NEW YORK (AP) — A 1.7 magnitude earthquake that hit New York Metropolis early Tuesday might have brought on a sequence of small explosions on an island between Manhattan and Queens, officers mentioned.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the quake occurred at 5:45 a.m. close to the Astoria part of Queens. There have been no reviews of accidents or structural injury and no impacts to transit, visitors or utility providers, New York Metropolis Workplace of Emergency Administration spokesperson Aries Dela Cruz mentioned.
Some residents of Manhattan and Queens reported what appeared like small explosions shortly earlier than 6 a.m. coming from Roosevelt Island, a 2-mile (3.2-kilometer)-long strip of land within the East River between the 2 boroughs.
Allan Drury, a spokesperson for Consolidated Edison, mentioned officers on the utility suspect that the quake brought on the explosions, since they occurred across the identical time.
Drury mentioned there have been no energy outages.
The New York Metropolis earthquake occurred a couple of hours after a 2.3 magnitude quake was reported within the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. No accidents or injury had been reported following the sooner quake both.