3.8 magnitude earthquake hits Buffalo, wakes region with boom shortly after 6 a.m.

The Buffalo News ^ | Feb 6, 2023 | Mark Sommer

[Mr. K]

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 3.8 magnitude earthquake at 6:15 a.m. centered on the northeastern edge of West Seneca, near the Lackawanna border.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said shortly after 6:30 a.m. that he had spoken with his county emergency services department and confirmed the initial reports showed the quake had been "felt as far north as Niagara Falls and as south as Orchard Park."

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown told WBEN Radio that no injuries have been reported.

“It was a heavy vibration that shook the whole house. It was crazy,” said Jim LiPuma of Academy Road.

[Mr. K]

Rare earthquake in New York

[FreeperCell]

My attention you have.

[fhayek]

I thought my dog had jumped on my bed. But then there was no dog. Weird, I thought, as I went back to sleep.

[SirFishalot]

Our Governor will no doubt blame it on climate change due to natural gas usage and move her timeline up to outlaw gas heat and stoves.

[airborne]

Residual quake from the big ones that hit Turkey?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11718001/SECOND-mega-earthquake-hits-Turkey-hours-record-7-8-magnitude-tremor-kills-1-400-people.html

[Sacajaweau]

Not as rare as you think....

[Sacajaweau]

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[jimjohn]

That’s what we’re thinking. woke folks up here in the Niagara Falls area.

[AirForceMom]

Was pretty loud, shook the whole damn house. Hell of a way to wake up, no coffee needed..unless it had a little something extra in it.

[Vaquero]

It’s the uplifting of land around the Great Lakes still bouncing back after the receding glaciers 12000 years ago.

It’s really a thing.

[Karliner]

Obviously fracking and weather balloons displacing the [redacted for stupidity]

[Baldwin77]

I’ve felt a few small ones when I live in NYS. (lived there for for 20+ yrs.)

[sauropod]

.

[hardspunned]

In Buffalo? Is this Putin’s fault too?

[mykroar]

Yes. And Trump’s, and climate change, and racism, and transphobia, and . . .

[US_MilitaryRules]

The problem is they don’t allow fracking.

[SKI NOW]

It’s the uplifting of land around the Great Lakes still bouncing back after the receding glaciers 12000 years ago. It’s really a thing.

Yes, besides earthquakes the affect on lake water levels.

[markman46]

here in calif a 3.5 would not even be noticed.

[dfwgator]

That’s what we’re thinking. woke folks up here in the Niagara Falls area.

NIAGARA FALLS! Slowly I turned.....step....by....step....inch....by.....inch....