Earthquake centered close to New York Metropolis rattles Lengthy Island, Northeast

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NEW YORK (AP) — An earthquake shook the densely populated New York Metropolis metropolitan space Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey stated, with residents reporting they felt rumbling throughout the Northeast.

The company reported a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7, centered close to Lebanon, New Jersey, or about 45 miles west of New York Metropolis and 50 miles north of Philadelphia.

Suffolk County Government Ed Romaine stated in an announcement this morning no main incidents had been reported.

“No main incidents have been reported at the moment,” Romaine stated. “The Workplace of Emergency Administration continues to observe the scenario and my workplace is in communication with our area’s native governments, hospitals and emergency administration businesses.”

“Up to now there was no reviews of any structural harm,” Nassau County Government advised reporters.

In a textual content issued to Lengthy Islanders  simply after 12 p.m., New York State Emergency Administration stated that aftershocks might happen.

Any aftershocks usually are not anticipated to trigger any harm, Blakeman advised reporters.

There are not any impacts to the Lengthy Island Rail Street, subway, bus or Metro-North service because of the earthquake, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority stated on X, the platform previously generally known as Twitter. And there’s no iterruption of service at Lengthy Island MacArthur Airport or PSEG-Lengthy Island, officers stated.

The Hearth Division of New York stated there have been no preliminary reviews of harm. New York Mayor Eric Adams had been briefed on the quake, his spokesperson Fabien Levy stated, including, “Whereas we shouldn’t have any reviews of main impacts at the moment, we’re nonetheless assessing the influence.”

In midtown Manhattan, the standard cacophony of visitors grew louder as motorists blared their horns on momentarily shuddering streets. Some Brooklyn residents heard a booming sound and their constructing shaking. In an house home in Manhattan’s East Village, a resident from extra earthquake-prone California calmed nervous neighbors.

Individuals in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Connecticut and different areas of the East Coast unaccustomed to earthquakes additionally reported feeling the bottom shake.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul posted on X that the quake was felt all through the state. “My crew is assessing impacts and any harm that will have occurred, and we’ll replace the general public all through the day,” Hochul stated.

The shaking stirred recollections of the Aug. 23, 2011, earthquake that jolted tens of hundreds of thousands of individuals from Georgia to Canada. Registering magnitude 5.8, it was the strongest quake to hit the East Coast since World Battle II. The epicenter was in Virginia.

That earthquake left cracks within the Washington Monument, spurred the evacuation of the White Home and Capitol and rattled New Yorkers three weeks earlier than the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror assaults.

Adina Genn contributed to this report.