New York HIT BY 4.8 Magnitude EARTHQUAKE | Control Tower Evacuated!

EDIT 1: New video https://youtu.be/ZP5SOp1IfiE?si=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

Guy in the tower with some Mozart level conducting of the situation. Well done

I love the situational awareness that the tower controller provided by just listing the order in which he'll send 'em out. Very professional.

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.

That tower guy was on the ball. Kudos to him.

Huge respect to that tower controller. Calm in a crisis. Definitely what you need in that situation!

ATC was great! All of the pilots and ATC were professionals.

Big excitement in NY metro area. People living in earthquake areas don't even get out of bed for a 4.8.

That controllers sequencing was perfect a don't and done in a efficient and timely manner great job by the controllers

The lady from EWR did an excellent job! Very professional & super head strong. Major respect for all the workers. 🙏🏾

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!

There you go again with a FAST update & post! Thanks. New Yorkers are freaking out. Maybe, surprised is a better adjective, maybe; my bad...

Awesome job by ATC. EWR, JFK, LGA and N90 best in the business!

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

Controller did an excellent job -- I could tell there were a lot of distractions going on in the cab and he powered though it!

I was on the can in the Newark airport when this happened. Lucky to have made it out alive.

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.

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 😂

Thanks from Germany your fast work. You should work for the NTSB with your videos.