NY earthquake in Westchester County felt by some in North Jersey

The aftershocks of an earthquake in Westchester County overnight Friday could be felt in North Jersey as it left some residents wondering what happened.

A 2.2 magnitude earthquake was confirmed around the Hastings-On-Hudson and Yonkers area around 2 a.m., according to the United States Geological Survey. A 2.2 earthquake is considered mild and is often not felt by everyone, according to Britannica.

This one left its mark with some in North Jersey, though. A top post on the New Jersey subreddit asked if anyone else heard a "massive boom" in eastern Bergen County. The original poster thought it could have been a blown transformer, jet or meteor before someone presented the info from the USGS about the earthquake.

Another poster said they were in Cresskill and their whole house shook while a tree fell outside.

Others took to Twitter for answers. Natalie Pasquarella of WNBC News tweeted that she woke up to a "huge rumble" in Bergen County and that her house shook.

"Whew that was odd," she posted adding she never felt an earthquake before.

Major earthquakes are rare and do not crack the ground surface in New Jersey but are more likely in the northern part of the state where fault lines are concentrated, according to the NJ Department of Environmental Protection. An earthquake with "maximum intensity" has not happened in the New York City area since 1884, per the DEP.