Residents throughout the Northeast had been rattled by a 4.8 magnitude earthquake that shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan space and far of the encompassing area on Friday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey was fast to launch maps exhibiting the spot the place the quake was centered, in New Jersey, and the realm the place it was felt.
The USGS reported the quake occurred about 7 miles north of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. It indicated that the quake might need been felt by greater than 42 million individuals. There had been a number of aftershocks later within the day, together with one with a magnitude of 4.0.
USGS
People in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Connecticut, Boston and different areas of the Northeast reported shaking. Tremors lasting for a number of seconds had been felt over 200 miles away close to the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border.
The map beneath reveals the seismic depth of the earthquake. The map, which is generally a lighter shade of blue, reveals that the depth was mild to weak, relying on the space from the epicenter.
USGS
Another map released by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre on X, previously Twitter, highlights the eyewitness experiences of shaking and attainable injury ranges in the course of the seismic occasion.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams have been briefed on the quake.
“We’re taking this extraordinarily significantly and here is why: There’s all the time the opportunity of aftershocks. We haven’t felt a magnitude of this earthquake since about 2011,” Hochul stated.
People throughout the area had been startled by the rumbling of the quake. One New York City resident informed CBS New York’s Elijah Westbrook, “I used to be laying in my mattress, and my entire condominium building began shaking. I began freaking out,”
It’s not the primary time the East Coast and New York City have been hit by an earthquake.
A 5.0 quake was measured in New York City in 1884.
The shaking stirred recollections of the Aug. 23, 2011, earthquake that jolted tens of hundreds of thousands of individuals from Georgia to Canada. Registering magnitude 5.8, it was the strongest quake to hit the East Coast since World War II. The epicenter was in Virginia.
That earthquake left cracks within the Washington Monument, spurred the evacuation of the White House and Capitol and rattled New Yorkers three weeks earlier than the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror assaults.
