No tsunami threat detected: moderate earthquake in NJ felt in Dorchester

A moderate earthquake struck New Jersey on Friday morning. People in Massachusetts could feel it too.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported it as a moderate 4.8 magnitude earthquake at 10:23 a.m. The epicenter was in the northwestern part of Lebanon, New Jersey.

At the time of this post, 297 people in the Dorchester area reported feeling the shaking.

The National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, issued a statement confirming that there’s no tsunami threat from this earthquake.

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