Ground shaking reported in South Jersey area, officials investigating cause

There were some reports earlier today of an natural disaster in southern New Jersey, but according to the U.S. Geological Survey, it was actually a sonic boom. A spokesperson for Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst says, “It was not us”.

“It looks like a sonic boom, the way it is spaced and timing wise”, said John Bellini, geophysicist, with the Golden, Colorado-based federal agency. All aircraft operated there are subsonic, so no sonic booms would be produced.

He said the USGS was investigating to determine what happened.

Adam Cattell, a Cinnaminson resident who was in Wildwood at the time of the tremors, said he noticed the tremors around 2 p.m.

The Ocean County Sheriff’s Office asked people to not call 911 and that there have been “no reports of military training or an natural disaster”. New Jersey State Police tweeted: “We are not reporting any type of seismic blasts anywhere in NJ”.

“We are aware of the ongoing tremors”, the Brigantine Police Department said.

People in Madison, Guilford, Norwalk and other CT shoreline towns seem to have felt the tremors, and many wondered if it was an quake.