An earthquake shook the city of New York and its surroundings on Friday morning, the US Geological Survey (USGS) announced. Residents reported feeling a rumble to the northeast.
The agency reported a preliminary magnitude 4.7 quake centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, about 45 miles (72.4 kilometers) west of New York City and 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) north of Philadelphia. mega New York Post.
The Fire Department of New York said there were no reports of damage according to initial reports. The usual cacophony of traffic in midtown Manhattan intensified as motorists honked their horns on the shaking streets. Some Brooklyn residents heard a booming sound and their buildings shook.
In an apartment building in Manhattan’s East Village, a resident from California, which is more prone to earthquakes, calmed nervous neighbors. Residents of Baltimore, Philadelphia, Connecticut and other areas of the East Coast not used to earthquakes also reported shaking the ground.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on X that the quake was felt across the state. My team is currently assessing the effects of the event and any damage that may have occurred. We will inform the public soon
said Hochul.
The USGS said people felt the quake as far away as Philadelphia and New Haven, Connecticut. People in Maryland and Massachusetts also reported feeling it on social media. Some people in New Jersey and New York described it as a strong earthquake, wrote a The Washington Post.
The quake evoked memories of the Aug. 23, 2011 earthquake that shook tens of millions of people from Georgia to Canada. The magnitude 5.8 earthquake was the strongest to hit the east coast since World War II. The epicenter was in Virginia.
There have been several earthquakes recently
As we wrote, a strong 7.4 magnitude earthquake shook the eastern coast of Taiwan on Wednesday. The quake caused several buildings to collapse in Hualien, the city closest to the epicenter. The earthquake could also be felt in the mountainous part of the country, where huge landslides occurred.
In the capital, Taipei, footage released to local media showed collapsed residential buildings and people evacuated from their homes and schools. According to the recordings broadcast by the local broadcaster TVBS, vehicles were also crushed by the earthquake, and objects and shelves in the shops collapsed.
A day later, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported that a 6-magnitude earthquake struck the Tohoku region.
According to the meteorological service, the epicenter of the earthquake was at a depth of about 40 kilometers off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture. The strength of the tremor reached four on the seven-point Japanese seismic intensity scale in some parts of Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, and two in central Tokyo.
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