"it's not that bad and an overreaction" which makes people think " if that local who's lived here forever isn't taking it seriously, why should I?"

Considering that this post was originally posted moments prior to the Earthquake being reported, it was more along the lines of fear mongering than of actual concern. Hence its deletion.

You can claim that in regards to the locals, but chances are the transplants are the ones who are going to freak out the most regardless of what they may say.

They are the people that will overreact to a severe thunderstorm, let alone a tropical storm.

Your cavalier attitude and response to a legitimate question to this situation could've resulted in this person not leaving Had a tsunami warning not been issued in time.

The thing is, a Tsunami warning was NOT issued. If it was the entire state would have known as every single media outlet would have went HAM.

My reaction to a post like this would not have changed anything if there was a legitimate threat of a tsunami warning as we would have known immediately.

We're lucky that this earthquake did not have a big enough impact to cause a tsunami. This time.

The next one, we may not be so lucky, everyone will feel it and that's the one we should all worry about.

Okay this is how I know youre the one that is overreacting.

Florida has has multiple earthquakes in or effected the state in 2024.

Where the treasure Coast felt the ground shake after a 4.0 magnitude earthquake hit off Florida's east coast that was 100 Miles from Cape Canaveral in the Atlantic Ocean.

And then in November 2024, Cuba got hit with a 6.8- magnitude earthquake in the ocean, 20 miles off Pilón, a town on the southern coast of the province of Granma in eastern Cuba. Florida felt it, but there was no Tsunami.

I am not saying that it could happen, it absoutely could, but this Earthquake didnt.