UN Security Council diplomats were shaken in their chairs, planes were briefly grounded and furniture rattled across New York after an earthquake jolted the city that never sleeps.
No one was hurt, though, and New York’s iconic skyline remained intact.
“I AM FINE,” reports the Empire State Building on its X account.
The tremor had a 4.8 magnitude, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
Near the epicenter in Lebanon, New Jersey, store supervisor Dominika Uniejewska, 50, said “I’m still shaking” after being woken up by the quake.
In Brooklyn, buildings shook, rattling cupboard doors and fixtures, an AFP correspondent reported.
At the United Nations, which has its headquarters in New York, a Security Council meeting on the situation in Gaza was temporarily paused after the tremor.
US President Joe Biden has been briefed on the earthquake, his spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre says.
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