3.8 Magnitude Earthquake Rattles WNY

In 65 years I can remember only two small rumbles in the NYC area. There's nothing more disturbing than feeling the Earth shake under your feet no matter how small it may be.

The plates are shifting hard right now , there was a massive 7.8 in turkey , we can expect to see several more similar over the next week or so

Natural disasters, rumors of war... crazy times right now

Snow blizzards and earthquakes, you folks are having a rough winter! Prayers for everyone's safety.

Native Californian here, yep there are all kinds. Rolling jolting, wavy. Some sound like a train like the 87 Whittier Narrows, or like everything is cracking like the Recent LaHabra quake. Always scary and never have gotten used to them ❤

I remember the quick jolt that made me think a truck hit my house in 2015 in Michigan -- It was a 4.2 magnitude, at a depth of 3.7 miles, centered about 5 miles south of Galesburg, located in south central Michigan, close to the Indiana border and just over 50 miles southeast from where I live. This was felt all the way up near Grand Rapids. Earthquakes are rare here, just like in western New York, but they do happen. Our strongest one was a 4.6 in 1947. My heart goes out to the people who experience massive quakes, like the one that just happened in Turkey. Very scary.

Here in Lebanon the earthquake woke us up at 3:10 am the whole ground was shaking it really felt like a nightmare and it lasted about 1minute till it went away but the second time was more subtle it was 4.8 magnitude earthquake

I live on the outskirts of buffalo, kind of near Marilla. I suddenly woke up to what I thought was my house partially collapsing. Once it stopped, I was confused as hell, and I then heard my sister opening her door to ask what happened, giving me the courage to open my door asking what happened. She thought a car crashed into the house. I ended up sleeping with her out of fear, lol. 2 major snowstorms, 1 a blizzard, Damar Hamlin, bills lose in playoffs not going to the Superbowl, and now an earthquake. Can't get any worse, can it?

I experienced the two tremors in the 60s. First I had just got home from school. I was downstairs and my older brother was upstairs in his room working out with free weights. All of a sudden I heard a loud noise maybe about ten seconds long. I figured my brother had dropped his weights so I ran upstairs. My brother had obviously not dropped anything and we figured it was a tremor. We were aware there was a fault line in the area. The next day a couple classmates who lived in the opposite direction as me told me about a St Bernard that loved kids and we were all familiar with him as he would run up to us for petting and to play. He started to run up to them and all of a sudden he turned around and ran away yipping. They looked at each other wondering what was wrong. Within a few seconds they felt the quake. Apparently the dog sensed it first.

I generally sleep through earthquakes of this size too but, then again, the ground is different over there than it is in California and you all tend to feel them more readily and in a larger radius. I almost didn't feel the first of the Ridgecrest earthquakes because I thought it was my fan vibrating the bed until the very end of the earthquake. It happens.

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword"

I was like 4 when I felt my first earthquake but my mom had already told me about them. So I looked around the playroom I was in, noticed that the entire room was shaking and so I realized it must be an earthquake. The friend who was in there with me thought she was going to die but I just did what my mom had said to do when I felt one of these earthquakes and so I got her to go to a relatively safe spot with me. If you know about earthquakes and that they could happen in your area, it makes them less scary. Yes, you will always still get an adrenaline rush but being able to figure out what's going on sooner rather than later reduces the level of anxiety that you feel.

These rattling earthquakes instead of the bouncy ones are so damaging. Back in 1983 I was in Popayan, Colombia and in the middle of the Holy Week, at 8:10 a.m. Holy Thursday, the ground shacked like in the videos but with 5.2 intensity and lasted 18 seconds. Those were the longer 18 seconds in my life. The city got destroyed.

I grew up on the west coast I have been thru many earthquakes & I have to say this seemed like an explosion & NOT an e.q. Plus the animals reactions weren't typical of those who experience e.q's. Our many dogs, cats, horses, etc. would ALL start really reacting, whining & barking, meowing, whinnying & all of them running as if REALLY startled. Even the chickens & ducks knew ahead of time. They'd all start this behavior a few seconds before we could notice anything resembling a quake. Another thing is that where the e.q's. are located they're different. Some move in a rolling motion like waves on the ocean where others shake & jerk & yet others feel like strikes coming from deep in the earth in a pounding type of sensation. I guess you have to go thru several quakes to understand, ya gotta be there. The strongest 1 was a 7.2 on the Richter Scale & afterwards we had 100's of aftershocks that followed for days. They truly make you realize just how tiny & helpless we are & how life is not under our control like we imagine it is. It also makes a person of faith lean on the Lord & know HE'S ultimately in control & that brings us such peace in the midst of the chaos, P.T.L.!

Great reporting Patrick. Hello from Minnesota ❤

Hello from California just want to let you know that there is always noise before an earthquake. It’s usually like a Hum

I've only felt one earthquake about 10 years ago. I was in Jersey but it actually happened in Virginia. I was in my yard and everything got wavy and everyone's windows rattled. Odd sensation. I couldn't imagine living in California where they're much more common.

Would it be possible to feel and hear this quake in the lower northern peninsula of Michigan? I ask be because around that time we heard and felt a very quick bomb like noise and very quick vibration, loud enough to startle us and jump up and then it stops.

I was within 3 miles of the epicenter of the 7.1 Loma Prieta earthquake. It lasted FOREVER and the movement was up and down, up and down. I was trying to walk to a door frame and it was nearly impossible. No electricity, gas, or water available for three days. Lines around the block for groceries or bottled water. Stock up folks. Always be ready.

I live in California now and have gone through a lot of earthquakes since living here for 32 yrs, but I was born and raised in upstate NY and we had several earthquakes that I know of growing up in NY state as well, and some of them started with a loud roaring sound or just a jolt to let you know earthquakes do happen in New York state...