Monday morning, Western New York was shaken by an earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale. The epicenter was located near Buffalo. It has been called the biggest in 30 years.
Around 6.15 a.m., the National Weather Service confirmed what many people in the suburbs had already felt: a tremor and swaying earth.
If there is any damage from the earthquake at this point is yet unknown, according to officials.
Canada’s Earthquakes Service also reported feeling the quake, which they measured at a magnitude of 4.2.
Seismologists have located the earthquake’s epicenter at 1.3 miles east-northeast of West Seneca.
According to WYRK’s coverage, Buffalo is located on the Clarendon-Linden fault system, a large network of fault lines in Western New York.
It was reported that people as far away as Niagara Falls and Orchard Park felt the tremor, so Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz turned to Twitter to certify that this was the case. My Buffalo home took the impact like a vehicle had been driven right into it. To put it simply, I leaped out of bed.
Others only recognized its brief significance.
Hundreds of houses were destroyed and over 1,300 people were killed when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit southern Turkey and northern Syria early on Monday morning.
According to Breitbart News, the number of fatalities is anticipated to grow during the day.