Celebrities have collapsed after a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck near New York City.
The Big Apple, along with New Jersey and Philadelphia, was rocked by tremors on Friday, with people reporting “buildings shaking.”
New York State Governor Kathy Hochul said her team was ‘We are assessing the impacts and any damage that may have occurred, and will update the public throughout the day.
Dozens of famous faces, including Jessica Chastain, Barbara Corcoran and Bethenny Frankel, rushed to react to the phenomenon.
New York, along with New Jersey and Philadelphia, was shaken by an earthquake on Friday, with people reporting “buildings shaking.”
Real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran, 75, was one of the first to mock the situation on Instagram.
Real estate magnate Barbara, 75, was one of the first to mock the situation.
She took to Instagram to share a clip of her standing in a bathtub with a cup of coffee in her hand while comically swaying back and forth.
The overlay text read “everyone in New York right now” before adding a backing track of Carole King’s I Feel The Earth Move.
Former Real Housewives of New York star Bethenny also shared a video on her Instagram Story in which she addressed her 3.3 million fans.
‘Did anyone else just feel an earthquake? Because I felt like the earth was moving under my feet. I thought a plane was going to enter my house,” she stated.
‘There was only one earthquake… Was there only one earthquake?’
Fellow New Jersey housewife Melissa Gorga shared images from inside her home that recorded the tremors along with a caption that read: ‘EARTHQUAKE in New Jersey! My God!!
‘I just ran up the stairs from the basement/exercised while calling 911 because it sounded like a stampede was happening upstairs and then I got a notification on my phone that my front door was open. It was driving me crazy! That was the first time! #njearthquake.’
Former Real Housewives of New York star Bethenny also shared a video on her Instagram Story in which she addressed her 3.3 million fans.
Fellow New Jersey housewife Melissa Gorga shared images from inside her home that recorded the tremors along with a caption that read, ‘EARTHQUAKE in New Jersey!’
Elsewhere, former CNN anchor Don Lemon, who is set to marry his former partner Tim Malone in Manhattan this weekend, took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to write: “Just had an earthquake in New York. Did you feel it?’
This was echoed by actress Busy Phillips, who also noticed the shaking, adding: “I don’t want to be weird, but was there just an earthquake in New York?
‘Like guys. I think there was an earthquake in New York.
Oscar winner Jessica Chastain commented: ‘Did we just have an earthquake?! NEW YORK.’
He then shared a subsequent tweet that read: ‘This is really crazy. I hope everyone is okay and that our buildings were not damaged.”
Snow White star Rachel Zegler referenced Beyoncé’s new album, joking, “In my opinion, the earth was just listening to Cowboy Carter… Shaking some butts… shaking for real.”
Media personality Megyn Kelly posted that she had felt the shaking in Connecticut and asked, ‘Did we just have an earthquake?’ (In CT).’
Talk show host Andy Cohen posted a video from inside the gym in which he shared, “I was too busy… to feel the earthquake.” We’re not sorry’
Dozens of other famous faces took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to react to the phenomenon.
After the earthquake, talk show host Andy Cohen posted a video from inside the gym in which he shared, “I was too busy… to feel the earthquake.” We’re not sorry.
‘No one in the gym felt it. Everyone in the locker room felt it. That’s our update on the earthquake.
Elsewhere, Today’s Al Roker shared a view from inside his Manhattan office as he spoke: ‘We were having a discussion… and suddenly we felt this move.
“My dressing room is right above the prop area and all of a sudden I felt a tremor and I was like, ‘wow, what was that?’
Initially, the group thought it was fixtures moving underneath, but they later discovered the earthquake was the cause.
He wrote: ‘Wow!!!!! Earthquake. As far north as Oswego, New York, and as far south as southern New Jersey.
Elsewhere, Today’s Al Roker shared a view from inside his Manhattan office as he spoke: “We were having a discussion… and suddenly we felt this move.”
The epicenter of the earthquake was near Readington in Hunterdon County in New Jersey, according to Governor Phil Murphy.
American commentator Chris Hayes added: ‘Uh, that was an earthquake in New York?
Cara Buono, who played Karen Wheeler in Stranger Things, also revealed her unique experience during the earthquake.
“I haven’t been here in a while, but what are the chances of being in an earthquake in the middle of a mammogram in New York?” she wrote.
‘The lovely technician and I had a good laugh (when it was over). Even when there is an earthquake it is important to get a mammogram! #earthquake #nyc #mammography.’
Experts had previously warned that an earthquake in New York was long overdue.
The city of 8.5 million people is not considered an earthquake hotspot, but all five boroughs are plagued by faults that could topple dozens of buildings.
The epicenter of the earthquake was near Readington in Hunterdon County in New Jersey, according to Governor Phil Murphy.
The FAA has ordered ground stops at John F. Kennedy and Newark international airports.
People in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Connecticut and other areas of the Northeast reported shaking. Tremors that lasted several seconds were felt more than 200 miles away, near the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border.
President Biden has been briefed on the incident, according to the White House.
New York last experienced a significant earthquake in 1884.