People wait outside looking across the river to downtown NYC.
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook the northeastern US states of New Jersey and New York on Friday.
  • East Coasters flooded social media with reactions to Friday's earthquake. 
  • There's a reason East Coast earthquakes travel further than their West Coast counterparts.
  • The rocks are harder, which causes the seismic waves to travel greater distances.

New Yorkers had a lot of feelings about the 4.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked the East Coast Friday morning, with a litany of jokes and memes flooding social media.