A 2.8 magnitude earthquake occurred at about 5:30 p.m ... Many residents flocked to social media to report the quake, responding to a question from local news CBS 6 regarding shaking.

Authorities said residents who felt the earthquake could report it to the USGS website ... Long cited the April earthquake in New Jersey as an example. An 2002 earthquake in upstate New York ...

but it’s not all that rare, either,” said Maureen Long, the chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University. Long cited the April earthquake in New Jersey as an example.