Crime & Safety
2.2-Magnitude Earthquake Jolts Bergen County Overnight
Scientists confirmed that tremors felt were from an earthquake that originated just across the Hudson River.
BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — It awakened some, and others slept right through it.
Bergen County residents reported feeling tremors at about 2 a.m. from a 2.2-magnitude earthquake confirmed overnight just across the Hudson River.
"Not sure what that was," NBC 4 New York anchor Natalie Pasquarella tweeted early Friday. "Never felt an earthquake before... whew that was odd."
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Seismologists said the earthquake struck two miles south of Hastings-on-Hudson in Westchester County, yet residents over 20 miles away in towns like Dumont and Tenafly reported feeling the impact.
"(My) house shook for a second in Dumont, and (I) heard a boom," a resident commented on a Ring Neighbor alert.
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"Woke me up in Tenafly," another wrote.
Other towns like Demarest, Westwood, Emerson, Closter, Washington Township, Emerson, Haworth reported shaking and rumbling from — what was considered by the U.S. Geological Survey — to be a light-intensity earthquake.
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