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A display on the New York Inventory Trade (NYSE) reveals a information alert of a magnitude 4.8 earthquake in New York Metropolis, U.S., April 5, 2024. (Reuters)
US Geological Survey studies a 4.7 magnitude earthquake close to New York Metropolis. Residents felt rumbling throughout Northeast
An earthquake shook the densely populated New York Metropolis metropolitan space Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey mentioned, with residents reporting they felt rumbling throughout the Northeast.
The company reported a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7, centered close to Lebanon, New Jersey, or about 45 miles west of New York Metropolis and 50 miles north of Philadelphia.
The Fireplace Division of New York mentioned there have been no preliminary studies of harm. New York Mayor Eric Adams had been briefed on the quake, his spokesperson Fabien Levy mentioned, including, “Whereas we wouldn’t have any studies of main impacts at the moment, we’re nonetheless assessing the impression.”
In midtown Manhattan, the same old cacophony of site visitors grew louder as motorists blared their horns on momentarily shuddering streets. Some Brooklyn residents heard a booming sound and their constructing shaking. In an condo home in Manhattan’s East Village, a resident from extra earthquake-prone California calmed nervous neighbors.
Individuals in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Connecticut and different areas of the East Coast unaccustomed to earthquakes additionally reported feeling the bottom shake.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul posted on X that the quake was felt all through the state. “My group is assessing impacts and any harm which will have occurred, and we are going to replace the general public all through the day,” Hochul mentioned.
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 Conflict II. The epicenter was in Virginia.
That earthquake left cracks within the Washington Monument, spurred the evacuation of the White Home and Capitol and rattled New Yorkers three weeks earlier than the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror assaults.
