We just had earthquake in NY around 11 am the house was shaking… I thought if I see things falling down off the walls like framed photos im running

@cherokeepatti me too. I don’t remember being this friggen scared.. never felt earth shaking windows walls my bed that was not funny… and the worst part … it was not stopping. I thought it were going to be one second long or three… my mother said it was going on for a whole minute. Some people can easily have a heart attack. I heard ambulances 🚑 sirens drive by soon after… It was too long though for just a tunnel collapse… I think it was a real earthquake and just a beginning… Probably will be some reoccurrences… that was one if the craziest things I went through so far in life

@InHeaven A minute is quite long for an earthquake. The rolling earthquake we had was a little over a minute. I had time to get up from the computer and run outside a couple times in a panic and come back inside because I didn’t know how much worse it would get and didn’t want anything collapsing on me.

@InHeaven I guess it's a perspective thing. I grew up in earthquake country. I've been in two 7+ earthquakes, and more than a few in the high 5 to 6+ range.

@InHeaven Staten Island ? Are you Italian or Italian ? Lol

@AthrillatheHunt lol not Italian but half of S I is Italian

@InHeaven Eye-talian. I used to live there

@cherokeepatti who knows

@MrBrownstone after this one, physicallly,yess, but I was ready to run out if the things would start falling down. The shaking was serious ( not just at the level of “ I felt that”)and not something to just get your attention as some wise guys claim here… I got scared to death. Hours later still can’t calm down. It was the shock of my life

@InHeaven Glad you are ok.

@InHeaven was this your first earthquake experience? The first one I felt like I was going to pass out. There was a loud BOOM! And about 3 seconds later the house shook, it felt like a giant grabbed the house and was trying to shake it. I went to the bathroom and my face was white, it was that scary. Dogs were barking all around the neighborhood. I went outside to see if I could see smoke. We live about 14 miles from an Air Force based and my first thought was that a plane crashed…I also thought it could be another act of terrorism but closer than the Murrah building… I saw neighbors looking up and around and asked them if they knew anything. One said “We think it was an earthquake”. The second one was different…it was like a rolling earthquake and it lasted a long time. The third one just about bounced me out of bed one morning. Each one unnerved me. We had a lot of small ones. They usually sounded and felt like a big strong gust of wind hit the east side of the house where the sun room is (a lot of big windows there). But I’d check later & it was earthquakes. The birds would fall off their perches at night and flap around in their cages scared and those were also earthquakes that we didn’t feel.