A rare 4.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the New York metropolitan area on Friday appeared to create two cracks on a road in New Jersey.
"Earthquake outside my home in Union, N.J.," Dave Scipione wrote on the social media platform X.
Earthquake outside my home in Union, NJ
— Dave Scipione (@DaveScipione) April 5, 2024
Lived 10 years in San Francisco and never felt one like this - two giant cracks in the street pic.twitter.com/9KTzg4q180
"Lived 10 years in San Francisco and never felt one like this - two giant cracks in the street," he said in the posting, linking to a video of the cracks.
The tremor hit around 10:30 a.m. in Whitehouse Station in New Jersey, about 60 miles west of New York City and could be felt in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
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