According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 2.4-magnitude earthquake rocked the northern New Jersey region close to New York City on Friday afternoon.
Shortly after 1 p.m., the organization, which monitors earthquakes worldwide, recorded the little tremor, which was centered in Bergen County, roughly 1 kilometer east-southeast of Paramus.
More than 42 million people felt the 4.8-magnitude earthquake that shook New Jersey in early April of last year, and hundreds of aftershocks followed.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a little earthquake struck Bergen County on Friday afternoon, January 24, approximately 1 kilometer east-southeast of Paramus.Geological Survey of the U.S.
On social media, some users claim to have felt Friday’s earthquake, while others initially reported a higher magnitude.
Indeed, an earthquake occurred in northern New Jersey. Dennis Katsnelson, an X user in Paramus, tweeted on Friday afternoon that he believed something had crashed or exploded inside my house.
He also mentioned that the noise was really brief—it lasted only a second or two!
Indeed, an earthquake occurred in northern New Jersey. I was in Paramus when I felt something had suddenly exploded or smashed into my house. It was very brief, lasting only a second or two!#quake
Another X user posted at 1:16 p.m. on Friday, and I believed something had just fallen off my house. Has there been an earthquake in New Jersey?
“My NJ brain’s first thought was oh no, do I have to sue the builder who just worked on my house, followed by oh good, just an earthquake,” remarked another X user, who expressed uncertainty over what had happened when the minor earthquake struck.
People in New Milford, Connecticut, 56 miles away, reported feeling the minor earthquake, according to the USGS.
In addition, the agency got early complaints from residents of Clark, Elmwood Park, Fair Lawn, Garfield, Glen Rock, Haskell, Hoboken, Ho-Ho-Kus, Lyndhurst, Midland Park, Ridgewood, Rutherford, and Weehawken, as well as Boonton (approximately 19 miles from the epicenter) and Butler in Morris County.
Subsequent reports, including some from Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx, were received from over 100 towns and cities in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.
We have no reports of damage or cause for alarm this time, according to police in Glen Rock, Bergen County, who stated they received reports of the earthquake at approximately 1:02 p.m.
“It was a very brief boom and a quick shake,” said Heather Bognar, an administrative assistant in the Glen Rock city clerk’s office.
To be honest, we assumed that the big boom might have been someone on the roof. It sounded as though someone had struck the roof. The structure trembled rapidly, Bognar told NJ Advance Media.
She claimed that it happened extremely quickly and that she didn’t experience any lingering swaying or trembling. Before we saw all of the reports, no one believed it to be an earthquake.
Something seemed to have fallen out of my house. Has there been an earthquake in New Jersey?
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