A 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit New Jersey just west of New York City Friday morning. While many in the news media reacted to the news, 710 WOR host Mark Simone was live on the air and said he never felt a thing.
At 10:19 AM, the earthquake struck, with citizens as far as Boston and Baltimore claiming they felt the earth’s movement.
Simone, however, was on the air and never made mention of the earthquake until a caller alerted him to the situation.
At nearly 10:30 AM, a caller from Yonkers — a northern New York suburb — told Simone about the quake.
“Wait a minute. You’re in Yonkers and you felt the ground shake? We felt nothing,” Simone said. “iHeart’s really huge. We take up the whole big floor. From the other side, they came in and said they felt the whole building shake. Well, we are on a fault or earthquake line. Why wouldn’t we feel it, though? We’re actually in the middle of the building, where my studio is…well, if only one part of the building shook, it couldn’t have been that bad of a quake.”
After another caller shared a similar story, Simone was flabbergasted that he didn’t feel the quake.
“A lot of these buildings, they actually build the floor so it actually absorbs shock. Wow.”
