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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaNew York and beyond rattled by rare East Coast earthquakePublished1 minute agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingThis video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Media caption, Watch: Earthquake shakes New York and New JerseyBy Kayla Epstein & Graeme BakerBBC News, New York & WashingtonNew York and cities on the US East Coast are assessing the impact of a rare earthquake that swayed landmarks and cracked roads.The magnitude-4.8 quake struck at 10:23 local time (15:23 GMT) near Lebanon, New Jersey, and could be felt from Pennsylvania to Connecticut.Residents spoke of being rocked by a violent rumbling that threw objects around their homes and damaged walls.Officials are now conducting safety assessments of infrastructure.At least six aftershocks were reported by residents and the United States Geological Survey, including one with a 4.0 magnitude felt around 18:00 local time.In New York, the Statue of Liberty was seen swaying during the initial earthquake, while workers and residents across the city’s five boroughs reported violent rumbling. Jane Coxwell told the BBC she felt a “rattling” like a train passing while she was in a building in lower Manhattan. “Living in New York I have become accustomed to rattling from the subway. That’s what I thought it was,” she said.”Then I realised I was on the ninth floor. It was a bit unsteady for sure. It felt like a passing train.”Image source, ReutersBrooklyn and the Bronx residents reported rattling cupboards, doors and fixtures.Charita Walcott, a 38-year-old from the Bronx, said the quake felt “like a violent rumble that lasted about 30 seconds or so”.”It was kind of like being in a drum circle, that vibration,” she said.Another New York resident told the BBC’s US partner CBS News how their lazy morning suddenly turned. “I was laying in my bed, and my whole apartment building started shaking. I started freaking out,” they said.At the UN Security Council headquarters, a meeting on Gaza was temporarily paused due to the tremor. “Is that an earthquake?” said Save the Children representative Janti Soeripto, who was speaking at the time.Aircraft at two airports – JFK in New York and Newark in New Jersey – were temporarily grounded while runways were inspected.Yet for all of the drama, New York state Governor Kathy Hochul said there had been no reports of major damage or injuries. Ms Hochul warned of aftershocks, but said they are normal and not expected to cause further damage. The latest aftershock in the early evening was reported on social media by several users, including the official page for the Empire State Building, which wrote on X: “Not again” and “I’m still fine”. Ms Hochul said that officials had started a damage assessment across the state to ensure the safety of buildings and infrastructure. “It’s been an unsettling day, to say the least,” she added. In the town of Union, New Jersey, about 35 miles from the epicentre, resident David Scibione told CBS how “things on our roof started coming down” when the shaking began. And when it had finished, the roads around his house had split from the force.Allison Martins, also of New Jersey, was recording on TikTok when the rumbling started. Her “little video on the day in the life of somebody who works from nine to five” became something more as her camera caught her house shaking.”We’re not used to having earthquakes in New Jersey, let alone a big one like this; we were all scared,” she said.New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said his state had also started a safety assessment. His top concern were the Hudson River tunnels, although there were no reports of major damage. “The rail tunnels were built in…1911, which is why we’re building two new ones,” he said. Image source, CBSImage caption, Cracks appeared in roads closer to the epicentre – such as here in Union, New JerseyThe East Coast and New York City are no strangers to earthquakes, although they are rare. A quake hit near the town of Newcomb in upstate New York with a 5.1 magnitude in 1983, and a 5.0-magnitude tremor was measured in New York City in 1884.But the biggest to affect the East Coast was in 2011, when a 5.8 quake in Virginia forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate buildings in New York, Washington DC and other cities. Jessica Jobe, of the US Geological Survey, said said that Friday’s quake may have happened on an old fault line that had become “reactivated”.”Although there are no known active faults in the area, there are dozens of older inactive faults that formed millions of years ago,” she said. “And under the current stresses from tectonic plates moving those faults can be intermittently reactivated.”She added that earthquakes “can happen anywhere at any time”, but there was only a 3% chance of a 5 magnitude aftershock in the next week.Related TopicsNew JerseyNew York CityNew YorkUnited StatesEarthquakesMore on this storyWatch: New York’s iconic landmarks shaken by earthquake. Video, 00:00:56Watch: New York’s iconic landmarks shaken by earthquakePublished4 hours ago0:56Top StoriesIDF officers sacked over fatal aid worker attackPublished4 hours agoNew York and beyond rattled by East Coast quakePublished1 minute agoWatch: Moment New York landmarks shaken by earthquake. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaPalestinian gunmen kill one person near West Bank settlementPublished4 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warImage source, ReutersImage caption, The attackers got out of a car and fired automatic weapons at other vehicles on a highway near Maale AdumimBy David GrittenBBC NewsA man has been killed and seven other people have been wounded in an attack by three Palestinian gunmen near an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, Israeli police and medics say.A statement said the “terrorists” got out of a car at a checkpoint for Maale Adumim and fired automatic weapons at several vehicles waiting there.Police killed two attackers while the third was wounded and arrested.Palestinian armed group Hamas praised the attack but did not claim it.There has been a surge in violence in the West Bank since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, triggered by Hamas’s deadly attacks in Israel on 7 October.At least 394 Palestinians – members of armed groups, attackers and civilians – had been killed in conflict-related incidents in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, or in Israel as of Tuesday, according to the UN. During the same period, 12 Israelis, including four security forces personnel, had been killed.West Bank Palestinians paying the price for Gaza warUK sanctions Israeli settlers accused of violence Israel’s police force said Thursday’s attack took place near the al-Zaim checkpoint on Highway 1, which connects Maale Adumim with Jerusalem.”Three terrorists… arrived in a vehicle, left the vehicle and started shooting using automatic weapons towards vehicles standing in a traffic jam,” it added.”Security forces neutralized two terrorists on the spot, and after scans [were] conducted another terrorist who tried to escape was located and neutralized.”Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service said the attack took place on a 500m-long (1,640ft) stretch of the highway and that paramedics found casualties in five vehicles.A 20-year-old man in one of the vehicles died of his wounds, while a 23-year-old pregnant woman sitting in another was seriously wounded in the upper body, it added. Four people were moderately wounded and one was lightly wounded. A number of other people were treated for shock.All the wounded were evacuated to hospitals in Jerusalem.The gunmen were identified as three Palestinian men from the West Bank city of Bethlehem, about 10km (6 miles) to the south-west. Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, told journalists at the scene: “The enemies… want to hurt us. They hate us.”He said authorities needed to “distribute more weapons” to Israeli civilians for protection and install more roadblocks around Palestinian communities in the West Bank, arguing that “our right to life is superior to the freedom of movement” of Palestinians.Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, another far-right politician, meanwhile called for the immediate approval of plans for thousands more homes in settlements like Maale Adumim.Israel has built about 160 settlements housing some 700,000 Jews since it occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war. The vast majority of the international community considers the settlements illegal under international law, though Israel and the US dispute this.Hamas called Thursday’s attack a “natural response” to Israeli “massacres and crimes” in Gaza and the West Bank, and called on Palestinians to take up arms.The shooting comes six days after a Palestinian man shot and killed two people at a bus stop near the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malakhi. 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