When an ominous rumbling made its way through my apartment on the morning of April 5, my first thought was that I left some large, clunky object in my dryer. My second thought was to check Twitter. The website confirmed my embarrassingly-delayed suspicion: the East Coast had experienced an earthquake.
A 4.8 on the Richter scale, the earthquake happened near Lebanon, New Jersey. (Apparently NJ has fault lines?!) The rare seismic event was felt in Boston, Philadelphia and New Haven. But in an effort to make it completely about us, New Yorkers have been tweeting their asses off all morning. I can’t wait for Californians to wake up and roast us within an inch of our lives.
If I’ve learned something about myself today, it’s that, in the face of natural disasters, I will turn to Twitter for answers. So, here are the best tweet reactions to the earthquake that shook Brooklyn to its core.
Tweets About That Earthquake
Girl did NYC just have an earthquake?
— Milan A. Miller, M.A. (@itsmilanalicia) April 5, 2024
You’re telling me I’m paying nyc rent prices just to be on the same tectonic plate as Philly and Boston? I’m feeling sick
— Brandon Follick (@follickacid) April 5, 2024
Twitter… where I get all my news 👍#earthquake pic.twitter.com/77MiKBohVR
— FSUBrando🍢 (@FSUBrando) April 5, 2024
Just dropped something really really heavy sorry everyone
— Claire Penis (@ZeroSuitCamus) April 5, 2024
Everyone in NY just now. #earthquake pic.twitter.com/Xo68kzNXvC
— Andrew LaSane (@laptop_lasane) April 5, 2024
did i just feel a fucking earthquake in NYC? pic.twitter.com/hHvgT1dHT1
— anania (@Anania00) April 5, 2024
earthquake…solar eclipse…beyoncé album….what’s next
— noella 👾 (@yonoella) April 5, 2024
Ugh, just experienced my first earthquake and now I have to switch bodies with my mom pic.twitter.com/TCUcN4psKp
— carson (@CarsonMlnarik) April 5, 2024
me not knowing where to run after the earthquake #earthquake pic.twitter.com/PkwKRjo4MA
— left on seen (@Imakemyownshit) April 5, 2024
eric adams is going to put another 50,000 cops in the subway with the mandate of shooting the earthquake
— maya kosoff (@mekosoff) April 5, 2024
I AM FINE
— Empire State Building (@EmpireStateBldg) April 5, 2024
Train just stopped in the middle of a tunnel and sat for a second. Somebody said “There was an earthquake.” Nobody said anything for a second as the train kept sitting and a guy goes “Man, fuck this. I’m late for work.”
— Jason Diamond (@imjasondiamond) April 5, 2024
the woman was too stunned to speak pic.twitter.com/kZCyKuPkaG
— maha (@mahaaaay) April 5, 2024
me getting the “aftershock” alert about the earthquake and having no fucking clue what it means pic.twitter.com/hhYBKLOgCh
— Betches (@betchesluvthis) April 5, 2024
https://x.com/coldhealing/status/1776256053212061752turns out 4.8 actually is pretty big
— The Ginger Swindler (@lilydsmith) April 5, 2024
turns out 4.8 actually is pretty big
— The Ginger Swindler (@lilydsmith) April 5, 2024
