Magnitude 2.6 aftershock rattles New Jersey as residents say it sounded ‘like a truck was driving by’

A magnitude 2.6 aftershock has rattled New Jersey on the first day of May after a dramatic earthquake shook parts of the east coast in early April. 

The Garden State has been rocked by more than 150 aftershocks since the initial 4.8 magnitude earthquake which centered near Lebanon on the morning of April 5. 

More than 42 million people from New York to Connecticut and Philadelphia felt the first quake, and New Jersey residents have been plagued by tremors ever since. 

People in Bridgewater told News 12 New Jersey that the aftershock at around 7am Wednesday ‘sounded like a truck was driving by.’ 

Others in nearby cities including Mendham, Randolph and Gladstone said they felt the shake. One local said their kitchen counter vibrated for around seven seconds.  

The original quake was the largest to hit New York City since 1884. Governor Kathy Hochul said: ‘This is one of the largest earthquakes on the East Coast to occur in the last century.’ 

People in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Connecticut and other areas of the Northeast reported shaking. 

Tremors lasting for around 20 seconds were felt over 200 miles away near the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. 

People in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Connecticut and other areas of the Northeast reported shaking. Tremors lasting for around 20 seconds were felt over 200 miles away near the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. 

In a video from a New Jersey a dog sits up suddenly, seconds before the rooms shakes violently with belongings falling over. 

And Boonton Coffee shared a video of their shop shaking before customers fled outside. 

A barbershop camera caught the moment an earthquake shook the store a customer grabbed their young son lifted him into the air and carried him outside.

In midtown Manhattan, the usual cacophony of traffic grew louder as motorists blared their horns on momentarily shuddering streets. 

In a video from a New Jersey a dog sits up suddenly, seconds before the rooms shakes violently with belongings falling over

Some Brooklyn residents heard a booming sound and their building shaking. In an apartment house in Manhattan’s East Village, a resident from more earthquake-prone California calmed nervous neighbors.

Experts had previously warned that NYC was long-overdue for a quake. 

The city of 8.5 million people is not a tremor hot spot, but the five boroughs are riddled with fault lines that could bring dozens of buildings down.

NYC typically suffers a considerable quake every 100 years, and the last one was in 1884, meaning it was well overdue for another. 

New Jersey also sits on a major fault line called the Ramapo Fault.