A magnitude 4.8 earthquake shook the northeastern United States on Friday morning.
The earthquake was felt from Boston down to Baltimore at 10:23 a.m. ET, in accordance to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Lots of incoming flights at the three significant airports in and suitable outdoors York City ended up currently being diverted from landing due to the fact of the quake, in accordance to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The epicenter of the quake was detected about 45 miles west of New York Metropolis, and 40 miles east of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in an region northeast of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, in accordance to the USGS.
The National Tsunami Warning Heart reported there was no threat of a tsunami on the east coast just after the quake.
“Every person @NYSE just gave each and every other a huge seem,” CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla tweeted from the New York Inventory Trade in reduce Manhattan.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in a tweet said, “My crew is examining impacts and any injury that may possibly have occurred, and we will update the community during the working day.”
A spokesman for New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams mentioned there were no main impacts from the quake on the metropolis.
The city’s emergency warn technique pushed out an notify about the quake about 40 minutes soon after it transpired.
– Extra reporting by CNBC’s Kevin Breuninger
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