{"id":159265,"date":"2026-03-10T15:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159265\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:37:17","slug":"magnitude-2-3-earthquake-reported-in-sleepy-hollow-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159265\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 2.3 earthquake reported in Sleepy Hollow, New york"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-text\">While you may think quakes are a western US problem, some of the largest temblors in US history have happened in the East.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y.\u2013 Westchester County reported shaking from a magnitude 2.3 earthquake on Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The earthquake was reported at 10:17 a.m. Eastern, roughly half a mile from the town of Sleepy Hollow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">According to U.S. Geological Survey data, the earthquake was 4.6 miles beneath the surface.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ny-earthquake-locator.png\" alt=\"magnitude 2.3 earthquake location. \"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">magnitude 2.3 earthquake location.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\"> (FOX Weather)<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Light shaking was reported all through Westchester County, from Sleepy Hollow up north into Hudson Valley and south into Yonkers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Sleepy Hollow is a popular tourist location in the Northeast, known for its spooky lore of the Headless Horseman in &#8220;The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,&#8221; a famous short story published by Washington Irving in 1820.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-458416102-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"SLEEPY HOLLOW, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2014\/10\/27: Town clock with autumn decorations.\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">SLEEPY HOLLOW, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES &#8211; 2014\/10\/27: Town clock with autumn decorations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\"> (John Greim\/LightRocket\u00a0 \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">No immediate damage was reported in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">There have only been 20 earthquakes of at least a 2.3 magnitude in this vicinity since 1950, making this a rare occurrence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">This is a developing story. Check back for more updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While you may think quakes are a western US problem, some of the largest temblors in US history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8445,899,9,11,10,8386,46660],"class_list":["post-159265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-earthquakes","tag-extreme-weather","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-northeast","tag-weather-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159265","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=159265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}