{"id":121012,"date":"2026-02-03T06:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121012\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T06:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:38:23","slug":"did-you-feel-it-earthquake-reported-in-nj-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121012\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you feel it? Earthquake reported in NJ on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/screenshot-2026-01-31-091432.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">WHITEHOUSE STATION , N.J. &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/weather\/earthquakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">small earthquake<\/a> was reported in New Jersey on Friday as the region braces for more bitter cold and continues to clean up after this past weekend&#8217;s snowstorm.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">A 2.4-magnitude earthquake was reported near Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, around 8:42 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Whitehouse Station is in Hunterdon County, which is about 60 miles outside New York City.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">More than 200 people reported the <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us6000s5lx\/dyfi\/intensity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">quake to the USGS<\/a>, stating they felt weak to light shaking, with intensity reaching just 2\u20134 out of 10.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">No damage has been reported.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Earthquakes with a magnitude of 3.0 and below are not considered to be very dangerous or damaging, according to the USGS.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">New Jersey doesn&#8217;t typically come to mind when you think of earthquakes, but the state was rattled by two in just one month this past summer.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">In August, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/earthquake-reported-nj-miles-outside-nyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2.7-magnitude earthquake hit New Jersey<\/a>, just outside of New York City. It came just days after another earthquake was reported in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, at a 3.0 magnitude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from this article was sourced from the USGS and previous reporting by FOX 5 NY.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/nj\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/weather\/earthquakes\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Earthquakes<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article WHITEHOUSE STATION , N.J. &#8211; A small earthquake was reported in New Jersey on Friday as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8445,9,24,12,2223,63,134,136,135,618,133],"class_list":["post-121012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-earthquakes","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nj","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-us","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}