If you happen to felt the digital camera shake slightly, it's not simply you. The USA Geological Survey (USGS) has simply confirmed that an earthquake has struck Lebanon, New Jersey, with folks in New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania feeling the consequences.
“It went on lengthy sufficient to be disturbing,” stated one Verge worker who skilled it in Jersey Metropolis. Others in New York famous that it felt like a very massive truck passing by, with most agreeing that it lasted about 5 to 6 seconds.
The map under from the USGS reveals folks feeling weak or barely shaking alongside the Northeast coast, with some stories reaching as far north as Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and upstate New York. Individuals additionally reportedly felt the quake in Maryland and Delaware.
Earlier this 12 months, a magnitude 1.7 earthquake struck close to Astoria, Queens, inflicting some energy outages within the surrounding space.