Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe 4.8-magnitude earthquake that rattled the New York City area and frayed residents’ nerves on Friday morning was the biggest temblor to hit the region in nearly 150 years—and experts say it’s well past time to start taking the seismic threat seriously.According to the New York City Area Consortium for Earthquake Loss Mitigation (NYCEM), “thousands” of earthquakes with magnitudes of 2.0 or greater have occurred in New York State over the past few centuries a
Ball Drop When a small earthquake rattled the New York City area on Friday morning, Pennsylvania resident Justin Allen was lying down on an operating table getting a vasectomy, The Guardian reports, which shocked his surgeon to momentarily pause the procedure. "A FUCKING EARTHQUAKE HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE OF MY VASECTOMY," wrote Allen in a […]