From Cape May to Manahawkin and as far west as Gloucester County, residents reported feeling tremors around 2 p.m. Friday.
A loud, sustained rumbling shook residents and buildings along the Jersey Shore on Friday afternoon leading some to speculate on social media that an earthquake could be to blame.or neighboring states as of 2:30 p.m., about 30 minutes after the tremors rattled windows and houses.
“There are some thunderstorms well offshore, but nothing close enough to land where you would be able to hear any thunder, I would think,” said Alex Staarmann, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s regional forecast office in New Jersey. He thinks it would be more likely to have been related to another factor, like a sonic boom from an aircraft, but there’s no way of knowing for sure.
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