UN Security Council diplomats were shaken in their chairs, planes got briefly grounded, and furniture rattled across New York Friday when an earthquake jolted the city that never sleeps.
In this illustration, a phone shows an Emergency Alert message on April 5, 2024, warning of an earthquake in New York . New York City was shaken by a small earthquake on Friday with a 4.8 magnitude and an epicenter in neighboring New Jersey, according to the US Geological Survey . There were no initial reports of injuries or damage. In Brooklyn buildings shook, rattling cupboard doors and fixtures, an AFP correspondent reported.
Shortly before 6:00 pm the region was shaken by an aftershock which the USGS said was 4.0 magnitude.At the United Nations, which has its headquarters in New York, a Security Council meeting on the situation in Gaza was temporarily paused after the initial tremor. Social media users reported feeling the earthquake from Philadelphia up to New York and eastward along Long Island."Earthquakes are uncommon but not unheard of along the Atlantic Coast, a zone one study called a 'passive-aggressive margin' because there's no active plate boundary between the Atlantic and North American plates," the USGS wrote on X.
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