebounding waves. I'm not sure if there's an official report on the duration yet or if that's even a meaningful question to ask. I can't find the duration in the USGS report, but it could be in there somewhere! They collect a ton of data which is only meaningful to experts.
My dad was in Texas with a co-worker on a business trip, maybe 45 to 50 years ago. They were on a higher floor, and there was an earthquake. He said the Texans were scared out of their mind and co-worker and him were like 4.0-5.0. They agreed 4.5. He said you could tell that the building was not retrofitted.
I'm from AK, I sleep through 7.0. just because NY has a large population doesn't make it headline news worthy for the entire day. a few years back anchorage had an 8.4 that barely made it into the local papers, much less national headlines.
I wonder if the passengers in the air are told about why they were delayed? I would love to hear the audio during the SF quake in 89. I was there and still traumatized 😂
Good morning, this is your captain speaking. We're going to take a few turns in the merry-go-round while we wait for solid ground to become solid again since we did not bring our off-roading tires today. Please enjoy this scenic view of New York and we'll update you when it's our turn to get off this ride. Thank you.
You’re really fast. I live near LaGuardia and I was plane spotting a bit when the earthquake happened. Saw several go-arounds. I hope no one was injured😢
It was the largest earthquake recorded within 150 miles since 1950. Also, because the rocks are denser, earthquakes in the eastern US are felt over a much wider area than earthquakes of comparable magnitude in California.
@@LongieR8erIt’s almost as like people in the eastern seaboard aren’t fucking used to earthquakes and they might be surprised! It’s okay, I know that seeing another perspective may be difficult but try to connect the brain neurons
Im in NY, and its funny how you sense it coming before it hits. I was sleeping. And just woke up. I dont wake up after 5 hours of sleep but did (I work nights). I woke up, and felt the tremor, thought it was a truck, then it got stronger, and thought, must be a really heavy truck, and then the nextr tremors removed all doubt. Got into emergency mode, got up. Made sure all was ok, had some damage in my garage though. But, not huge, but def enough to shake things around, and def big for this area. Ive felt nasty ones before, where you couldnt even stand up. Still, hope everyone doesnt have any damage
I was sitting in the United Club lounge and we all felt the shake! Earthquake was last thing we thought, we thought the building was gonna collapse or some heavy man/women was running around!
I was just sitting in my house when it started just shaking could hear things rattling around. Love experiencing stuff like that since it’s not normal at all.
I was literally flying out there when it happened. I was coming from Dublin when the First Officer came on the PA. A few gasps came but when we landed and they put their phones off flight mode, it was a musical of emergency text sirens. When I went to Times Square that nite, you wouldn't think there was an earthquake. TG it wasn't anything more serious
NJ resident here, my entire apartment was shaking for a good 20 seconds. Initially it sounded like snow falling off the roof when it begins to melt, but I knew there is no snow and that's when it hit me that it was a quake.
Wow, this controller was really on top of it, getting planes to take off right away from the new location, communicating clearly with everyone. Inspection crews also seemed to be pretty quick to report the runway status, impressive work all around. Now I'm curious to know how this would go in SFO…
Can someone explain to me why they evacuated the tower for a 4.8 magnitude earthquake? I live in the area of the earthquake and people here say it was just a shake but nothing serious or alarming. I didn't feel it myself.
Because a tower on the east Coast wasn't built with earthquakes in mind? You heard it on the radio calls, it's super rare, maybe one every 10-15 years and usually not a 4.8...
Crazy! My sister in Brooklyn texted me earlier when it happened. Pretty good shake, prolly from fracking in Jersey somewhere. Didn't even think bout disruptions to air traffic...seemed like they handled it well and got everyone OTW OK. Thx for ATC upload!
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EDIT 1: New video ruclips.net/video/ZP5SOp1IfiE/видео.htmlsi=R_hhH0YYUwpXji7C has been released covering the moments after the Tower is entirely evacuated. Controllers were managing all traffic from a remote site, suffering some radio issues.
It's been non-stop editing since the very moment it has occured today. Thanks to all those followers in the area that have reported it to me while listening to LiveATC and witnessing the airspace controlled chaos ballet.
Immense KUDOS to those Towers, N90, ZNY and nearby controllers. Kudos to pilots as well for their patience and their good judgement when deciding to divert. Aviation is awesome
Honestly this video is the reason why I know about the earthquake in the first place 🤣
I remember when one airport was closed for a week after an earthquake. Some of the runway had to be resurfaced. Safety first. Glad there wasn't anything major that happened. Thanks for the FAST post. v
Incredibly fast getting this video up!
@@virginiatyree6705 yeah, it can really cause damage to the surface. Thanks for watching
@@MichaelJM always :)
Guy in the tower with some Mozart level conducting of the situation. Well done
Mozart was a composer, not a conductor
Of course but he conducted his own pieces as well
I love the situational awareness that the tower controller provided by just listing the order in which he'll send 'em out. Very professional.
Listing the order sounds good but it reminded me...
In the Tokyo runway incursion (January I think), ATC telling the Coastguard aircraft that he was number 1 for takeoff was one of the factors that lead him to enter the runway at an intersection only to be hit by the JAL A350 that was cleared to land...
(Maybe that comes to mind because the Coastguard aircraft was responding to a seismic event, although in that instance it had happened the previous day).
To put into perspective how fast you made this, UA131 is still in-flight on their way over to Japan. For reference, I'm writing this 5 hours after THE VIDEO was posted! Well done!
Damn you’re fast. This just happened only a few hours ago. I managed to feel it in Philly.
How was that?
Did they have any issues at PHL at all?
Philly deez nuts
I felt it in Lancaster!
@@VASAviationPhilly had a couple of go arounds and stopped departures for a bit. But mostly had diversions coming in that were bound for EWR.
That tower guy was on the ball. Kudos to him.
ATC was great! All of the pilots and ATC were professionals.
Huge respect to that tower controller. Calm in a crisis. Definitely what you need in that situation!
Crisis? It was a 4.8. That's nothing. In New Zealand or Japan that wouldn't even rate a mention on the news and it would get no more than a slight heads up from people at the time only to see if it was going to increase towards something of note. Hell, you won't get people commenting in NZ or Japan until it goes over 5, and they won't panic or react quickly until you're hitting 6.5 or higher.
There you go again with a FAST update & post! Thanks. New Yorkers are freaking out. Maybe, surprised is a better adjective, maybe; my bad...
Yeah, apparently Newark was shaking very much
@@VASAviation , I read the reason it was felt by so many people is the geology in the area; mainly solid rock. Where as, in other parts of the world, plate tectonics plays more of a role in earthquakes. v
New Yorker here, no we're not - don't believe everything you see on TV. We're just chatting it up and having a laugh. The folks in NJ felt it more.
California is laughing at NY lol. That's basically a tremor for Californians.
It’s being reported in alternative media that the New Madrid fault might become active on eclipse. Be careful on the 8th… the sun may go out for three days too. Great videos 👍🏻
That controllers sequencing was perfect a don't and done in a efficient and timely manner great job by the controllers
Loved how tower + all the aircraft were so chill with each other. Everyone seemed to VERY much understand that this was unusual circumstances, no tantrums thrown. Love it!
The lady from EWR did an excellent job! Very professional & super head strong. Major respect for all the workers. 🙏🏾
Not real sure if she is "headstrong" but I know the position she is in requires quick, succinct, and level-headed comms. She performed great. Or maybe you are a MCP or something.
@@paulazemeckis7835 My comment was posted to commend somebody who I felt stood out to me, your invalidation of my thoughts doesn’t change what I said.
@@lildotty3263 You used the wrong word. Deal with it.
Big excitement in NY metro area. People living in earthquake areas don't even get out of bed for a 4.8.
being from los angeles one time we were having a meeting a something of similar strength hit. the east coast people dove under the conference table. we just kept talking.
As a Californian now living in the east coast, I can agree with this. We had a 7.0 in Baja that sent shockwaves through our area, moving cars around in the parking lot and having aftershocks of 4.8. THAT was the most insane. We had motion sickness from the constant 4s-5s for an hour to three hours.
Plus a 4.8 in the east is felt much farther than a 4.8 on the west coast because of the bedrock type.
I mean, I didn't get out of bed for this either. But it did wake me up and make me wonder when it was going to stop.
I lived in California for many years, through many earthquakes, and had never felt one quite like this one (in NJ). It lasted much longer and was a very different sensation. I actually wondered if there had been a huge explosion at first. Also, being on the 3rd floor of a 100+ year old brick building was terrifying.
That Ramapo fault line really shook everyone up pretty good! I'm around 40 or so miles from the epicenter and my house had a good enough shake to jostle around the dishes in the sink to make some good clanging. Newark airport had to have a rougher shake than what I felt but I'm glad there was no damage to anything so far
Similar distance here. No dishes to rattle at the time but I feel like they would have! It felt like a really hard shock of wind to me at the first moment, but then it just kept going. Nothing fell over, though. I was in an earthquake in 1992 that was a little less strong, but the perceived motion that time was very different. Much more back and forth; a picture on a shelf above the bed fell over. This was much more sharp rattling type of movement, and it lasted a while. Newark probably did feel it stronger than here, between proximity and the effect of being on sediment and fill instead of bedrock.
Awesome job by ATC. EWR, JFK, LGA and N90 best in the business!
Crazy busy airspace! v
except for when it comes to emergencies
Amazing that you put this together so quickly, great job as always!
Sure, thanks!
I'm in Eastern PA and felt it... First time I've experienced an actual earthquake (discounting vibrations from Earth moving equipment/compactors when they were fixing a water main break).
who broke the water mains? I feel like we need more details in this comment 😁
@@orlovsskibetJack Frost :) Not unusual in winter around here for that to happen... after they fixed the break, they packed the earth around it again using a compacting machine that shook the crap out of everything within 100 yds...
Felt it in New Hampshire also - 4.8 pretty good for north east.
Years ago I experienced a tremor at 4:38am which felt like a hammock lightly swaying. I was actually awakened by old school metal drawer pulls making a tinkling sound
4.8?
*New Zealand & Japan have entered the chat* lol
Controller did an excellent job -- I could tell there were a lot of distractions going on in the cab and he powered though it!
Thanks from Germany your fast work. You should work for the NTSB with your videos.
Sehe ich auch so. Greetz from Cologne! 😉
I was on the can in the Newark airport when this happened. Lucky to have made it out alive.
Did it help?
That’s a true statement earthquake or no 😬😬🤣
Were you in one of the stalls with "forest" wallpaper in the United terminal?
@@terrybarnett273 I was going to make a similar comment!
happy to hear you didn't fall in.
I felt it this morning here in my high rise building in New Brunswick, New Jersey and it was very strong and scary and I have felt other earthquakes before in my life. I totally understand the KEWR tower response here.
4.8?
*New Zealand & Japan have entered the chat* lol Scary? lol
@@iatsd I guess you don't know very much...
Earthquakes here are NOT common. This isn't Japan or New Zealand. LOL. It was very UNEXPECTED. Also, I was exactly 20 MILES from the epicenter and high up in a building. So YES, it was shaking ALOT and Scary. Sorry that you seem to be so confused about that...
I'd love to see the News frenzy if NZ got a blizzard or hurricane which we are used to. No difference! Thanks for the helpful comment though...
@@EWRFLYER >>Also, I was exactly 20 MILES from the epicenter and high up in a building. So YES, it was shaking ALOT and Scary. Sorry that you seem to be so confused about that...
@@iatsddifference is that our bedrock is different. It was felt as far as Albany hundreds of miles north. Our buildings aren’t built for this, there hasn’t been an earthquake this large here since like the 1880s. This is probably the largest northeast earthquake on record.
Really excellent communication from the controller during what must’ve been an exciting time. Little disappointing no pilots solicited the tower for a PIREP on the turbulence 😂
Do earthquakes cause air turbulence? Please educate me about this.
@@paulazemeckis7835The tower shook because of the earthquake. Hence “soliciting the tower for a PIREP on the turbulence.”
It’s a joke.
@@paulazemeckis7835 Nope, just a bit of humor since tower usually asks pilots about air turbulence, while in this case the tower experienced ground 'turbulence'.
Wow job well done EWR 👏🏽
Nice quick upload, thanks Victor! I felt it pretty good in my office 150 miles away, on a concrete slab.
Being from Chile 🇨🇱 it is always interesting to see others countries behaviour during an event like this. Pretty much culture and construction laws have us prepare for the worst down here.
A 4.8 here? Nobody even flinch, but there? I can imagine what is like to never have felt something like that before.
Yeah this was my first and I thought it was just the subway. lol
This is more an East Coast thing than a full US thing; a 4.8 on the West Coast is as unremarkable there as it is for you, but this kind of thing basically never happens on the East Coast, so it was a much bigger deal.
I was sitting in class taking a quiz when it hit, first quake I ever felt. You're quick with these!
Awesome ATC work. Bravo 👏
Awesome how fast this upload was and glad to hear all the audio.
Great going ATC needs more men like this guy. Thanks to all of of you and love from all of us on Staten Island, New York
1989: Loma Prieto quake blew out our window in SFO Tower. 6.9. Not to downplay the NY quake effect on ATC ops, California ATC has gotten plenty of experience with quakes.
Thanks for getting this uploaded so quickly!
Awesome job getting this posted so quickly. Kudos to professionalism of ATC and pilots.
You are quick! It just happened this morning - hit at 10:24 am for me in the NYC area. My whole house shook for a few seconds, nothing fell over, but I was quite confused as to what was happening at first as I've never felt anything like it
Excellent controller
Wow, huge respect to your editing skills! I know this took a lot of work to get things finished and uploaded so fast!
Didn't leave the computer until it was done
@@VASAviation At least you didn't fall asleep at the keyboard...like I did a few weeks ago while composing a new song. Got a wee bit too drunk. lol
So impressive! Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you for the super fast edit.🙏😃
Thank you for watching
Was in the office on 6th floor in Manhattan when this hit. First earthquake i've ever felt. Weird feeling and hearing the building shake.
What teamwork and coordination by all..Great job!
Amazingly quick release. Been loving all of your content, Thanks for all you do!
Thank you for watching!
Great audio coverage! Thanks, as always!
Professionals all around. Bravo & thanks for posting.
Great work putting together this clip almost as soon as it happened. Glad everything worked out. In California a 4.8 would barely wake us up.
I'm in Suffolk County on Long Island and my desk was shaking pretty good. Felt like a train going by, but a much harsher rumble. This is why I can't live in Cali 😂
Awesome professionalism on both sides of the radio button.
Thank you for another amazing video. The controllers did a magnificent job. The pilots weren’t too bad either! All the best from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
That female controller at LGA has had a couple of challenging shifts. First Southwest 147 nearly collided with the control tower and now the earthquake. Maybe a few extra days off for her to recover 🙄
@@einokalonen1313 great idea! Who’s going to suggest this to her bosses?
I was flying helicopter tours in Pennsylvania and heard on the CTAF about planes saying they couldn’t land because of an earthquake. Definitely a first for me to hear.
Kind of like when we get 2 inches of snow here on the west coast everything shuts down and people in the east get a good laugh out of that. Now we're all kind of giggling about the east coast reaction to a minor quake.
After the heavy earthquake in Taiwan, I wonder how ATC handled it in RCTP. Hope everyone is OK.
RCTP is quite far from the center of the quake. For me living approx. 25 miles from RCTP I didn’t even get out of bed. The quake center is closest to RCYU however it only has 2-3 flights a day. Us Taiwanese people are used to shimmers line these, however this was a big one
@@DaveTseng I know it's not next to the epicenter, but I wouldn't have expected it to die down that quickly over just 25 miles. Thanks for the info though!
@@TWCHHK RCTP is approx. 80-100 miles away from the epicenter. Flights were not effected but there are some superficial damage inside the terminal
Impressive so quick to get video out , and impressed with the Air Traffic Controllers - Both of you are true professionals. ;)
That was amazingly fast edit! We were in MD near DC. Accounting offices and lost power for 10 minutes! We were so far away. Respect to Mother Earth.
The controller is nothing short of amazing! Also "copy the... uh... earthquake" sent me😂
That was fast! You're on it!
Gotta love the teamwork from tower to all airport staff and pilots. Those comms were running like a charm.
Very professional from everybody! Nice to hear that instead of incompetence
This is looking like one pretty seismic year.
UA337 eventually diverted to Harrisburg PA (MDT)
I'm from Southern California, so I don't get out of bed for under a 4. A 4.8? Oof, that's a decent shake, depending on how long it lasts. It looks like this one lasted 30 seconds. That's about the magnitude when you start to see some minor damage, but most of that is household goods falling down. What's worrisome is that most of New York City was built before the city adopted earthquake safety provisions (adopted in 1995). There's a lot of wood-frame construction with ornamental masonry facade, which even under non-earthquake conditions occasionally falls down. I wouldn't be surprised if a few towers pop out some windows, but there shouldn't be any major structural damage presuming the building was sound prior to the shaking.
Was it 30 seconds? I knew it was at least 20, but 30 feels right.
@@BlueCyann The reporting I'm reading says "about 30 seconds or so", but they're all quoting the same resident. Depending on your area and the distance from the epicenter, you might not be able to sense the entire duration, or the duration may be prolonged due to rebounding waves.
I'm not sure if there's an official report on the duration yet or if that's even a meaningful question to ask. I can't find the duration in the USGS report, but it could be in there somewhere! They collect a ton of data which is only meaningful to experts.
It was a good shake.. subtle at first that a hard shake for 20 seconds than tapered off. I'm 20 miles south of the epicenter.
My dad was in Texas with a co-worker on a business trip, maybe 45 to 50 years ago. They were on a higher floor, and there was an earthquake. He said the Texans were scared out of their mind and co-worker and him were like 4.0-5.0. They agreed 4.5. He said you could tell that the building was not retrofitted.
I'm from AK, I sleep through 7.0. just because NY has a large population doesn't make it headline news worthy for the entire day. a few years back anchorage had an 8.4 that barely made it into the local papers, much less national headlines.
I wonder if the passengers in the air are told about why they were delayed? I would love to hear the audio during the SF quake in 89. I was there and still traumatized 😂
Good morning, this is your captain speaking. We're going to take a few turns in the merry-go-round while we wait for solid ground to become solid again since we did not bring our off-roading tires today. Please enjoy this scenic view of New York and we'll update you when it's our turn to get off this ride. Thank you.
I was close to the epicenter of a 4.2 one time and the Richter Scale is logarithmic. A 4.8 is definitley cause for concern.
ATC on point!! 👏 👏
Well done ATC!
Great coverage on N90’s earthquake!
You’re really fast. I live near LaGuardia and I was plane spotting a bit when the earthquake happened. Saw several go-arounds. I hope no one was injured😢
I find it unusual for an earthquake to happen in New York, I was on a tour of the Capital Building in D.C when it happened.
Such a shocker. We sleep through those and in central Kansas or Southern California.
It was the largest earthquake recorded within 150 miles since 1950. Also, because the rocks are denser, earthquakes in the eastern US are felt over a much wider area than earthquakes of comparable magnitude in California.
@@thomasquetchenbach4053🙄 I’m sure the Northeast will rebuild
@@LongieR8erIt’s almost as like people in the eastern seaboard aren’t fucking used to earthquakes and they might be surprised! It’s okay, I know that seeing another perspective may be difficult but try to connect the brain neurons
Yeah, we don’t experience earth quakes. Is that surprising?
Wow That's Crazy!!! I'm Here In WNY And The News Website Said That Buffalo NY Felt It And I'm Just North Of It :/
Im in NY, and its funny how you sense it coming before it hits. I was sleeping. And just woke up. I dont wake up after 5 hours of sleep but did (I work nights). I woke up, and felt the tremor, thought it was a truck, then it got stronger, and thought, must be a really heavy truck, and then the nextr tremors removed all doubt. Got into emergency mode, got up. Made sure all was ok, had some damage in my garage though.
But, not huge, but def enough to shake things around, and def big for this area. Ive felt nasty ones before, where you couldnt even stand up. Still, hope everyone doesnt have any damage
I was waiting for this on the edge of my seat. Thanks!
Thanks for your support!
@@VASAviation You're welcome! I was hoping for a barrage of short clips but Philly, EWR/JFK/LGA, HPN, and whatever else, but you did a fine job here.
That controller was awesome!!
I live in the tri-state and I felt all 4.8 of it. My first time experiencing an earthquake and it was scary and cool at the same time.
I was sitting in the United Club lounge and we all felt the shake! Earthquake was last thing we thought, we thought the building was gonna collapse or some heavy man/women was running around!
My utmost respect to you all!
Hay anyone couldn’t complain about these atc guys a great bunch of real professionals
Holy shit you’re fast
I know, right? Dang. v
felt it in central jersey. felt like a chinook was trying to land on top of the store where i work
We felt it up here in Newburgh NY SWF, but we had a c17 doing touch and goes at the time , I thought the rumble was from it 😐
BRAVO TO ALL AT ATC AND EMERGENCY VEHICLES!!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I was there. it was NOT NY, it was epicenter in Whitehouse NJ, miles from NY.
I was just sitting in my house when it started just shaking could hear things rattling around. Love experiencing stuff like that since it’s not normal at all.
Great job by ATC. I was 30 miles away....didn't feel/hear a thing.
I was literally flying out there when it happened. I was coming from Dublin when the First Officer came on the PA. A few gasps came but when we landed and they put their phones off flight mode, it was a musical of emergency text sirens. When I went to Times Square that nite, you wouldn't think there was an earthquake. TG it wasn't anything more serious
NJ resident here, my entire apartment was shaking for a good 20 seconds. Initially it sounded like snow falling off the roof when it begins to melt, but I knew there is no snow and that's when it hit me that it was a quake.
I’m glad my father took the morning flight out of NY this morning! Beat it by just a few hours, lol!
Wow, this controller was really on top of it, getting planes to take off right away from the new location, communicating clearly with everyone. Inspection crews also seemed to be pretty quick to report the runway status, impressive work all around. Now I'm curious to know how this would go in SFO…
ATC: Controllers fasten seatbelts, we're experiencing some turbulence...
Now THAT was funny - - thanks
And all's well that ends well! 👍👍
Meanwhile, the tower folks at LAX use the 4.8 quakes to help stir their coffee! 😂
😂 YUP!
Can someone explain to me why they evacuated the tower for a 4.8 magnitude earthquake?
I live in the area of the earthquake and people here say it was just a shake but nothing serious or alarming. I didn't feel it myself.
Because a tower on the east Coast wasn't built with earthquakes in mind? You heard it on the radio calls, it's super rare, maybe one every 10-15 years and usually not a 4.8...
I'm guessing in case the tower was structurally damaged
Seems like a dangerous overreaction, more likely to cause an unnecessary air disaster
@@mikeL5183yep. Right on the money, this has never happened before to us
ATC Zero in NY?! Wow. Thats some crazy stuff!
Crazy! My sister in Brooklyn texted me earlier when it happened. Pretty good shake, prolly from fracking in Jersey somewhere. Didn't even think bout disruptions to air traffic...seemed like they handled it well and got everyone OTW OK. Thx for ATC upload!
Man, what a grind this makes when something like this happens. Aircraft just start stacking up fast!
This was the strongest earthquake with an epicenter in NJ since 1783. So, as regards airports, not just really rare, but a first. 🙂
I was in school when this happened. My class couldn’t hear or feel anything, but other classes apparently did
That was quick!
NEAT! What a weird morning. I wondered if EWR/LGA/JFK were affected, and I guess I have my answer. Thanks for the fast turnaround!
Sharp people on that tower, kudos
I just heard there have been around ten after shocks. That's a lot of runway inspection while departures are halted or flights continue circling.
It was in fact a pretty good shake! It was very jarring. It rattled my windows and my dog howled!
That controller is awesome! Protect that man at all costs.