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Published: Feb. 3, 2009 at 12:48 PM

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ROCKAWAY, N.J., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A seismologist says the
small earthquake that was felt in New Jersey overnight wasn't as unusual as
people might think.

Won-Young Kim of the
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., told The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) that there was
a small temblor measuring 2.0 on the Richter scale in the same area last
summer.

Monday night's shaker reached 3.0, which Kim said was a good size for the
Northeast.

The Times said Tuesday that no damage resulted from the quake, which struck
just after 10:30 p.m. EST about 35 miles west of Manhattan.

"It was a loud boom and after that it shook the whole building," Tom Smaga,
who was working at a gas station in Rockaway, N.J. at the time, told the
Times.

Other Rockaway residents described a "bang," a "loud thump" and a "low
rumble."

"It was very scary," said Patricia Avila, who was in her second-floor
apartment at the time, the newspaper reported.

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