Late on February 2nd, a little after 10:30 pm, a small earthquake struck northern New Jersey. It was a minor earthquake, nobody was hurt and nothing was damaged. A seismologist, Won-Young Kim, says the earthquake had a magnitude of 3.0. On the eleven o’clock news that night, a resident of Rockaway said it “was not a typical earthquake.” He also said, “I’m a native Californian and I have been through several earthquakes. At the very second the floor shook, we heard a big boom, an explosion type of noise. It was like one, quick impact.” The police got many frantic 911 calls saying that people heard the sound of an explosion and houses shaking. Kim said that it was not unusual to have an earthquake in New Jersey. Forty-seven earthquakes have rattled, in New Jersey, since 1974. In my opinion, the earthquake was a big deal to most people in New Jersey, because they did not expect it.
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