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3.0 Earthquake Rocks NJ
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 3, 2009
Modified Feb 3, 2009
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Last night, at 10.34 p.m., a 3.0 magnitude earthquake was felt a few miles from Morristown, NJ. The Star-Ledger reports, "It sounded like an explosion, houses shook and dogs started barking." Other residents said it felt like a "bomb" and one man told WCBS 2, "I was upstairs on my computer, and all of a sudden I hear a boom, boom, boom, then a bang, bang, bang. My monitor almost fell off of my computer desk. So I immediately went downstairs to check on my grandma and ask her if she was alright or if she fell." A US Geological Survey geophysicist explained, "This is what's considered a micro-size quake. However, it is widely felt in this area. But usually a quake of this size is not going to be very damaging." The last recorded earthquake in NJ was a 2.1 last summer while the largest since 1974 was a 4.0 in 1985.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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