Nearby Early-Morning Quake Shakes Sleeping New Yorkers
Residents throughout the New York metropolitan area were jolted awake Saturday morning by an earthquake that packed enough punch to be felt from southern Canada to Philadelphia.
The quake, which struck at 6:08 a.m., registered 4.0 on the Richter scale and was centered about 15 miles north of midtown Manhattan in the suburban Westchester County community of Ardsley, according to seismologist Klaus Jacob at the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory in Palisades.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Center in Golden, Colo., gauged the quake’s force at 3.8 on the Richter scale.
“It sounded like a sonic boom or an explosion,” said Doris Selig, who lives in Dobbs Ferry, about 1 1/2 miles from Ardsley. “The building shook momentarily.”
“My whole bed, my body was actually shaking. I thought I was dreaming but it was too long,” said Sharon Bryan, who lives in Ewing Township, N.J., about 90 miles from the quake’s center. “I sat up in bed, and I could hear things vibrating in my medicine cabinet.”
Although police switchboards in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut lit up after the quake, there were no reports of injuries or damage.
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