Rachel Zegler, Jessica Chastain, and Busy Phillips reacted to the rare quake on the East Coast.
It’s a big day for New Yorkers and their fellow East Coast counterparts, who started off the morning with an invigorating 4.8 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter radiating out from New Jersey. Or, for California transplants like myself, it’s just another Friday.While some urban dwellers may have initially passed off the rattling as the work of nearby construction sites or their heavy-footed upstairs neighbors, New York Governor Kathy Hochul confirmed the quake on X: “A 4.
”While I can’t imagine the said “damage” amounting to anything more than perhaps a tipped trashcan or a felled picture frame, a geologist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory talked to the New York Times about the rarity of such a tremor in the northeast—especially as it pertains to the Ramapo fault zone that runs across New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. “There’s been nothing close to this for a long time,” Dr. Folarin Kolawole told the outlet.
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