Data: USGS; Map: Tory Lysik/Axios Visuals
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 hit the New York and New Jersey region on Friday morning, followed by an aftershock in the evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), stunning and shocking people who felt its tremors and rumbles.
Why it matters: This appears to be the strongest earthquake to hit the New York area since a 5.2 magnitude quake in 1884, according to a tracker from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
