>> dagen: terrific coverage there. a fox news alert. a very rare 4.8 magnitude earthquake rattleling the tri state area in new york city a short time ago. epicenter detected near white house station, new jersey. we do want to show you the moment it happened as our fox shows were on the air. watch this. you can see the cameras shaking. watch that. as reports say the earthquake was felt all the way from boston down to baltimore. let's join fox weather's coverage on when this right now. >> emergency operations center has been activated in new jersey. they urge you not to call 911 unless you have an actual emergency. but definitely -- it has a lot of people panicking. >> interesting. jane even you were saying you are speaking with your fiance and mentioning the fact that he felt the shaking. the apartment was shaking. >> this is new york city. how many of us are in high rises at this time of day. right? 36 floors up at the top. imagine that. the shaking being felt not only in new york city. we are getting reports of it in long island, pennsylvania. this is the strongest earthquake that we've felt since 1950 in northern new jersey. >> 4.9 was the strongest they have ever experienced. live shot along sixth avenue in new york city where again we have not only two ground stops at new york's jfk. also across the river. you are hearing an emergency alert tone on all of our cell phones. it is basically saying that a 4.7 -- reiterating all the information. >> thanks for an update. only an hour old. >> it was a very shallow earthquake. >> this emergency alert phone does ask for residents to please remain indoors and to only call 911 if you are injured. that's what the emergency alert tone you just heard is saying. >> this is the strongest quake since 1884 in the state of new jersey. >> we're getting the numbers in. >> even the old timers don't remember this one. sometimes when this happens a 4.7 to 4.8 magnitude the numbers waiver as they geo locate the center of this thing. an after shock is possible. >> i haven't seen it. we haven't felt an after shock. >> it doesn't mean we can't see that happen in the minutes, hours to come. that's a very real possibility. >> the next few days you could feel more. >> air traffic is something we're monitoring. the strongest earthquake since the 1800s, look at the infrastructure and make sure there is no damage. jfk halted all traffic and keeping those planes in their destination. >> if you are on an app now take a snapshot. you will never see for jfk stoppage earthquake. >> newark liberty international. the train that connect mannino to new jersey, hundreds of thousands people take this under water under the hudson subway line and at this point i have not seen any sort of delays with the path system. >> that's a great point. >> the east river crossings around here. you worry about all that. mid town tunnel. we wonder if they will look at it or shut it down. it didn't happen at rush hour. 10:19 a.m. eastern time is when it happened. >> mta, i'm not seeing any sort of emergency alerts on their website. at least for now it looks like things are okay. >> things could start ramping up, though. this is very fresh. we're an hour in. i think it takes some time to get crews together to go out to these destinations. mta, get into the subway, to the airports. i do expect that as the day goes on, we are likely to see more slowdowns and shutdowns to make sure everything is structurally sound. look at the shake intensity. how far you can see this. >> if you think you felt the earthquake in new jersey, pennsylvania, new york. the strongest earthquake new jersey felt since 1884. an epic event for northern new jersey. nobody has felt this before. it was big and shallow. that's why so many people are feeling it is because it was o only 2.6 miles deep. yeah, i tell you what. it was felt by us in studio w big time. >> i add this as well. they will continue, the united states geological survey as they continue to geo locate the center of this thing and get more information. i see their preliminary report that came out at 10:20 this morning eastern time said the depth of this earthquake was a half mile. but now it looks like the newest update is 2.9 miles. >> it's still shallow. >> that's why you can feel it. the shallower it is the more you feel the shaking. you received a bunch of text messages. >> we all did, yeah. >> from lower manhattan a friend of mine. it is being felt all around and it all came at once. >> new jersey, the most densely populated state in the united states. it's incredible how many people are being impacted by this today. millions, of course. when you look at the magnitude for earthquakes we lie within the moderate stage where we could see some minor damage out of this. see how things shape up as crews go out and check for structures. >> is it an old structure? the ones built now are built to with stand a 4.8. we aren't worried about the new skyscrapers. some of the older ones in lower manhattan, you never know. >> i experienced in kentucky a 4.3 magnitude earthquake. not a tremendous amount of damage, cosmetic damage. you may hear your windows start to rattle. you might want to make sure the double-check the alignment when you get home from work. you will start to see some of the paintings on your walls shifting. >> i was just looking up. the last earthquake that i remember feeling, many people can relate to this back in 2011, the virginia earthquake was magnitude 5.8. the shake map stretched into new jersey. there was damage done. >> to the washington monument. they had to close that one down. >> you were in kentucky when i was in kentucky. do you remember the earthquake and feeling any sort of -- have you felt an earthquake before? >> nothing like this. what a remarkable event this is. we were just showing the shake map. it is so localized. we're in studio w, bill and dana were next door when it happens on fox news channel. they didn't feel it. i was on the 15th floor, corner of the building, i didn't feel it. in the newsroom the monitors were shaking. i got a text from a buddy of mine in new jersey he said he thought his building was coming down. it was felt in long island. a buddy to the west of hartford felt it. it will fill in as more reports come in to the united states geological survey. you will see the overall coverage. you guys mentioned the fault line leading to these ground stops. yes, a shallow earthquake at about three miles depth and because of that, again, if we can pull that shake intensity map up, this was widespread across the tri state area. a lot of folks on a friday morning, the last thing they are expecting, we're talking about an eclipse. a big astronomical event. i was at the corner of the building in the fox weather newsroom the monitors were shaking >> there are big cinder blocks and pillars. >> you were in the middle of reading a story. >> we were sitting over here. >> i felt it was like a feeling of being dizzy where i felt i was a little uneven. >> the movie buff i was looking at my cup doing jurassic park. my cup was here and filled and doing one of these things you can see the ripples in my cup. we were looking up. all the lights in the studio started going back and forth. >> you will hear the emergency alert phones. new shake map looking for -- >> this is the strongest earthquake that we've felt in this region. the state of new jersey since the 1800s on record . 1884. >> i felt two as a kid. not like this. >> this is where it tells you where you had weak and moderate shaking. i imagine when they look at this map especially when it comes to looking at structures and looking at structural damage they will target where the moderate to strong shaking was felt where we could see the biggest damage if there is any to these structures. >> matthew, our weather producer behind the scenes. in bridge water, if we were to zoom into that is -- is there a yellow that's right behind that bull's-eye >> this fox news alert. we were covering this incredibly rare earthquake in new jersey as our fox weather team was reporting. the first earthquake in new jersey, the strongest since 1884 in the state of new jersey. so we've got to go back to the 19th century to find an earthquake in that state as strong as the one that has been felt across the northeast. 4.8 magnitude rattling new york city and rattling my co-hosts on the bottom line on fox business sean duffy. his house is roughly seven miles from the epicenter of this quake. sean, just walk us through what you experienced in your home. >> my kids are home on spring break now and sitting in the living room having our cup of conversation and the little ones weren't having coffee but i felt like i heard a boom. we all can't figure out whether it was a sound with it or not but the house started shaking. i've never been in an earthquake before. started shaking in a profound way. so we -- i jumped up and started yelling at the kids. i knew something was wrong. i went to the door, opened it up trying to usher the kids out of the house. they didn't move as fast as i would have liked. the little ones in quick order got out of the house. had a son upstairs who was meandering around as 17-year-olds will do and worked his way downstairs and got him out of the house as well. first time for the duffy family in an earthquake. we had some pictures fall off the walls. it felt like it went on for 15 or 20 seconds. i had some friends at the house who were outside looking at our house as well and said the whole house was shaking, trees were shaking. so listen, it was nerve racking. we didn't know what was going on. i thought it was an earthquake. i thought did someone hit my house? went to twitter and everyone was talking about the earthquake in new jersey. rattled the family. right after when we came back in our family sat down and we all prayed together. again, this is a frightening event and you go back to the basics and for us it was our faith after that event that everyone was okay. praying for others and praying everyone was safe through the ordeal in new jersey. >> dagen: if you've never been through one at first you don't know what's going on, right? >> i didn't know if a line broke and this was a gas leak, something that exploded near our house. we did an after action report with the kids about who did well and who didn't. how we can do better the next time to make sure we get outside as quickly as possible especially when mom and dad are yelling at everybody and you see your house shaking, get outside and pay attention real quickly. we didn't know. it wasn't until i went to ask and there was an earthquake in new jersey. we texted our neighbors and probably 30 minutes later we got an alert from our county that says yeah, it was an earthquake but 30 minutes later we all knew what it was. >> dagen: stay right there. i'm joined by bill hemmer who will take us through the coverage of this rare 4.8 magnitude. >> bill: good to be with you. we don't know. the reason we don't know is because it is out of our control, frankly. the mayor of lebanon, new jersey, which was the epicenter, it may have moved a little bit. the mayor is on the phone with us. sir, good morning to you. i have your last name as pittinger. what did you feel there, sir? >> i was working from home in my home office and felt a shake like i've never felt before living in lebanon. i was having work done outside and this was -- got my heart down to a normal rate i ran outside i thought they hit something or backed their truck into the house or something. it was a craziest thing i've ever experienced. >> bill: mayor, how long did it last? >> just a couple seconds. didn't seem to last too long. it seemed like it started and it was over. >> bill: what have you heard from the folks in your town? >> i'm sitting in the hall assessing it. it doesn't seem, knock on wood, that we have any significant damage at this stage. >> bill: have you heard from anybody there? is there any reporting of damage? >> no reporting so far in lebanon. i can say in my own garage going down there, things were knocked off the walls and everything was all over the floor. it was again something i had never experienced before. >> bill: that's a little more than what we've heard in the city. i don't know how long you have been in that part of new jersey. were around in 2011? >> sure, i lived here for 30 years. >> bill: did you feel it then? >> not that i can recall. like i said i've never felt anything like this anywhere i've lived. >> bill: you say things were knocked off shelves in your garage. what else? >> oh yeah. i had work going on outside. they were all rattled as well. they thought they had done something. we all kind of did a collective sigh of relief that it wasn't anything -- the house didn't blow up or something. >> bill: give us an idea of the street in your neighborhood there. have you talked to any of your neighbors and if so, what have they told you? >> i probably had a call from everybody that lives on my street or text just checking in and yeah, again, i think everybody is rattled. if they are not in town and hearing that lebanon was the epicenter, just calls and texts concerns if there is anything going on. >> bill: sir, thank you so much for your time. can you say your last name? >> it is james pittinger. >> bill: stand by, we may come back to you. we want to get a sense of what people are feeling and how they are experiencing this together, sir. it is good to know that everybody is okay and there doesn't seem to be significant damage of any type that you've seen or heard about. >> not so far. >> bill: have a terrific friday and let's keep it calm. okay. >> well tow try. >> dagen: these alerts don't help with the calm. they came so far after the earthquake happened. it was a little bit jarring for everyone as the alerts were going on. they encourage people not to call 911. >> bill: our building is 44 stories tall. we're right now on the second floor. when dana and i were on the air an our ago it was an hour ago now we felt nothing on the 12th floor. stuart varney felt and saw quite a bit and cb cotton, let's get back to you to gather more about what we're hearing. >> i was on 21 when it happened and i didn't feel much of anything. when i came down here to floor two, that's when everybody in the newsroom quickly started sharing what they experienced. they said it was again 20 to 30 seconds persistent shaking that really scared everyone. no one was sure at the time what exactly was going on. bill, we are expecting new york city mayor adams to do a press briefing in 40 minutes right at the top of the hour at noon to get more information from him. it seems like right now, bill, what we're starting to learn with the initial impact from this earthquake are the transit issues that are coming from this. according to the faa's website there are ground stops at newark, jfk, which are obviously two major transit hubs in the northeast. it looks like there is some type of closure at boston's airport. i don't know if it is related to the earthquake. because of the earthquake at newark and jfk there are ground stops there. new jersey saying there are transit delays of up to 20 minutes in both directions due to bridge inspections following this earthquake. so there are going to be some headaches for commuters this morning as a result of this. right now the one bright spot here in new york city at least is that coming out of the mayor's office they're saying right now and their initial assessment there are no signs of any type of major damage . obviously they still have to assess all five boroughs were tremors were felt from people. somebody telling me in brooklyn it was so strong they were worried the scaffolding on their building would fall off and possibly hurt somebody. so a scary morning for so many people in the northeast, bill and dagen. >> bill: thank you, we'll cut you loose for the moment. come back when you get more. thank you, cb. >> dagen: we have heard that president biden has briefed on the 4.8 magnitude earthquake. the strongest in new jersey since the 1800s, 1884. >> bill: it's interesting. we had dr. marc siegel to talk about a completely different topic. we haven't had a chance to get to him yet. reading the text messages he sent about what people might be feeling throughout the area and maybe this applies to some folks who are watching. maybe it doesn't. he talks about the after shocks and possibility some could feel nausea or some measure of trauma. potential problems of vomiting and balance. and i think that's kind of interesting to see whether or not some folks may be having that sort of experience as we go through this here in the northeast. marc siegel on the line and get him to tell us what he has learned in case is like these. >> dagen: we have new video of the u.n. building as the earthquake was happening. if you can look, this is at the general assembly and watch it to see if you can visibly see. there is the shaking. i'm watching people's faces to see if they even acknowledge what is happening as this earthquake -- you can see in the background people -- look, they're looking around. when you are not used to going through an earthquake, if you have never experienced one or it is so rare particularly here on the east coast, you really do not know what is happening. >> bill: excellent point. >> dagen: people in california you get small tramors quite often. the last big earthquake was 2011 in virginia. that was a 5.8 magnitude. it was quite a bit stronger than the one here in new york city. i was on the 15th floor of a building in new york city at the time and felt it. a shaking. i remember the moment that was an earthquake. i wonder where it was? outside of richmond, virginia. people begin looking around. >> bill: i think your point is well taken. 8:23 in the morning in california and they go through this a lot and we do not. it is a unique experience for us. just like you can imagine how unique it is for those folks whether new yorkers or tourists in time square. for that part of the story alexis mcadams joins us now an avenue away. >> i didn't feel it at work. people here felt the shaking with somebody visiting from denmark. you won't forget the trip to new york city. >> the door was shaking and i fell a little bit in the chair. >> did the person cutting your hair ask if you were okay. >> they didn't know. i didn't think much about it until i got a notification on my phone. >> what are you thinking now knowing this happened here in new york city, this earthquake here? >> i never experienced an earthquake before but yeah, it was crazy. >> was anything falling in the room? just mostly -- >> that was the only thing i noticed. >> thanks for talking to us. glad you are okay. quite a visit to new york. take you this way and show you what the activity is in times square. 4.8 magnitude earthquake confirmed near white house station, new jersey. in lebanon, new jersey resident said they -- a lot of people are out here walk withing around new york city. they thought it was the rattleling of a subway station or it depends who you talk to here. people are looking at me like i'm crazy, what do you mean there was an earthquake, or they felt the tremors in new york city. >> bill: a very natural reaction. thank you for that. >> what are you talking about? >> bill: i can relate. just about a block away. the yankees have their home opener today scheduled for 1:ten, an hour and a half from now, less than two hours. the "new york post" is reporting that yankee stadium felt the quake. the field was shaking and just reading through a little bit of the reporting right there they were taking batting practice with the blue jays at 11:10:00 a.m. they were still on the field taking batting practice. all indications are they will play a game as previously scheduled. >> that is the important stuff for new yorkers is the opening day for the yankees. governor kathy hochul will be giving new yorkers and everyone a briefing at the bottom of the hour about 3 1/2 minutes from now. a little bit more from the white house that the president has been briefed on the earthquake. he is in touch with his team monitoring potential impacts. in touch with federal, state and local officials. >> bill: something from the a.p. to help you out. quake was centered 45 miles west of new york. 50 miles north of philadelphia. a bit of a triangle, new york, lebanon, new jersey, philadelphia, pennsylvania. usgs figures indicate it might have been felt by more than 42 million people. you can certainly understand given the northeast and the amount of population we have in this part of the country. you mentioned this. ground stops in effect at jfk and newark due to the quake in the northeast and see whether or not the reports from laguardia. delays at least 45 minutes. laguardia on a friday on any day is a mess and if they are going to delay things upwards of 45 minutes or an hour, you want to be the one who is not traveling today in or out of laguardia airport. >> dagen: cb cotton as update for us in new york city right now. >> an update on what we're seeing with transit impacts. i told you guys on the air moments ago there were ground stops at newark and jfk. update to that. it's been lifted at jfk but still on in newark. the faa is working quickly after this earthquake. right after they tweeted -- took to social media to say on x, 4.8 emergency -- may impact air traffic operations are resuming as quickly as possible. we saw the two ground stops and now the one over at jfk has been lifted. good news for travelers there. i talked about the transit delays over in new jersey up to 20 minutes in both directions while bridge inspections get underway following the earthquake. now over to philly. transit system is saying no report evidence injuries to customers or employees following the earthquake and here in new york city no major transit impacts. of course, we know city officials are continuing their assessment of all four boroughs were tremors were felt from people talking about the persistent shaking they experienced this morning. as you mentioned we're expecting to hear from governor kathy hochul in moments as she briefs the entire state. people across the region will tune in to listen and see how new york, what the initial steps that new york takes after this earthquake. >> bill: thank you for that, cb cotton. we'll get back to you momentarily. share this from "the new york times." very intriguing and relative to your comment earlier about the west coast versus the east coast. this is unusual stuff for us here. they say earthquakes in new york are a surprise and experts know the ground is not always stable beneath us. a study in 2008 found a magnitude five quake occurred in the area once a century. even larger magnitude seven quake is estimated at once every 3400 years. a sense of relativity for what we live on and what our colleagues and fellow americans live in places like california and the west coast. >> dagen: this is special given the population density but also the buildings in new york city. the height of them, the age of them, and how these buildings were not constructed for -- to be earthquake proof. there are issues to be addressed in terms of say what michael jackson trance -- new jersey is doing to inspect the bridges. a woman was killed several years ago when a piece of the building fell off a few blocks from here. there are really serious concerns after an earthquake of this size hits such a densely-populated area. >> bill: 11:31 in new york. happened around 10:19 east coast time. an hour and 12 minutes into this. is it over? we don't know. tremors can occur for sometime or never. we just don't know. back to meteorologist adam klotz for another look what he is learning from the usgs and others. >> continuing to track the whole situation. interesting here, something you almost would never have seen, jfk at a ground stop. the reason was earthquake as little as 20 minutes ago. that has now been lifted. we are still dealing with these things as they roll in through the area. that ground stop has been lifted that they were dealing with across jfk. this is where our earthquake was. this graphic at times is showing the intensity of where the shaking and how widespread it is. we're seeing it across portions of long island, far south into new jersey, a lot of people really felt the shaking from this. not particularly on the high-end but shaking on the light end across this region. they continue to tweak this number. we're sitting at 4.8. it was 4.7, back up to 4.8, but they are honing in on exactly the magnitude of this earthquake and the location as we've seen the location move here a little bit as well now close to bridge water, new jersey about eight miles away from there. the updates keep coming in as they get this precise on where this earthquake happened and where it struck. still a little bit over an hour ago, right, at 10:19, 10:23. for a while we were saying 10:19. it takes a while to get precise measurements but seems like we're getting closer to this. the ground stops at all of those area airports that shut down for a reason that said earthquake. something i've never seen as we track ground stops at a lot of airports for different weather reasons. earthquake because up there for a while. never seen it before and probably not see it again for a long time. >> bill: let's hope not. we heard from the governor taking questions momentarily, i think. the mayor, eric adams will hold a news conference at noon eastern time. 30 minutes from now. to emphasize other than the mayor there in new jersey we talked to, we have had very little or no reports of any injuries or any damage throughout the new york city area. >> dagen: the empire state building tweeted i'm fine. there is humor in this. federal aviation administration says newark international airport. the ground stop departures are grounded until 12:30 p.m. eastern time. we have this video. take a look at this man in new jersey playing guitar when the earthquake happened. watch this. ♪ >> who is that? >> dagen: you can hear the sound of that earthquake. it does sound like an explosion or freight train, however you want to frame it or describe it. that's bridge water, new jersey, quite close to the epicenter. >> bill: the one thing we didn't have in 2011 is a camera at every corner and a camera in their pocket. we'll see a lot of videos coming into us throughout the day as we move through this story. digital editor for foxnews.com lives -- where are you? okay. you are in new jersey. how far is that from new york and how far is that from lebanon, new jersey, the epicenter? >> about an hour and 15 from the city. from the epicenter not even a mile. my husband works in lebanon and this part of new jersey is very woodsy and hiller. my landscaper told us the fault line runs under the house. when it happened i was working and the house just started shaking intensely. i didn't know what was happening. i was born and raised in this part of new jersey, never experienced anything. it sounds crazy. i thought my propane tank was about to explode. i grabbed my toddler and my heart is racing. my neighbor from california said did you feel that earthquake? that's what it was? it was very strong. i am actually still hearing rumbling. i don't know what it is. just a little bit ago i saw -- a tremor, after shock. i'm not used to this stuff. we are still hearing. >> bill: was it similar to what you heard initially more than an hour ago? >> no, not as strong, definitely not as strong. every five, ten minutes maybe spacing out longer sounds like thunder and i don't know what it is. if it has something to do with the earthquake. i'm hearing it and then like i said a little bit ago again felt something. definitely not as strong but it was something. i don't know if that's the result of the earthquake but like i said i'm right by the epicenter and it was very surreal. >> bill: wow. are you okay? >> i'm okay. took a walk around the house and foundation and chimney to see if there was any cracks or falling bricks and haven't seen any damage. my neighbors haven't reported any damage. so as of right now i think everyone is just kind of still in shock. >> bill: i can hear it. >> dagen: you have a little girl. how is she? >> she is good. it's funny because i'm potty training her this week so she is not wearing clothes, if anyone knows what that experience is like. so when it happened i ran out with her completely naked because i didn't know what was going on. i just grabbed her and ran outside. i didn't know what was going on. if it was my house or it really was trees falling or something. like i said i'm not used to that around here. >> dagen: did she have any reaction? did she know something was going on as well? >> you know, i can't say. i think she felt my concern. my dog, i have a german shepherd, and he definitely felt something. he is actually hiding in the basement right now still terrified. i was talking to my husband and he said he noticed a bunch of birds hiding under bushes right before the earthquake. his store is down in lebanon. so maybe they sensed something. >> bill: i don't want to harp on this but what you were just describing to us a moment ago, is that still happening or is it over? >> well, i haven't heard anything since i've been on the phone with you. but i don't know, i'm anticipating hearing that thundery sound again. i don't know what it's from. it sounds like thunder is the only way to explain it. >> bill: we don't have any day in the city. i don't think we'll get storms after what has been a brutal week of weather in the city. some of the ugliest days of memory were tuesday and wednesday, would you not agree? >> dagen: a couple of days ago i wouldn't have used biblical. today biblical. it has been a biblical week with the storms and now an earthquake. >> bill: ashley, best to you and your young child. thank you for calling in. if you get more of that, let us know. thank you. >> dagen: more video out of central new jersey from the moment the earthquake hit. take a look. that is a doggy playpen we're looking at. it captures and we'll get so much of this video what the room cameras, whether you have a child or a dog, a new puppy, you have cameras trained on them but it does perfectly capture what it is like and it is frightening because it is like a train derailment. it is like a tractor trailer in your front yard and if you have not been there and not been through an earthquake of this magnitude before you have no idea what's going on. >> bill: amtrak with an alert up and down the new jersey. initiated track inspection protocol which should be expected. speed restrictions implemented throughout the northeast until all inspections are complete. slow going on the rail. alexis mcadams with us. >> over here a lot more people felt it than where i was on sixth avenue. people who said things were falling off shelves inside your offices or sitting having lunch when things started shaking. the young kid said when he was getting his hair cut his seat started shaking. their are students visiting. some of them feeling it. people are still out and about including david who is visiting from mexico city. so you were at a deli, one of the best delis in new york and you wanted to sit there and have your lunch and things started shaking and you knew something was going on. tell me what happened. >> that was weird. the first time i see my table shaking and i think this is an earthquake or something related to subway or what happened? the person next to me told me and say this is an earthquake? i don't know, maybe the subway. i am from mexico, earthquakes here are very common. here in new york i never hear something before. >> we are talking 30 to 45 seconds how much this was shaking. it felt like longer as you are sitting there wondering what was happening. >> yeah, 35 or 40 seconds as you say and it was scary the first time but then i see all the people are calm and they are continuing eating so i think oh, it's okay. maybe it's -- >> anything can happen in the big apple. >> bill: that's a fact. thanks, the governor of new york, kathy hochul now. >> these are wide-scale possibilities. this is one of the largest earthquakes on the east coast occurred in the last century. i immediately directed emergency management team the second we received word of this to start doing damage assessments. any life in danger and finding out whether there is any bridges or tunnels that are compromised. that was the first reaction. you will be hearing from the team that is working on that. i also immediately spoke to governor phil murphy to offer any assistance and find out what is happening in his state, which again was the epicenter. our teams have been in constant communication with the mayor of new york and we also spoke to the mta to insure the integrity of the subway system, the port authority and i want to announce that right now jfk and newark airports are on full ground stops to assess any potential or after effects and been in contact with the utility companies to make sure gas and electric services continue. i report that amtrak and mta are full schedule. no disruption at this time. communication with white house. the deputy of homeland security with president biden now surveying the damage in baltimore called us and they felt the effects in baltimore. the white house offered any assistance. senator schumer reach out and offered any assistance. it is most important we have our structural and engineering teams surveying the bridges, roads. make sure that passengers on our rails as well as commuters with safe. assessing allstate roads. we're taking lead on that making sure state roads are safe. major transmission lines and dams. you don't always see the effects of a small crack that could develop into a real major problem and we're also encouraging all municipalities to assess for any structural integrity concerns. at this point heading into an hour and a half after the effects we have not identified any life threatening situations but we're certainly asking our local law enforcement and emergency services teams to be on guard for that as well. but again we will be reviewing all potentially vulnerable infrastructure sites throughout the state of new york critically important in the after math of an event like this. now again a few safety tips. new yorkers aren't accustomed to having earthquakes in our state. everyone should continue to take it seriously. if there is an after shock people are encouraged to drop to the floor, cover your neck and hold on to something sturdy. take caution near any damaged buildings. we don't have reports of damaged buildings at this time. it is very early in the assessment process but if there is an after effect stay away from buildings especially the high rises. if you hear shifting or unusual noises leave your home. go outside. you are safer there than in a building that could be crumbling around you. inspect your home for damage. floor, walls, doors, windows, staircase. if you may need to row locate while the event is going on. check gas lines and waterlines to make sure your family is safe. stay connected an informed. i will say this especially with all the national news about what happened in taiwan with the deadly earthquake just this past week, there is a high level of anxiety around earthquakes. the magnitude that will be explained was a 7.4 magnitude in taiwan. we're 4.8 and they will explain the difference and why we'll continue to take this very seriously and make sure we continue to update all new yorkers. kathryn garcia head of state operations you will' hear from first and then homeland security. >> i want to reiterate we have no reports of damage at this time. and that immediately all of the infrastructure agencies activated policies and procedures to deal with this. while highly unusual in the state of new york, we do actually have fault lines. this was significantly bigger than ones that are typically felt in the state of new york or occur and actually are not felt. that is because earthquakes happen on a scale that means that 3.0 is ten times worse than a 2.0. so a 4.0 is ten times easier than a 5.0. every one of those makes a significant difference in what you will experience and what the damage could be. in addition we are also tracking whether or not there is any increase in hospitalizations or increase in vehicle accidents that have not been reported at this time. >> we did see an overloading of circuits in the new york city area after the event. we've been in touch with at&t and verizon and t-mobile. their networks are up and working and we have opened the state's emergency operations center. we're at a level three to monitor impacts and reports that come in. we have seen one gas leak in rockland county. other than that there don't seem yet to be major infrastructure impacts. we're in touch with the counties and stay in touch with the counties all day. thank you. [inaudible question] . >> the indian point facility in westchester and any concerns there? >> that's part of our analysis of all critically important infrastructure. yes, the communication has gone out. >> we are constant talks with both that facility and our other facilities. there is no damage reported at indian point. we wouldn't expect damage at this time. >> bill: there is the governor from new york. the good news is the news hasn't gotten worse. no reports of damages or injuries thus far in new york. >> dana: they mentioned indian point nuclear facility in westchester county, which i believe when that facility was constructed, the fault, which is the fault that we're talking about here, this construction they took that into account when it was built because of the nature of a nuclear facility. that's always been a point of discussion. >> bill: fort lee, new jersey, which is right across -- slightly west of where we are. right at the base of the george washington bridge. you can see the bottles on this video. roll that and we'll watch it together for the first time. so no audio on there clearly and i don't know what we'll see if much of anything. that looks like somebody's liquor cabinet that might have been the victim of this quake. >> dagen: someone was proud of that liquor display but -- >> bill: perhaps not as dramatic as what we expected. good news. the dean professor of earth sciences university of southern california. sir, thank you for your time and can you just give us an idea of what we're going through or what just happened? maybe what the next part of the story could be? >> yeah. magnitude 4.8 earthquake. we had earthquakes widely felt across the area. 100,000 or more people felt it. these events are common on the west coast. much rarer in the east. they've happened before many times but only every 50 years or so within an area like new york. a wake-up call because we don't expect much damage from magnitude five. people have to check because the events are so rare on the east coast to see what a little motion might do. it is not connected to the earthquake in taiwan recently. they are too far apart to have any connection at all. so to me it's a reminder that earthquakes can happen almost anywhere. >> dagen: should we be careful to watch for after shocks. what's the likelihood of a follow on event, doctor? >> it is much more likely to have earthquakes right after a previous event. with only a magnitude 4.8 the odds aren't high. we have a magnitude three or four, probably one in 100 less chance of having a magnitude five or bigger . time to be alert for the possibility. >> bill: one of our colleagues thought she was feeling it again. that's what she described to us. >> we aren't seeing any on the instruments. there are instruments to pick up small ones and so far there hasn't been any. >> bill: would you know in realtime whether the instruments are telling you that? >> the reports come in within 30 seconds or a minute online. the system is very automated these days. >> bill: to be clear your instruments are not showing any activity right now. >> no, just the one magnitude 4.8 and nothing since then. >> dagen: did the magnitude itself tell you everything about the strength of the quake in this sense, the depths of the quake, the duration, the location, if it had been deeper, longer and in a different place, doctor, what could potentially the damage of this quake have been? >> those are the key elements. the closer it is, the more you will shake. bigger the magnitude the more you'll shake. some earthquakes are sharper than other. when people find the seismo grams to show how the ground moved. 4.8 won't be enough to damage much. >> bill: we have some data here and you know this better than we do. but based on usgs data as of 30 minutes ago east coast time. the third strongest within 250 miles of new york city going back to 1950. that might be a lot of data and a lot of numbers there. but third strongest within 250 miles of new york city going back 70 years. when do you as a seismologist know if quake activity is on the uptick for a certain region? >> well, we have to use statistics. and if from one or two events we can't generate much statistics. if there were an after shock or two we would consider everything normal. continuing earthquakes for a week or two we would think there was something activating the earthquake sequence. so we just have to wait and see. chances are we'll have a few small after shocks and nothing else but i'm sure people will watch the seismographs carefully for at least a couple of weeks. >> bill: i think the work you do is fascinating and how are you alerted that there is seismic activity? is there an alarm on that machine that goes to your phone or to your house? because you have to sleep, too. >> yeah, there are various levels of alert. in california we have an early warning system. as soon as the instrument detect motion they transmit a signal warning people who are connected and you can get five tore ten seconds of warning before the stronger motions come. i personally get texts emails and phone calls from tv stations and i find out quickly afterwards. we can't do better than seeing the first motion on the sensors. it gives us a few seconds. >> bill: thank you for coming on today. terrific information. >> dagen: a pennsylvania resident's reaction when the earthquake hit. >> looks like it is going to be a nice day today. it's raining. what's that? what the hell? that was an earthquake. holy [bleep]. what the [bleep] . did you feel that? >> i did. >> what the [bleep]? >> dagen: probably not the only bombs being dropped, verbal bombs. >> bill: looks like a nice day outside and boom that hits. from fox weather want to get back to jane. thought the conversation we just had with the seismologist in california was interesting. what else are you picking up right now. >> the last time new york or new jersey has felt an earthquake of this magnitude. we've been digging through the numbers. the latest information still at magnitude 4.8. depth is very shallow. we know it is the strongest earthquake in the last 139 years for the new york city area. the previous is back into the 1800s, 1884. strongest in 240 years for new jersey. obviously this has a lot of people on guard. also new information coming in from the usgs there is a 46% chance that we are expected to see a magnitude three or greater after shock in the next seven days. something we'll watch out for very closely in the next week. of course, the structure damage reports are being made as they scour about throughout the area, new jersey, pennsylvania, new york where the shaking has been fight. a seismometer from pennsylvania. the initial stages of where that earthquake began to pop off on our map, that's the blue lines here where we had the magnitude and shaking, of course. and the shaking felt moderately to strongly especially across north central new jersey. bridgewater a couple miles away and the shaking which is off to the eastern tip of long island. we're also keeping our eyes closely on travel. we know that airports have been shut down briefly at some point this morning. we know newark is in a ground stop until 12:30 eastern time. they have done inspections and don't see any damage right now. amtrak doing their own inspections. they have initiated earthquake protocols and we'll follow the amtrak trains heading up and down the northeast corridor. close to where we had the earthquake over an hour ago. this is very fresh. all of this new information will continue to come in but imagine that, no one has been alive to feel an earthquake this strong in new york and new jersey. >> bill: terrific work there. to all our colleagues at fox weather thank you so much. oftentimes we go to our colleagues at fox weather and talk about storms and things like that. this is a different day and different time in the city of new york, the city we love. a brutal week of weather in the northeast. storm after storm non-stop rain and flooding throughout the area. and today was really the first big break and we were about to head into a weekend where the weather was more favorable feeling more like springtime and this hits. we have some shaking in the northeast and millions of people. one estimate says 42 million americans felt the shake from 10:19 eastern time about an hour 40 minutes ago. that's the end of this hour. we move to the noon eastern hour right on the fox news channel and we're updating waiting an update, rather, from the new york mayor, eric