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He said his sister, Natasha Daibes, 21, yelled “that was an earthquake,” after the rumbling. But Daibes, 25, and his other family members assured her that surely it was not.
Daibes and his family members knew that Natasha was actually correct in her theory when they heard on the news several hours later that a minor earthquake had occurred just over the New Jersey border in Ringwood "at exactly the same time," Daibes said.
"In our region of the United States, the fault lines experience less tension," he said.
"So when they slip, as all fault lines do, you don't get these significant seismic events as you see in places like California, where the notorious San Andreas fault line is."
The 2.1 magnitude earthquake struck at 12:58 a.m., four kilometers northwest of Ringwood, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
“It’s pretty cool to say I lived through an earthquake,” Daibes said. “Even though it wasn’t anything notable.”
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