EARTHQUAKE IN PENNSYLVANIA

Magnitude 4.8 earthquake rocks Northeast U.S., recorded three miles northeast of Lebanon NJ

The earthquake rumbled Wissahickon area homes and businesses at 10:23 a.m. Friday

(Credit: U.S. Geological Survey)

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake at a depth of one kilometer rumbled and shocked the southeastern Pennsylvania region and beyond Friday morning, including as far north as Connecticut, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

At 10:23 a.m., the earthquake was recorded three miles (five kilometers) northeast of Lebanon, New Jersey, according to USGS.

At 7:03 a.m. Friday, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake was also reported 275 miles from Dandan, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, and on Thursday, a 4.4 magnitude earthquake was reported near San Francisco, CA.

On Wednesday, Miyagi, Japan recorded a 6.1 magnitude earthquake, according to USGS.

According to USGS, on March 28 at 8:20 a.m, an earthquake occurred. two miles east-southeast of Ledyard, Connecticut.


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Tony Di Domizio

Tony Di Domizio is the Managing Editor of NorthPennNow, PerkValleyNow, and CentralBucksNow, and a staff writer for WissNow. Email him at tony@northpennnow.com. Tony graduated from Kutztown University, under the tutelage of Dr. Matthew Nesvisky and Dr. Heather Thomas, and went on to serve as a reporter and editor for various news organizations, including Lansdale Patch/AOL, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., and the weekly Chronicle news editions of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. A fourth-generation Lansdalian, he was born and raised in and around the Borough, including Little Italy, and attended North Penn High School, graduating in 1998. He once interviewed Jesse Spano in the back of a limousine outside North Penn High School.


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