Earthquake felt in Miami Beach...
Source: NBC6 miami
A strong earthquake in the southern Gulf off Cuba was felt in parts of South Florida and the rest of the state on Monday.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the 6.1 magnitude quake happened about 65 miles west-northwest of Mantua, on the northwest side of Cuba, just after 2 p.m.
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My friend in Miami Beach just told me there was a earthquake in Cuba and it was felt in Miami Beach..
His chair was shaking and he could not figure out why.....
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One in 2011 that originated in Central Virginia (that shook the hell out of my work building) -
https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/10-year-anniversary-uss-most-widely-felt-earthquake
And one more recent, just 2 years ago originating in Jersey -
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2024/04/05/earthquake-philadelphia/
Now - your OP has no link in the form and if you don't add one (I gave you one to use) then your thread might get locked.
is that Philly is in the transition zone from the Atlantic Coastal Plain (that encompasses most of South Jersey) to the Piedmont, where as you head west from Broad St., there is an elevation rise.
So as you go from the Delaware River east of Broad St., say along parts of Columbus Blvd near Penn's Landing that is actually below sea level, and move west, you will find that places like here in NW Philly and surrounding 'burbs, are where the elevation "soars" to the 300 ft- 400+ ft range, and you are now in an old hilly area.
when I look at pictures of the original brick rowhouses from around 1790. The only thing that is different is that Boston's streets are somewhat hilly compared to Philly's very flat Center City.
I keep seeing ads about the Phila celebrations coming this year and everything is "the first this and the first that" (hospitals, libraries, etc) and I lived across the street from "the first animal refuge in the country", The Morris Animal Refuge. I volunteered there and they are in my trust since it was the happiest time in my life. 
If I went and visited Philly now I wouldn't recognize it. When I left City Hall was the tallest building in the city.
and like much of southern NE, is hilly and rocky vs the flatter sandy NJ coast. I had cousins who grew up in NH near Hampton Beach about 60 miles north of Boston, and that was a rocky beach. Their house was at the bottom of a hill too (we we would bring our bikes up there during our summer visits and the area was definitely hilly). Not far south was Salisbury Beach, just over the NH border in northeastern MA, and that was flatter and much less rocky.
And yes Philly has a lot of firsts but all the media seems to want to talk about is "Rocky" and cheesesteaks. Since I worked in the area, I remember hearing some tourists, literally a couple blocks from Independence Hall, talking about the Constitution being written and ratified in Boston. 
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And the skyline is definitely different. One Liberty Place Tower broke the "agreement" upon completion in 1987, and towers have gone up hither and yon ever since (with Comcast having the 2 tallest buildings in the city now).
https://www.inquirer.com/photo/look-back-curse-billy-penn-20081016.html
https://billypenn.com/2016/02/11/what-happened-with-the-little-billy-penn-statue-on-the-comcast-center/
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/01/30/curse-billy-penn-eagles-super-bowl/
to make sure Billy Penn's "hat" was symbolically taller!
was when Rendell "dressed" Billy Penn in a Phillies cap in 1993 when we had made it to the World Series then -
and in a Flyers jersey when we had made it to the Stanley Cup finals in 1997 -
and we lost both.
The height rule was not a law or ordinance but a "gentleman's agreement" coming from famed city planner Edmund Bacon IIRC (yes related to Kevin - his dad). I think City Council decided to just go on and approve the construction of Liberty One.
