{"id":114990,"date":"2025-08-03T07:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T07:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114990\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T07:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T07:01:11","slug":"small-quake-shakes-the-new-york-area-usgs-says-magnitude-was-3-0-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114990\/","title":{"rendered":"Small quake shakes the New York area. USGS says magnitude was 3.0 \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small earthquake rattled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/tag\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New York<\/a> metropolitan area Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Geological Survey said the tremor had a magnitude of 3.0. <\/p>\n<p>It hit in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/tag\/new-jersey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New Jersey<\/a> suburb of Hasbrouck Heights, less than 8 miles west of Central Park, at a depth of about 6.2 miles.<\/p>\n<p>One resident of New York&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/tag\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> borough described it as a very brief tremor, just a slight swaying for a moment.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, social media quickly lit up with people who felt it. The official account of the Empire State Building reported in on the social platform X to say: \u201cI AM FINE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tremor was much milder than a 4.8-magnitude quake in 2024 that struck in Tewksbury, New Jersey, a little farther west of the city. <\/p>\n<p>A 3.0 earthquake is typically not strong enough to cause any damage, but tremors that mild are somewhat rare in the Northeast. <\/p>\n<p>New York City Emergency Management said there were no immediate reports of major impacts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small earthquake rattled the New York metropolitan area Saturday night. The U.S. Geological Survey said the tremor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12635,401,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-114990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-earthquakes","10":"tag-new-jersey","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114963551558657125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}