Near Whitehouse, New Jersey this morning at 10:23 UTC, a 4.7 magnitued Earthquake, 7.0 km, NNE at 4.7 km in depth.
Earthquake 4.8It was so weird to feel and see movement, I sent in a report to the United States Geological Society (USGS). Then I checked their earthquake make to see a red dot! There actually was an earthquake at the time I felt it.
My symptoms include no sleep at night, wide awake like insomnia episode from one to multiple nights in a row. It is going on a week since I slept before 5 AM. When I wake up after a strong earthquake, I feel very rested, cozy, lighter. That hasn't happened this week.
I also have physical sensations that range in intensity (smooth - edgy), vertigo, bed, chair or ground swaying, and a feeling of passing out.
2024 6.0 and higher, significant earthquakes:
Note, all are in the southwestern Pacific Ocean Ring of Fire
April
5th 6.8 Northern Mariana Island (Pacific Ocean)
3rd 6.4 Taiwan
2nd 7.4 Taiwan
March
27th 6.7 Vanuatu (Pacific Ocean)
27th 6.4 Vanuatu
23rd 6.9 Papua New Guinea
22nd 6.4 Indonesia
16th 6.8 Macquarie Island Region
That's a lot of shaking going on for Earth. I haven't read an analysis report, whether this is an increase, normal activity phase or whatever.
From what I have read about humans predicting earthquakes, there is no scientific evidence to explain why or what is going on in humans. I myself cannot predict when an earthquake is going to happen. There have been times when I have said there is an earthquake going on because I have a symptom as it happens, not before.
An earthquake can be on the other side of the Earth from my location. That range of distance is creepy because when the tectonic plates shift, rock grinding against rock, sound traveling over 3000 miles doesn't fit what I know about science. The Earth geomagnetic field makes sense to me. I believe Earth is a living system, not just parts making up the whole.
There's probably thousand of folks that pay no attention to a brief wooziness now and then.
On the prediction aspect of earthquakes, I believe that folks with the ability to see into the future can predict an earthquake to the region, but maybe not the date and time. I know of no study of such a phenomena or project to increase human earthquake predictability.
I daily, sometimes check multiple times the USGS earthquake map. More this last 12 months or so because there's a feeling I have to do that. If I ever have a significant strong feeling there is going to be a major earthquake in a specific area, then I would report it through the appropriate channels. The scientists can do what they will with the information. My guess is there are enough scientists that won't be dismissive that maybe the report will help in some way. I hope someday there is a reporting procedure for folks like me to report our symptoms.
Today's earthquake in New Jersey has thousands of reports from folks sent in.
Did you feel the New Jersey earthquake?
Do you have symptom experiences?
P.S.
National Academy of Sciences of the USA
I was not aware of the quake until I read another blog. Then I read yours. I imagine it takes time to reach some level of comfort with your body’s reaction to the shifting plates. I was not aware some people are sensitive to such movement. Fascinating really! Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteMarie,
DeleteI saw on TV years ago a group in California, (no surprise there) that meets at least once a year. They looked heavy on the hippie side. I added a link to a study.
Having lived in New Zealand I've plenty of experience of earthquake and volcanic activity but I'be never been aware of any subliminal effects.
ReplyDeleteGraham,
DeleteFor sure, the New Zealand region has a very strong earthquake activity.
Subliminal effects can be so brief, folks might not notice.
The reason I notice is because in the summer of 1967, the shaking too strong for me not to.
I did a few videos of the earthquake today. I was at work one time and one hit here in Michigan. It rattled all of our phones on our desks. It was weird. Hopefully no damage like in Taiwan. Janice
ReplyDeleteJanice,
DeleteEarthquakes are scary. So far I haven't read reports of damage in New Jersey. I read there may be a 5.0 in the next week.
Once something moves, then aftershocks and other earthquakes can happen.
I live about 45 minutes from the epicenter, and we had shaking, whole house rocking, a bit scary. My heart beat differently, briefly, then resumed normal operations.
ReplyDeleteLiz,
DeleteGlad you are all right, and no damage. So close to the epicenter is even more scary!
Your heart beat scramble sounds to me like a possible electromagnetic interference. Just because science doesn't have
data to prove something, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
I was unaware of the earthquake in New Jersey until reading Boud's blog, and now yours. This was interesting reading, May. I've only experienced one earthquake that I can remember - would have been in the mid 1980's. We had some awful neighbors, and I remember I was sitting in the living room reading, when I felt movement and some things in the house shook. My immediate thought was, "What are the neighbors up to NOW!?!" LOL Another time I felt odd movement was during a period I was experiencing vertigo. I was in a building with many people, when I felt the sensation of the floor moving. I asked the person I was talking with if she felt it. She said, no, and asked me what I felt. It was a weird moment. No one else around us seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary. I concluded it was my hypersensitivity at the time to the traffic traveling down the highway that ran alongside the property of the building we were in. I was in that building once a week during the school year for several years. I only felt the vibration/movement that one time.
ReplyDeleteBecki,
DeleteThere's no telling what or where those woozy sensations are from.
Years ago I wrote them down. They didn't tell me much though.
This was interesting to read and even more interesting to see how earthquakes affect you. Fortunately we don't live in an area that has too many of them and the last one I didn't even notice. I worry about our #2 son and his family because he works right near the fault line in BC and the powers that be keep saying that there's a big one coming. Luckily our family moved further inland to get away from the possibility but he still works there.
ReplyDeleteMaryanne,
DeleteThe big one could possibly happen anywhere in North America. California tops the list.
There has been quite a lot about this earthquake on our UK news.
ReplyDeleteThey must be quite scary.
All the best Jan
Jan,
DeleteThe shaking is so slight this far away from the epicenter, it just feels weird.
Many years ago, in Ohio, I was on the top floor of our house, and it felt like the place was going to fall over. That was scary. It was a 5.0 in the Midwest - mid Atlantic states' region.
I'm sorry you felt so bad after the earthquake. Vertigo and dizziness is awful to experience. It's good that you make an effort to get informed about the earthquakes in your area. We had rain this week, and thunder that was so LOUD it startled me.
ReplyDeleteTake care, my friend.
~Sheri
Sheri,
DeleteI was fine after the earthquake. Strange though, I had no vertigo before or after.
I read in the news that others have dizziness after an earthquake. I think that's probably the magnetic wave thing going on as it takes time for the seismic wave created to travel.