Westchester County, NY- Unusual Occurrence 05-19-23

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Date: 05-19-23
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Multiple 911 centers including lower Westchester County receiving calls relating to a loud noise (possible explosion, earthquake, etc.)

Unconfirmed report of a 2.2 earthquake near Yonkers-Hastings border.
 
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We had a 3.8 up here in Buffalo back in February that also hit in the middle of the night. The sound was loud enough to wake me up as it was coming closer then the house shook for a few seconds. After that you could hear the sound moving away to the East. I 100% thought something pretty large had blown up nearby and we had just felt the shockwave.
 
When I was a Lieutenant in TL-21 one night we, the FDNY got about 200 or so Class 3 automatic alarms from multiple buildings in Midtown Manhattan. Then Captain (Later Battalion Chief) Brian O'Flarrity was on duty in his company Rescue Co. 1, and he had the Manhattan Dispatcher Call the NY University Observatory in Alpine N.Y. on the Hudson Palisades nears the N.Y./N.J. Border. Sure, enough the Observatory said that a small earthquake had stuck Manhattan. That had caused the strange number of automatic building alarms to be triggered. I do not remember what the reading was on the Rechter Scale. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 Retired
 
Very interesting story Cap! That must have caused some instant heartburn on the W. 79th Street Transverse. Seems like they still would have had to respond to every one though. What was done? And today what is the SOP when this happens again?

I thought that the earthquake faults around the New York region were all out in the Atlantic. This wouldn't explain what happened in Midtown even though Midtown has different subsurface geology.
 
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