A shocking video shows the moment a musician trying to record himself playing music is suddenly interrupted by an earthquake.
The earthquake shook many cities along the US East Coast including New York City, Lebanon, Philadelphia and Tewkesbury on Friday morning. It happened at 10.23am with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8, centred near Lebanon, New Jersey, or about 45 miles west of New York City and 50 miles north of Philadelphia.
In a clip shared on X, formerly Twitter, musician Jared Demel could be seen filming himself playing a few casual chords on his guitar and singing when suddenly the camera, which is propped up on a table, moves. At the same time Jared stopped playing as a low rumbling noise could be heard throughout the house including some banging.
Freezing for the duration of the shake, Jared, who was in Bridgewater, New Jersey, then exclaimed: "F**k was that?!?"
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It was an earthquake that shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area on Friday morning, the US Geological Survey said, with residents across the Northeast reporting rumbling in a region where people are unaccustomed to feeling the ground move. S.G.S. figures indicated that the quake might have been felt by more than 42 million people.
New York City's emergency notification system said in a social media post more than 30 minutes after the quake that it had no reports of damage or injuries in the city. The Fire Department of New York said on social media about an hour after the quake that it was "responding to calls and evaluating structural stability" but that there are "no major incidents at this time."
The national Emergency Broadcast System warning of the earthquake in New York City (Getty Images)Amtrak said it was inspecting its tracks and had speed restrictions in place throughout the busy Northeast Corridor. New Jersey Transit posted on X that its train system was subject to delays caused by bridge inspections. The Philadelphia area's PATCO rail line suspended service out of what it said was "an abundance of caution."
People in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Connecticut and other areas of the Northeast reported shaking. Tremors lasting for several seconds were felt over 200 miles away near the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. In midtown Manhattan, traffic grew louder as motorists blared their horns on shuddering streets. Some Brooklyn residents heard a boom and experienced their building shaking.
Mayor Eric Adams addresses reporters (NYC Mayor's Office)In New York City's Astoria neighborhood, Cassondra Kurtz was giving her 14-year-old Chihuahua, Chiki, a cocoa butter rubdown for her dry skin. Kurtz was recording the moment on video, as an everyday memory of the dog's older years, when her apartment started shaking hard enough that a large mirror banged audibly against a wall.
Kurtz assumed at first it was a big truck going by. The video captured her looking around, perplexed. Chiki, however, "was completely unbothered."
Attorney Finn Dusenbery was in a law office in midtown Manhattan. "The building shook and I thought that the ceiling above me was going to collapse," Dusenbery said. "I did think that maybe the building was going to fall down for a second, and I wanted to get out of the building when I felt that."
It hit two km from Tewkesbury, New JerseyThe White House said in a statement that President Joe Biden had been briefed on the earthquake and was "in touch with federal, state, and local officials as we learn more."
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul posted on X that the quake was felt throughout the state. "My team is assessing impacts and any damage that may have occurred, and we will update the public throughout the day," Hochul said.
Philadelphia police asked people not to call 911 about seismic activity unless they were reporting an emergency. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said state officials were monitoring the situation. A spokesperson for Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont was unaware of any reports of damage in that state.
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The shaking stirred memories of the Aug. 23, 2011, earthquake that jolted tens of millions of people from Georgia to Canada. Registering a magnitude of 5.8, it was the strongest quake to hit the East Coast since World War II. The epicentre was in Virginia.
That earthquake left cracks in the Washington Monument, spurred the evacuation of the White House and Capitol and rattled New Yorkers three weeks before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
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