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February 3, 2009

Small quake rattles North Jersey

USGS A small earthquake rattled part of northern New Jersey late last night. The tremor was centered in Morris County, 30 miles west of Manhattan and just southwest of downtown Morristown, near the community of Victory Gardens. No injuries were reported.

The magnitude was rated at 3.0 and a depth of about 3 miles.

Residents described the event as a loud "booming," or an underground explosion. Here is a New York Times report on the event, which occurred at 10:34 p.m. EST.

Here's more on the history of earthquakes in New Jersey.

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Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page.

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