New Jersey was the epicenter of a 4.8 magnitude earthquake that affected a large portion of the northeast on Friday, April 5.The initial earthquake occurred at about 10:23 a.m. near Califon, New Jersey.No injuries were reported in Livingston related to the quake and several subsequent aftershocks, one of which reached 4.0 on the Richter scale.Livingston Public School officials noted that a thorough inspection was done of all district buildings and that there was no damage seen to any of them.In all, about 42 million people experienced the earthquake last Friday; it reached as far south as Washington, D.C. and as far north as the New York-Canada border.
