An earthquake just rocked NYC, New Jersey, and the surrounding areas

If you just felt the room shake a little, it’s not just you. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) just confirmed that an earthquake hit north of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, around 10:23AM ET, with people located in New York, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania feeling its effects.

“It lasted just long enough to be unsettling,” said one Verge staffer who experienced it in Jersey City. Others based in New York noted it felt like a particularly large truck driving by, with most agreeing it lasted about five to six seconds.

The above map from the USGS shows people feeling weak or light shaking along the coast of the Northeast, with some reports reaching as far north as Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and upstate New York. It looks like people felt the quake in Maryland and Delaware as well.

Fabien Levy, the deputy mayor for communications to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, says there haven’t been “reports of major impacts at this time,” but the city is still assessing its effects. New Jersey Transit says rail service “is subject up to 20-minute delays in both directions” due to bridge inspections caused by the quake. The Holland Tunnel in New Jersey was also briefly held for an inspection.

“Earthquakes are uncommon but not unheard of along the Atlantic Coast,” the USGS writes in a post on X, adding that it’s “a zone one study called a ‘passive-aggressive margin’ b/c there’s no active plate boundary between the Atlantic & N. American plates, but there are stresses.”

Earlier this year, a 1.7 magnitude earthquake hit near Astoria, Queens. While no injuries were reported, local news outlets said it caused explosions, leading to power outages in the area. Mayor Eric Adams will be holding a press conference about the earthquake at 12PM ET that you can watch live on the NYC.gov website.