A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the Northeast Friday morning, shaking buildings from New Jersey to New York City and Connecticut.
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the Northeast Friday morning, in what New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called "one of the largest earthquakes on the East Coast in the last century."
"It felt like a subway train running under the couch," said Rocco Pietropola, who was in an eighth-floor Manhattan apartment. New York City schools stayed open as normal, according to the city's Department of Education press secretary, Nathaniel Styer. "Many said they saw the lights shaking a little and the smart board vibrate. But mostly we heard it -- sounded like students running down the hall," she said.
"Earthquakes along the Atlantic Seaboard are uncommon but not unheard of," according to the U.S. Geological Survey. "M4.8 is not large enough to cause damage, apart from light effects in the immediate epicentral region. It is large enough to be strongly felt, especially in the east, where earthquake shaking travels through the crust more efficiently than it does out west."
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