I’ve lived in CA since 1962 and never got used to them. Most people here would shrug at a 4.8 but they all scare me. I think our last stronger ones were in 2019 just a day apart…6.4 and 7.1.

Shrugger here. I don't even remember the Ridgecrest quake Chloebud mentioned, other than the whole talk regarding foreshocks (the 6.4 was a foreshock and the main quake was the following day, which freaked some people out, though it's a standard pattern). What you describe is normal for a quake of that magnitude, not centered right near by. Quakefeed (an awesome app) shows the epicenter in New Jersey, but shallow, which one feels more strongly. So, aftershocks will come, but you might not feel them, or this could be a foreshock to something stronger, but probably not massive. Earthquakes are so much better than destructive weather! It lasts seconds, you're dead or you're not, and you get on with it. :D I don't know if this works in tall buildings, but if it's a roller rather than a jolter, you can watch the sine waves moving across the floor.

…but if it's a roller rather than a jolter, you can watch the sine waves moving across the floor.

@plllog - You might be addressing a question I’ve had all day: The only other earthquake I remember feeling, it felt like the ground was swaying. Almost ike drunken spins. Today’s was just shaking. Are there different types?

Oh, yes, there are indeed, and a great deal of what seems, at least to the non-seismologist like me, to be idiosyncrasy. There are deep epicenters, shallow and in between. There is rock, clay, gravel, and all kinds of other geology. Wave forms are refracted and when they hit each other the effect can be additive (like in math class) or neutralizing. There are minor faults, major faults and the exact edge of the plate. Under your feet or miles out to sea. It's not just the kind of quake at the epicenter, but what it's like when it gets to you. Perception doesn't always match the forms on the sensor readings. There are jolts, shakes, and rollers, plus lots of other descriptors.. Near the epicenter, if it's on land, one can often hear a bang first, I assume because sound travels faster in air than the shockwaves do in earth.

During the last big quake I was in, as I was watching those waves before we lost power (lights) and was identifying by sound what was falling, I was thinking, “Gosh, I’m glad I understand plate techtonics, or I'd be really scared.”

As long as everyone's ok. They showed the statue of Liberty shaking on TV this morning.

Most of the videos I've seen are the camera shaking. There's one, however, which seems to be from high in the statue, which implies that the statue shaking is shaking the camera, but then if you look at where the land meets the water, you can see that the view is moving a lot, and evenly, and it's the camera moving on its holder. No doubt Lady Liberty at least vibrated, and likely did full on shake, but it was too small a quake to produce that amount of visible shaking unless the waveforms joined and increased a lot, just there, which is possible, but not so likely.

Here, I found a report from a California deputy sheriff who was there. His reaction, which he reports as a casual, ”Feels like an earthquake,” and others around him agreeing, seems to indicate that it was pretty mild there. The park service ”evacuated” the visitors, but that's a fraught word for kicked them out. That would be, IMO, from caution, keeping people out until a full safety and damage inspection can be made, and in case a bigger quake might have followed, which could create falling debris and other problems,

https://www.ksbw.com/article/monterey-county-sheriffs-statue-liberty-earthquake-shakes-new-york-california-4-8/60412551

I realize this is a big deal where earthquakes are rare, and several buildings near the epicenter were seriously damaged, and I'm sure other buildings, especially older ones like Liberty, could have issues needing to be found and addressed, which just a bit of vibration can cause let alone full on shaking, but there's a lot of hype. This wasn't a disaster, Just a reminder that Earth's crust is constantly moving.

We had very high winds and flooding rains this past week. And the week before. Our truck back window shattered with winds picking up the back heavy cover and slaming it into the window. Windshield cracked due to a fallen tree limb.

City cameras are always shaking...but this event was dead calm/sunny, then a strong shaking rumble immediately.

I actually did not thing that much of it without any immediate damage reported. We live near an elementary school so the driving mph is very low/slow....snail pace. Felt like a run-away tractor trailer at high speed hitting pot holes.

I live in a glass house. Glanced outside and all trees were 'shaking' out of the blue on such a calm day. I just thought it was a freak wind gust.

Any unusual weather event should be taken seriously. Thankful that no buildings collapsed.

Every time i drive through the BatteryTunnel i think of StormSandy. NYC shut down the city.

A few days before the storm hit the city shut everything down. That mile long+ tunnel filled with water.

I'm sure many are thankful their buildings are built strong to support strong winds, etc

So call it 'mild' until you are in it and not sure if it might be devestating 30 seconds later.

Absolutely. And by the richter it was moderate, not mild. But that's after the fact with the reports in. During the quake, you don't know. That's why I looked at the report from the Californian. People native to the quake zone are rightly, um, shaken up. And weather is often so much worse. My point about the camera is that the kind of camera that shakes in the wind will shake a lot more than what it's attached to in a quake.

I agree and i was not debating the intesity. Any camera high up will exagerate the 'wiggle' event. Like i said, i was not at all concerned until i heard it was a 'quake'. Explained our experiences. Where i was standing in the kitchen was over a solid base built into the rock ledge 40 yrs ago. The rumbling was over the half of our home that shook more intense on that end.

Some foundations may be compromised. Not immediately noticed.

“It's not just the kind of quake at the epicenter, but what it's like when it gets to you.”

Some good explaining in your posts, plllog!