{"id":198017,"date":"2024-10-20T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/baffling-scientists-why-did-millions-of-people-feel-shaking-in-new-york-city"},"modified":"2024-10-20T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T01:26:07","slug":"baffling-scientists-why-did-millions-of-people-feel-shaking-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/baffling-scientists-why-did-millions-of-people-feel-shaking-in-new-york-city","title":{"rendered":"Baffling Scientists: Why Did Millions of People Feel Shaking in New York City?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/baffling-scientists-why-did-millions-of-people-feel-shaking-in-new-york-city2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Tewksbury earthquake\u2019s minimal local damage but widespread impact was due to its rupture direction, funneling shaking from New Jersey towards New York City, with the anomaly highlighted in studies on seismic energy distribution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A magnitude 4.8 earthquake in Tewksbury startled millions across the U.S. East Coast, marking the strongest recorded tremor in New Jersey since 1900.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers noted something else unusual about the earthquake: why did so many people 40 miles away in New York City report strong shaking, while damage near the earthquake\u2019s epicenter appeared minimal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tewksbury earthquake\u2019s minimal local damage but widespread impact was due to its rupture direction, funneling shaking from New Jersey towards New York City, with the anomaly highlighted in studies on seismic energy distribution. A magnitude 4.8 earthquake in Tewksbury startled millions across the U.S. East Coast, marking the strongest recorded tremor in New Jersey [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}