Great Sesame Street Earthquake of 2012

The great Sesame Street earthquake of 2012 was a magnitude 6.9 supershear earthquake and tsunami that struck New York City at on 3:01 PM, on July 2, 2012, following a catastrophic rupture of the Ramapo fault and sympathetic rupture of the 125th street fault. It was felt as far as Washingmachine, D.C. and Canada. Despite early warning, complications from the earthquake in total caused 420 deaths, (somehow) 8 billion dollars in damage and 5 imaginary dollars, and over 9,000 injuries across the city and surrounding state. Acceleration peaked at 1.2 g, nearly five times the acceleration of an earthquake in Virginia (haha virginia) the previous year.
==Timeline of events==
The EAS was activated at 2:55 PM on phone and TV. The message said “seismic activity detected. Estimated magnitude: 7.0. There is a possibility of an earthquake happening soon, get under the table.” So far this estimate is the closest it’s ever been to correct. It was just 1 point off
The initial rupture began at 3:01 PM in rural parts of New Jersey, then slowly unzipped over the next two minutes north into New York state, causing widespread panic and shattering windows across New York City.
At 3:05 PM, the seismic waves reached the 125th Street fault and ruptured it, causing a major aftershock registering at 5.5 which immediately struck the Upper West Side, which inturn triggered power outages which forced the closure of the Driftveil Drawbridge and Tubeline Bridge. Since it struck with little warning and was extraordinarily shallow, the aftershock registered a maximum intensity of IX on the Mercalli scale. Heavy objects, like batmen and occupied trash cans were thrown into the air, and buildings without plot armor were shifted off their foundations. Ice from the still-frozen Opelucid City was shattered and caused even more injuries, and widespread liquefaction caused flooding in parts of Harlem, which was widely mistaken for a tsunami by local residents. By 3:06 PM, the Entralink system had been rendered inoperable, stranding several hundred people in dream space.
3:10 PM marked the first tsunami warnings, triggered by submarine landslides in the Hudson Canyon offshore. Damaging waves struck Virbank City and surrounding areas, but the Verrazano Narrows decided that they didn't want to get penetrated by a wall of liquid, so the tsunami just kinda turned around and left since it legally couldn't enter the city without the narrows' permission. Consent is important, kids!
==Response==
Concerningly, numerous groups came forward to take responsibility for the earthquake. These included Ducky (who, at the time, had major tensions with UnAmerica), Bob the Builder, the Joker and the Rugrats.
Emergency response was rapid, and firefighters were quick to douse many fires that had been ignited in the upper west side. Several water-type Pokémon also assisted.
The Equestrian royal family made a surprise visit to New York, personally assisting with relief efforts in Harlem, alongside the Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and...you know what, just a lot of heroes showed up to help.
==In UnPopular culture==
The earthquake was referenced in Grand Theft Sesame Street: Hot Pursuit by virtue of a map of a devastated Sesame Street.
==Strange and Vesta arguing over science==
** a small amount of water actually leaked into Sesame Street, it wasn’t enough to destroy everything in its path but it did raise the death toll by 2 people and swept away power lines and weak homes. Not to mention a lot of vehicles
**this was the flooding i mentioned, on vigorous analysis sesame street appears to be an upper west side location
**also the low magnitude was compensated by the shallow depth so you dont have to raise it