New York City experienced an aftershock just hours after being hit by a rare 4.8 magnitude earthquake Friday morning.
New York’s Emergency Management Agency told the X around 6 p.m. local time that it was feeling “tremors” at the facility.
Following the 4.8 magnitude earthquake, a USGS seismologist warned that the East Coast could see aftershocks on the order of “two or three.”
Friday morning’s earthquake was a rare seismological event that was felt throughout the tri-state region, from Norfolk, Virginia and Philadelphia to Boston and Maine, according to the USGS.
According to a 2019 earthquake mitigation report, this could be the largest earthquake felt by the state of New Jersey in approximately 250 years.
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