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Earthquake Felt On Long Island
Federal officials reported a 4.0 magnitude earthquake Sunday morning. Did you feel it?
LONG ISLAND, NY — Yes, it was an earthquake. Long Island residents were abuzz on social media Sunday morning around 9:15 a.m. after they felt a tremor, asking whether what they had felt was the real thing.
"I was still in bed — and the bed was moving," said Susan Krupski Fisher, of Southold.
According to Brian Ciemnecki, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in Upton, the United States Geological Survey reported a small earthquake centered off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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The earthquake measured 4.0 on the Richter scale, he said. Residents in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Long Island could likely feel the impact, he said.
Some said they felt the quake in East Marion.
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"Of course it's an earthquake, it's 2020," one person wrote.
Most of the Long Island reports of residents feeling the quake submitted to the U.S. Geological Survey were from northern Suffolk County. There were reports of it being felt as far west as Pennsylvania.
If you felt the earthquake, tell the U.S. Geological Survey here.
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