A rare magnitude 4.8 earthquake rattled New Jersey on Friday, shaking buildings in Manhattan and sending tremors across the Northeast United States, a region unfamiliar with much seismic activity.

Following the earthquake that measured 4.8 magnitude on the Richter scale Friday morning in New Jersey, aftershocks caused more rumbles throughout the Garden State. At approximately 5:59 p.m. an ...

A magnitude-4.8 earthquake struck the Northeast on Friday morning, according to a preliminary estimate from the U.S. Geological Survey, the strongest to hit the densely populated region since 2011.

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake hit Hunterdon County, New Jersey, at 10:23 a.m. Friday -- and it reverberated across the entire tri-state area; there have been no reports of damaged buildings ...

A magnitude-4.8 earthquake originating on a New Jersey fault line rippled through New York City on Friday, in an extremely rare tristate tremor that shook buildings and rattled residents but left ...

The 4.8 magnitude earthquake that struck New Jersey on Friday generated shaking that could be felt from Washington, D.C., to north of Boston. About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are ...

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North Jersey residents were rattled Friday morning by a 4.8 magnitude earthquake that quite literally shook everybody up from New Jersey to New York, Washington D.C., Boston and the surrounding areas.

The 4.8 magnitude quake occurred about 4.3 miles north of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, in the northern part of the state. Shaking lasted less than 30 seconds. According to the moment magnitude ...

The preliminary 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Lebanon, NJ, around 10:23 a.m. and was potentially felt by more than 42 million people, according to the US Geological Survey. “I was doing ...

The magnitude-4.8 earthquake was the strongest in New Jersey in over 200 years. As the shaking calmed on Friday, scientists began working to pinpoint where exactly the rupture occurred. “ ...

(U.S. Geological Survey via AP) The Friday morning tremors felt in the greater Philadelphia region were the result of a 4.8 magnitude earthquake. The United States Geological Survey pinpointed the ...