UPDATE: Earthquake Hits New Jersey, Lasts About A Minute

You probably didn’t feel it. But the earthquake was real.

A small earthquake that lasted about a minute hit the Monmouth and Ocean County area in New Jersey early Saturday, causing some shaking that could be felt miles away.

There were no reported injures or structural damage as a result of the earthquake.

The 1.9-magnitude earthquake, which occurred at 7:13 a.m. Saturday, originated about 4 miles from Shrewsbury, 16 miles east of Trenton and and about 5 to 10 miles south of Freehold, said Dale Grant, geophysicist for the U.S. Geological Survey.

“You had a real earthquake,” Grant told Patch late Saturday.

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Grant said residents in Jackson and Roosevelt reported feeling the earthquake, but others reported feeling it in Middlesex County and elsewhere in central New Jersey.

Officials say: Don’t worry about aftershocks. Earthquakes in New Jersey and Pennsylvania do happen, but they’re usually very small. The U.S. Geological Survey has not even listed this one on its website, noting that it typically recognizes earthquakes that measure higher than 1.9 on the Richter scale.

The earthquake pales to the tremors felt in New Jersey in August 2011, when a quake originating in Virginia measured a 5.9 on the Richter scale.

In that episode, reports came from residents along the Lakewood border, on Route 70, in downtown Toms River and in East Dover describing the ground shake. Residents in two-story homes reported feeling and seeing their houses swaying; picture frames on walls rattled against the wallpaper.

Pictured: seismicity map for central New Jersey from 1973 to March 2012.

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