Bedminster Earthquake

On April 5 there was an earthquake in northern New Jersey. USGS called it the Whitehorse Station earthquake, but I prefer Bedminster for the nearby tax-break cemetery.

USGS has a site for "Did you feel it".

The site has some interesting results.  The site uses the Modified Mercalli Intensity, which measures the local damage or motion at the observer's location.  A single earthquake can have a range of intensities, generally arranged in a bull's eye pattern around the epicenter.  In contrast the earthquake has only a single magnitude, 4.8 for this one.

One person barely felt the earthquake in the Virgin Islands as a magnitude I, the smallest value.

More interesting are the 16 people who felt very large intensities near Mar-a-Lago in Florida.  Perhaps the seismic energy has a special conduit between those locations.