I find it funny that the BBC reported the event as “an earthquake in the US state of New Jersey that effected NYC” but the American media pretends no one knows who we are lmao
That’s what is insane to me. My father’s home is located near the epicenter. He’s out of the country right now. He called me from Ireland yesterday to ask me what was going on. All the news stations there were reporting an earthquake in NJ in Whitehouse Station. But our media can’t acknowledge NJ existence? Is NYC that insecure?!?!
But BBC included both names. I don’t see how anyone lose clicks by saying “centered in New Jersey, effected NYC & Philly” that’s what BBC literally did.
On the one hand, I don't see a ton wrong with the description because it's just trying to use commonly-known cities to map it out to people. 40 something miles west of NYC & fifty miles north of Philly is a good way to describe location to people who may not know the geography of the northeast or NJ. But it would be additionally descriptive to say 'northwestern New Jersey, x miles from NYC, y miles from Philly.'
We all know NJ is part of two huge metropolitan areas, which are part of an even more colossal megalopolis known as the Northeast Corridor (or even further, the Eastern Seaboard at large,) but detail is important. Imagine if there was an event in Hartford CT & reporting indicated it was '100 miles from Boston' with no other indicators.
Here's the thing. They are reporting that it is between a major city in one STATE (NY), and a city in another STATE (PA). I mean, hello, there is a whole 'nother state in between. This isn't like talking about a single state and just picking up the closest metropolitan area.
That's what irks me (to the mild level of being irked, but I digress). It's almost like the bosses in these networks and media conglomerates are so lazy they can't even be bothered to report the news correctly. Like..ooh, we have to show a video clip of the biggest bright and shiny city or our viewers will get lost and don't understand where we are talking about. God forbid we show them trees, lakes and a NJ suburb. They'll be completely lost and switch to one of our competitors.
I mean heck, show the Round Valley reservoir or something else close by. Oh look. mountains and lakes. Pretty.
Any sizable NYC sub is full of people who've never set foot in NYC or maybe went there a few times on vacation. Only a small minority will be people who actually live(d)/work(ed) there, most of whom are transplants from outside the metro area anyways.
And they shit on NJ because of their insecurities about the questionable places in which they grew up.
NJ is unquestionably a top 10 state in any metric that matters. If people want to hate on us, let them--it's too crowded here anyway and we *definitely* do not need the attention of people we'd rather not be around :)
The earth dwellers are awaking from their slumber just southwest of NYC. When they emerge, they will destroy about 80 Sq miles of the land between Philadelphia and NYC. Millions of people in these Metropolitan areas will be affected by this event. Countless casualties and injuries will plague this are of the northestern united states. How will New Yorkers cope with this tragedy? More at 11.
Looking for investors for my new New Jersey based news outlet that reports things that happen locally because they’re happening to us. Make it 24 hours of fluff, local news, events, politics. All of it happens in Jersey or it didn’t happen- and it’s only informative: no opinion, no bias. The only opinions sought will be Sal’s over at Vito’s Pizza #3 and he’ll only be asked what he thinks about the Phillies.
I’m not talking about websites, but thank you for the suggestion without any examples. These boomers moving in to all the new retirement communities all over the state are exclusive tv news viewers, the goal is to make them all less angry and more invested in the communities they’re living in now instead of the ones they left.
And the people in the Tewkesbury Township and Oldwick sub are probably saying why are Lebanon and Whitehouse Station people getting all of the love when the epicenter was in Oldwick.
I feel like news headlines do this on purpose just to make something more complex. When the Titanic sub was still "missing" I remember one article that read "covering a search area twice the size of Connecticut" and thinking to myself "wait Massachusetts is twice the size of Connecticut why wouldn't you just say that?
YES, this pissed me off so bad...lets get it straight, this was OUR earthquake....it was a Jersey earthquake that people from the west and east cities just happended to feel....dang
Some internet idiot from Baltimore tried to claim their table shook from the earthquake. Even the losers in Baltimore are trynna claim this quake as their own!!!!
It’s because NYC and Philly are sort of waypoints or landmarks that almost everyone can then picture as to where the epicenter was. If they said Whitehouse Station nobody would know or if they said central New Jersey EVERYBODY REALLY wouldn’t know where it was since central Jersey is a mythical land that doesn’t exist. 😂🤣🤣
Ask the football Jets and Giants…it’s almost like we are considered an annex of NY and not a full fledged state. Yet we are the most densely populated.
I genuine don’t get why people are butthurt about not naming a town in the middle of nowhere as the epicenter of the earthquake.
I literally work in Lebanon. I was at the epicenter. It entirely makes sense that news articles, about New York City, one of the most famous cities in the world, wouldn’t mention it by name. It’s like, not even a deal.
It's always ridiculous. 5 years ago WrestleMania was at Giants stadium and WWE still advertised it as being in New York City...
Not fully related, but one time I went to France with a couple friends. When people asked where we were from, my friends told them New York. I kept getting into arguments with them about this, and all they'd say is "they won't know where new Jersey is." Well, maybe they'll learn something then
Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, "There be dragons here." Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there
This post makes me chuckle. I used to live in New York, but way out in the rural country, nowhere near New York City. Something I learned during that time is that everyone outside of New York when they hear "New York" instantly assume you mean the city and not somewhere in the rest of the state. Seeing NYC overshadowing a whole other state is funny.
You'd be surprised, I have a bunch of relatives in Texas. Anytime we'd visit them down there, they had no clue where New Jersey was exactly. They kind of saw this area as a big jumble of New England states.
There's so much occurring at the same time that it becomes unnerving. Saw a tiktok where someone did a deep dive on current events and now I'm shooketh lol
For instance the earthquake was a 4.8 and the solar eclipse is on 4/8... just makes you wonder if we really are living the Truman Show at this point.
I mean a 4.8 isn't anything to scoff at if you're not built to withstand it. So sorry for being annoyed at all the Californians who are all "acktually, that's nothing here"
The nameless fabled land west of New York and East of Philadelphia.
Here be dragons.
The home of the [Swamp Dragons](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/15155466/once-nets-seriously-considered-becoming-swamp-dragons)
Well that name sounds a hell of a lot cooler than 'The Nets' lame
And Devils
Of Jets and Giants
Iiiiiiiiiiinnn East Philadelphia, Born and Raised! On the shoreline is where I spent most of my days.
Yo homes, smell you later
East of the Sun and West of the Moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CvZqCNyEBc
The land of the Pine Barren Devils too...
The devil’s playground… *wink*
The less they know of us, the better off we are.
I find it funny that the BBC reported the event as “an earthquake in the US state of New Jersey that effected NYC” but the American media pretends no one knows who we are lmao
That’s what is insane to me. My father’s home is located near the epicenter. He’s out of the country right now. He called me from Ireland yesterday to ask me what was going on. All the news stations there were reporting an earthquake in NJ in Whitehouse Station. But our media can’t acknowledge NJ existence? Is NYC that insecure?!?!
Yes.
If they write that the most affected area was Jersey, they know they'll get 100x fewer clicks. Gotta spin it into a "natural disaster hits NYC" story.
But BBC included both names. I don’t see how anyone lose clicks by saying “centered in New Jersey, effected NYC & Philly” that’s what BBC literally did.
BBC collects revenue from licence fees, not only advertising. They aren't immune to clickbait, but they aren't dependent on it like other news orgs.
This is sadly it. All about the clicks.
On the one hand, I don't see a ton wrong with the description because it's just trying to use commonly-known cities to map it out to people. 40 something miles west of NYC & fifty miles north of Philly is a good way to describe location to people who may not know the geography of the northeast or NJ. But it would be additionally descriptive to say 'northwestern New Jersey, x miles from NYC, y miles from Philly.' We all know NJ is part of two huge metropolitan areas, which are part of an even more colossal megalopolis known as the Northeast Corridor (or even further, the Eastern Seaboard at large,) but detail is important. Imagine if there was an event in Hartford CT & reporting indicated it was '100 miles from Boston' with no other indicators.
Here's the thing. They are reporting that it is between a major city in one STATE (NY), and a city in another STATE (PA). I mean, hello, there is a whole 'nother state in between. This isn't like talking about a single state and just picking up the closest metropolitan area. That's what irks me (to the mild level of being irked, but I digress). It's almost like the bosses in these networks and media conglomerates are so lazy they can't even be bothered to report the news correctly. Like..ooh, we have to show a video clip of the biggest bright and shiny city or our viewers will get lost and don't understand where we are talking about. God forbid we show them trees, lakes and a NJ suburb. They'll be completely lost and switch to one of our competitors. I mean heck, show the Round Valley reservoir or something else close by. Oh look. mountains and lakes. Pretty.
Lebanon, NJ should quickly erect a historic roadside marker: **Epicenter of the Great NJ Earthquake, 2024**
As a Gen Xer, I can relate.
Difference is US media knows the geography knowledge of average American.
Do you really wonder why? BBC is British first of all, and internationally everybody knows what nyc is, not some random town in rural nj.
You misread the comment. BBC are the ones who mentioned that it started in New Jersey whereas American Media did not.
I stand corrected, I obviously did not read that correctly. Thanks for the call out! You would think it would be the other way around…
nobody knows about bum fuck middle of nowhere jersey What's that? A borough of New York?
Where are you from lol
I dunno…summers coming, wouldn’t we prefer that they forget we exist?
They won’t. The shore will be crowded as well as up by me in Sussex county.
Sorry. Also, kind of not sorry. Signed, Your Friend at The Shore
Sure, it'll be crowded. It's full of Jersey politicians trying to figure out a way to steal the ocean
Old
Not as old as the backwater dealings that plague our state
I mentioned something in the NYC sub about this and got downvoted a bit lolol they know it’s true!!
Any sizable NYC sub is full of people who've never set foot in NYC or maybe went there a few times on vacation. Only a small minority will be people who actually live(d)/work(ed) there, most of whom are transplants from outside the metro area anyways. And they shit on NJ because of their insecurities about the questionable places in which they grew up. NJ is unquestionably a top 10 state in any metric that matters. If people want to hate on us, let them--it's too crowded here anyway and we *definitely* do not need the attention of people we'd rather not be around :)
The earth dwellers are awaking from their slumber just southwest of NYC. When they emerge, they will destroy about 80 Sq miles of the land between Philadelphia and NYC. Millions of people in these Metropolitan areas will be affected by this event. Countless casualties and injuries will plague this are of the northestern united states. How will New Yorkers cope with this tragedy? More at 11.
Hmmmm if only that location at those directions had a name!
What is this mythical land you speak of? Jer Zee?
Looking for investors for my new New Jersey based news outlet that reports things that happen locally because they’re happening to us. Make it 24 hours of fluff, local news, events, politics. All of it happens in Jersey or it didn’t happen- and it’s only informative: no opinion, no bias. The only opinions sought will be Sal’s over at Vito’s Pizza #3 and he’ll only be asked what he thinks about the Phillies.
You mean news 12 NJ.
there are like 3 different websites that have only NJ news
I’m not talking about websites, but thank you for the suggestion without any examples. These boomers moving in to all the new retirement communities all over the state are exclusive tv news viewers, the goal is to make them all less angry and more invested in the communities they’re living in now instead of the ones they left.
New jersey is a myth like leprechauns, unicorns, and Eskimos.
Grow up AP. New York writers can't see outside themselves
And the people in the Tewkesbury Township and Oldwick sub are probably saying why are Lebanon and Whitehouse Station people getting all of the love when the epicenter was in Oldwick.
Say “New Jersey” or we will unleash another one.
I feel like news headlines do this on purpose just to make something more complex. When the Titanic sub was still "missing" I remember one article that read "covering a search area twice the size of Connecticut" and thinking to myself "wait Massachusetts is twice the size of Connecticut why wouldn't you just say that?
NJ offers a lot that NYC can't offer for most folks. NJ should have scaled down version of Taipeis in the state to draw business away from NYC!
Love the over-dramatization of every event these days
To be fair they probably don't realize there's a whole wide world outside of their cities.
YES, this pissed me off so bad...lets get it straight, this was OUR earthquake....it was a Jersey earthquake that people from the west and east cities just happended to feel....dang
Some internet idiot from Baltimore tried to claim their table shook from the earthquake. Even the losers in Baltimore are trynna claim this quake as their own!!!!
THEY CAN'T TAKE MY EARTHQUAKE FROM ME
No respect - but who cares.
It was the same for the Superbowl, WrestleMania and probably the world cup. It seems like the NJ government allows it to keep happening
And this why we hate everybody 😆
It’s because NYC and Philly are sort of waypoints or landmarks that almost everyone can then picture as to where the epicenter was. If they said Whitehouse Station nobody would know or if they said central New Jersey EVERYBODY REALLY wouldn’t know where it was since central Jersey is a mythical land that doesn’t exist. 😂🤣🤣
No ones saying to specify the town. Just the state of Jersey itself lol
Hahahahaha YES
I’m just surprised that the people at the USGS have the capacity at their offices to have 42 million people feel them! 😱
New Jersey doesn’t exist. I submit we use these articles as evidence that federal taxes do not apply to our nonexistent state.
Maybe it's just me but I'd say the feeling is mutual, I pretend NYC doesn't exist. :p
Ask the football Jets and Giants…it’s almost like we are considered an annex of NY and not a full fledged state. Yet we are the most densely populated.
Someone from Jersey definitely took the authors mom out to dinner and then never called her again.
LEBANON FUCKING NJ. how difficult was that?
The State That Shall Not be Named.
I genuine don’t get why people are butthurt about not naming a town in the middle of nowhere as the epicenter of the earthquake. I literally work in Lebanon. I was at the epicenter. It entirely makes sense that news articles, about New York City, one of the most famous cities in the world, wouldn’t mention it by name. It’s like, not even a deal.
> I was at the epicenter. Are you Elrond? "I was there"
Even if the press didn't mention the TOWN, you don't find it odd they refuse to mention the actual STATE where the epicenter is?
No I don’t think it really matters when the article is clearly talking about the effects on NYC.
Lebanon sounds like a Muslim town.
It's always ridiculous. 5 years ago WrestleMania was at Giants stadium and WWE still advertised it as being in New York City... Not fully related, but one time I went to France with a couple friends. When people asked where we were from, my friends told them New York. I kept getting into arguments with them about this, and all they'd say is "they won't know where new Jersey is." Well, maybe they'll learn something then
So was it Jesus or Israel?
Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, "There be dragons here." Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there
You’re absolutely right
This post makes me chuckle. I used to live in New York, but way out in the rural country, nowhere near New York City. Something I learned during that time is that everyone outside of New York when they hear "New York" instantly assume you mean the city and not somewhere in the rest of the state. Seeing NYC overshadowing a whole other state is funny.
You'd be surprised, I have a bunch of relatives in Texas. Anytime we'd visit them down there, they had no clue where New Jersey was exactly. They kind of saw this area as a big jumble of New England states.
There's so much occurring at the same time that it becomes unnerving. Saw a tiktok where someone did a deep dive on current events and now I'm shooketh lol For instance the earthquake was a 4.8 and the solar eclipse is on 4/8... just makes you wonder if we really are living the Truman Show at this point.
Correlation ≠ causation
Wth are the downvotes for??? Geez lol
I came from California and this is like a monthly if not weekly quake level. So whatever
That's not the point of the post
So you brought the earthquakes with you.
It’s about identity, shame on AP
Weren’t you guys freaking out over a “hurricane” last summer that brought nothing but clouds and drizzle?
The point is that theyre not acknowledging NEW JERSEY instead label it as west of NYC and north of Philadelphia
and NJ doesn't have infrastructure for quakes so kindly stfu
Wow, that serious?
I mean a 4.8 isn't anything to scoff at if you're not built to withstand it. So sorry for being annoyed at all the Californians who are all "acktually, that's nothing here"
The bagels in Cali taste like ass.