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Sunday 11 December 2011

US: Something Shook New Jersey on Saturday, But it Wasn't an Earthquake

Local residents felt a slight tremor at about 10 a.m. Saturday. Residents in Newark, Bergen County and Sussex County felt it, too - something that made houses shake and water ripple. It wasn't an earthquake. But what was it? U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Paul Caruso isn't sure. "We received a number of reports that people felt something," Caruso said from the National Earthquake Information Center in Colorado. "We don't know what it was." Local residents took to Facebook and Twitter to describe what they thought was an earthquake...read more>>>...