Many people in New York City were jolted awake early on Friday as a 2.2-magnitude earthquake hit the NY metropolitan region.
The quake struck south of Hastings-on-Hudson in Westchester County about 2 a.m., as the rumbling appeared to be focused in White Plains, Yonkers, and sections of northern New Jersey. There were no early reports of damage in the region.
One local claimed to have felt the little earthquake as far away as Danbury, Connecticut. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), earthquakes of a magnitude of 3 or below typically do little damage but are strong enough to be felt by anyone nearby.
The greatest documented earthquake to hit New York was a 5.9 on September 5, 1944, near the border with Canada, which the NESEC said caused very minimal damage to nearby communities.
More recently, early in February, a 3.8-magnitude earthquake shook Buffalo’s suburbs.
