Rattled nerves and windows across the north these this morning, it was the strongest quake to hit the state since america officially secured its independence from Great Britain no deaths are significant levels odamage, t delays a airportsas well as Rail St El Disru Lives and o of theost densely populate areas of theountry in a moment, well look at why smaller earthquakes on the east coast may potentially have a greater impacthan similar ones in the west. But firs polo sanl jos us from times sqre. So there was this 4. 0 magnitude after shock right fore 6 00. Iidnt even feel that one. Did you feel it in times square at least i peonally didnt feel it here in times square. Andrew it is very much Business As Usual tonight. You can hear the sirens meanwhile, though its important to also remind viewers that officials here, york have confirmed the total of 11 aftershocks, as you mentioned, the strongest and the most noticeable one. Only a couple of hours ago, over eight hours since the main quake a typical morning in middlesex, new jersey much of the Eastern Us On Friday Second Angle captured the rattling of the walls violent enough to knock items to the ground you, my house was shaking its one of many videos shared online, capturing stunned and scared residents during and after 4. 8 magnitude quake the epicenter was some 50 miles west of New York City in northern new jersey, according to the Us Geological survey, which estimates at least 23 Million People felt some degree of shaking from dc to new england ned tanner was working at a manhattan highrise. My chair starting kind of bouncing a little bit and as soon as i looked around, i immediately realized that i wasnt alone everybody else in the building definitely felt something so theres a feeling i havent experienced before. It was quite interesting and yeah, theres a little unnerving the new jersey quake is the largest to strike that state and over 240 years, according to the usgs New York City, let Security Council meeting on the war in the middle east forced to pause as the un manhattan headquarters shook some yeah, youre youre making the ground shake Critical Infrastructure like bridges and the Transit System fared well. Many built to withstand seismic events strger than fridays assured city officials, we do not have any reports of major impacts to our infrastructure oruries but of course we are still assessing the situation so polo has a full Damage Assessment across the region been completed the mayor eric Adams Anderson said that he, they are going to continue to keep engineers on the shifts, especially into the weekend as those as at assessment continue so far, their buildings departments have received no reports of any buildings, any of the close to 1 million buildings here in the city, there were structurally compromise, so they continue to remind the public to certainly be on alert especially with the potential for aftershocks. We mentioned 11 year a little while ago that last insignificant one that was the 12th one to be felt. And there is still a real possibility that there could be more, theyre also reminding people of that advice. Its important in to keep in mind should one of those sort they be rattled by one of these aftershocks and potentially dropped to the floor, cover their heads. Their next also to seek shelter under heavy piece of Furniture Advice i said, officiant, really hope that wont be needed anymore for the rest of tonight . Yeah polo sandoval. Thanks very much. Im joined now by tom foreman, add the magic wall. So tom, i mean, for quick of of relatively limited power, i mean, its certainly had a very big effect. Why is that . Yeah, this isnt a really huge one. If you look at the epicenter over here, new jersey, every one of these dots represents somebody who felt its only pull mentioned there all the way up to new england, down to dc the reason they felt it so far is the nature of the area. This wasnt a very deep quake, so it would resonate out more in the east. You have very old Rock Strength at a, out here its very densely packed. It can carry that vibration, that signal very, very far. And frankly, anderson has a really big population here. There are a lot of people to sense it doing a more rural area, it may not be noticed as much. Should people be worried about aftershocks or even a stronger quake1 coming days theyre hardly noticeable. Well, they are hardly noticeable and there have been a fair number of them since this happened this morning. None of them have made it up to that four 0. 8. This one came the closest down here, generally, because this isnt that strong, not so much of a worry. However, one of the worries is that the east, unlike other parts of the country, has not so much been retrofitted with buildings that are earthquake resistant. Many of the buildings are very old. So if youve got hit with a big bump it could be an issue, but generally, geologist say no real worry here. How does this one today compared to some of the ones felt out west in the past . Yeah. If you look at and i know youve covered these as i have as you move west. Boy, does this map this is the area up here, not a lot of seismic activity, of course, alaska and hawaii, but he moved the Midwest Outer here down to illinois, missouri a lot. But then california here thats where you get the big swath of tremendous numbers of earthquakes and the damage can be extraordinary. Loma prieta and san francisco, 1980, 94. 8. Today, look at this 6. 9. Remember, this goes up exponentially, not just by a little bit, thats a big, big difference. Northridge quake 1994, i remember covering this one 60 0. 7, and the really the granddaddy of them all, the thing that is out west, the thing nobody can believe anchorage back in 1964, look at that 9. 2. The biggest earthquake in the history of this country, one of the biggest in the world and my wife was a little girl living in this this town when that happened, shes remembers every moment of it that went for 4. 5 minutes out think about fourandahalf minutes of shaking unbelievable. Found farming. Thanks so much perspection now from steven hall or Associate Professor of physics at fordham university, and also susan hough a seismologist and the Us Geological survey steven, thanks for being with us. I love it that you didnt actually even feel it. Youre driving on the road . I was driving thank you. Miss the giant events . I missed it. I live five years in california. Didnt never experienced an earthquake out there too. So why explain why this happened today here in the coast. I mean, does it we have why would it happen . I think it was the yankees home opener now, its its its a random event that can happen. I mean, weve there are faults out here and there are theres pressure thats built up and it and these are essentially Tectonic Plates shifting. Yeah, theyre, theyre, theyre moving against each other. Theyre slipping and their theyre giving up some of the energy that they have stored in it. And theres not theres not really any way to predict, is there . I mean, i know some peoples animals like seemed to free catalyst. Yeah, the animals have seemed to know ahead of time, but theres theres no real way to predict earthquakes. I dont think anybody would bet money on on predicting earthquakes. And susan, what do you make the 4. 0 magnitude aftershock that happened right before 6 00 p. M. I. Mean, is that is that just typical . And how many more aftershocks kid there be there can be quite a few. Its in keeping with expectations. We make forecast based on average statistics of aftershocks that weve seen in the past. And theres actually a forecast on the usgs webpage for a sequence that could continue for months or even years at a low rate. And if you look right now, there is a chance of aftershocks and even another earthquake magnitude five or greater than chances statistically of a five or greater actually one in about 15 over the next year. So thats a low chance, but one and 15 is not zero. So once youve had the Earthquake Activity definitely its increasing the chances of more events and that increase chances. I mean, how long does that last for it can last for quite awhile and a months or years for an event as large as 4. 8. Interesting. So its something that the usgs will continue to monitor and the Aftershock Forecast on the webpage will continue to be updated. And steven, would this have anything to do . I mean, taiwan just had an earthquake anyway. I mean, theres one followed the other. And does this have anything to do with i know i got people asked me if this had anything to do with the Solar Eclipse. No. Noted it. Did both of those the taiwan quake yeah, it was it was much larger, right . It was it was it was three orders of magnitude larger, right . Because its some 0. 8 magnitude. This one was a 4. 8 the numbers are confusing. What does that mean in terms of how much stronger was the taiwan taiwan about 1,000 times stronger, thousand times stronger okay. So if you can imagine, if you are feeling that shake in your house that i imagine that amplified by 1,000 thats so it would be, its a much more intense event and susan, how are the earthquakes on the west coast different than those experienced here on the east . Are they . Well, as your listeners, her there there felt more strongly the waves once theyre released, treble much more efficiently in the east because of the nature of the crust. And so you see these large these large felt extents, 80s, its a different Geologic Setting in the west, you have two plates that are moving relative to each other. The Pacific Plate versus the North American plate. On the east, the north American Continent is pretty much glue to the Oceanic Crust thats next to it. Theres no Plate Boundary thats moving. So you dont have a california just style Earthquake Zone along the east. But you do have these broad stresses. Youre getting earthquakes that are spread out along the atlantic seaboard. Weve had large earthquakes in the past in charleston, south carolina, close to magnitude seven in 18, 86. Another event over magnitude seven offshore of grand banks and 1929 so these infrequent, large earthquakes are possible along a broad zone that we really dont understand very well because we dont have as much data as per kelvin i said watching susan. Thank you so much. Steven hall are as well. Appreciate it. Still becomes tonight the former president once again tries to get the judge and his criminal Hush Money Trial to recuse himself. Will examine his latest arguments, delay the trial that comes days before it scheduled to begin. Also tonight, almost as rare as an east coast east coast earthquake, Melania Trump set to make an appearance details ahead this is the big dam. Its great to be the music, the Magic Of Madness its time to dance well, you can eat it kane, who that do we are rahm. 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The apparent delay tactic sites the former president is presumptive status as the republican nominee for president and need to campaign as a new justification for the request the foreign present also cites a comment, judge juan juan merchan made to the Associated Press last month. The judge declined to discuss the case, but said the preparation for the trial was intense. Once again, the former president takes a swipe at the judges daughter and her alleged political connections is comes days after the judge expanded the gag order against the former president to include all Family Members of court staff, including the judges daughter former president is apparently already flouted that order on more than one occasion. Now, the Manhattan Das Office has previously said that trump offers no evidence for Recusal Other than a quote, daisy chain of innuendos. Going to get some legal perspective now from former federal chief judge john jones, the third and former federal prosecutor elie honig. Joe jones. What do you make of this filing from the trump team . Is there any evidence your mind that the judge should recuse himself well, anderson, first of all, its good to be back with you. I dont see anything in the motion thats do they indicate that the predicate for this motion as opposed to the one that they filed last year, is that hes now the nominee instead of the presumptive nominee or hes going to be the nominee i dont think that that changes anything in particular in terms of a factual basis and you just mentioned that the judge made some statements to the press i frankly dont see anything there that would disqualify him of course, preparation is intense. Some people would argue that judges shouldnt Talk To The Press at all. I guess you could make a case for that, but there was nothing that he said was in my view, a basis to recuse elie. You wrote a piece last year calling for the judge to recuse himself why is that . And do you still believe it i do still believe that anderson he will not recuse himself to be clear, i agree with what judge jones joe said. I dont think the new statements that the judge made require his recusal, but heres the biggest problem judgment. Sean, in july of 2020, made a very small donation, 35 but he went on the internet, logged into a site called act blue, and he donated 35 to, first of all joe biden for president 2020 of all, to a group dedicated to stopping donald trump and his radical rightwing legacy. Now its a very small amount, but the reason we have Recusal Anderson is to protect the process this because the rule say if a person could reasonably look at the judges activities and question whether that judge was truly impartial than the judge should step aside, judges do this all the time. Let the next judge handle it and i think if the tables were turned, if this judge had donated 35 in 2020 to reelect donald trump and to defeat joe biden and his radical leftwing legacy. I think youd see the case, so i think this judge should have stepped off and let any of the other of dozens of judges in the courthouse handled the case with no issues judge jones, do you think prior donation is an issue you know, elie wrote a very thou