Earthquake: Brooklyn Probably Shook More Than Manhattan

Hipsters were right: Brooklyn probably shook more than Manhattan in today's earthquake.

As reported in the Brooklyn Eagle, Dr. Won-Young Kim, senior research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University says that when an earthquake hits the city, Brooklyn's going to shake more than Manhattan.

As we reported last year, Manhattan is resting on rock, while Brooklyn is sitting on sediment. So a tremor you would hardly feel in Manhattan will cause rocking and rolling in Brooklyn.

This seems to be borne out by today's quake, at least if measured by all the Twitter chatter coming from Brooklyn!

Before today, the last big quake in Brooklyn (about a 5.2) took place in 1884.

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