"Did you feel that?" Medhi Mammadov's co-workers asked each other as their office on the 27th floor of the iconic Woolworth Building began to shake.
"Did you feel that?" Julie Hendricks-Atkins' colleagues chirped from their cubicles in Lower Manhattan.
"DID ANYONE FEEL THAT?" a resident of the Greenpoint neighbourhood in Brooklyn exclaimed as he burst out of his brownstone.
"What's going on!" A woman across the street shouted back.
"There was an earthquake!" he declared.
The Brooklynite's assessment was correct: at 10:23 local time, New York City and other parts of the north-east had experienced a mild 4.8 magnitude earthquake, originating near Lebanon, New Jersey.
The tremor was strong enough to be felt, but not powerful enough to cause serious harm.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul reported "no life-threatening situations," and damage appeared relatively minimal - a few cracks in the sidewalk in New Jersey, and some items that fell of shelves and smashed.
A residential block in in Newark, New Jersey evacuated homes that sustained structural damage, but there were no injuries reported.
Some people were understandably jolted by the quake. New Yorkers said they could feel their buildings shake, perhaps not the most pleasant experience if you're perched in one of the city's many skyscrapers.
"It was really freaky," Danielle Guida, who was at a gym in Midtown Manhattan, told the BBC. "People were definitely scared."
Razia Sultana, a city employee, said she and her colleagues grabbed their coats and were prepared to evacuate before the rumbling stopped.
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