Updates on Local Earthquake

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🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Alexander Gates, department chair and professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University and co-author of Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes New Edition (Facts-on-File Inc., third edition, 2006), discusses the preliminary information on New Jersey's 4.8 magnitude earthquake which occurred on Friday morning and was felt in the tristate area.

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0:00.0	Brian Ler on WNYC.
0:12.8	All right, who felt it?
0:14.6	Did anything happen where you are?
0:17.3	What we have right now is just this.
0:26.7	This is from CBS News, a 4.8 earthquake. That's a preliminary number, but that's high for this area. 4.8 on the Richter scale, earthquake, rattled New York
0:34.3	City and the surrounding area. This says the quake was centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, so that's about 40 miles west of the
0:41.7	city.
0:42.5	So wherever you are, help us report this story.
0:45.9	What did you feel?
0:48.2	And is there any damage or anything else?
0:51.9	Let's see.
0:52.8	We're going to start with Jim in Jefferson, New Jersey.
0:56.8	Jim, you're on WNYC.
0:58.2	Hello.
1:00.0	Good morning, Brian.
1:01.0	It's a pleasure to be on.
1:02.2	It's exciting.
1:04.3	What happened where you are?
1:05.7	First of all, where's Jefferson in relation to, let's say, New York City or Newark,
1:10.4	so people know where you are,
1:11.7	and then tell us what you felt?
1:12.7	We are in northern Morris County.
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