11:00 a.m. eastern. i'm jose diaz-balart. we begin with that breaking news from the northeast just in the last couple minutes. a 4.8 magnitude earthquake in new jersey. it was centered in new jersey. rattled residents from philadelphia all the way up to boston. any injuries as a result are unknown at this time. in new york city where it was felt and felt pretty intensely, governor kathy hochul said her team is assessing impacts and damage that may have occurred. i want to dip into wnbc our coverage in new york. let's listen in. >> this morning in the area of new jersey. what we're waiting for is secondary information about how shallow or deep this earthquake was because certainly it was felt far to the east, far to the north, to the south and southwest around our area and, of course, certainly within the five boroughs of new york. the last quake in new jersey was at white house station on march 14th. that shows you how often we feel some sort of earthquakes in the tri-state area with little to no effect and certainly no headlines. what makes this different is this is a rather strong earthquake for our area. we are going to continue to get you information, but keep in mind -- i want to remind you 2.5 to 5.4 earthquakes are often felt, but rarely cause major damage. typically on the minor damage. the estimated number of earthquakes between a 2.5 and 5.4 are 500,000 a year. it gives you an idea this is not exceptional when you look at this number or occurrence from a global standpoint. certainly in our area -- an emergency reminder going off right now from new york city saying residents are advised to remain indoors. call 911 if injured. we don't anticipate that's the case for most. we're keeping an eye open on all the situations around the tri-state and we'll get that information on how deep this earthquake was and more technical information for you as we dispatch crews to new jersey and also get more seismic information as well. back to you. >> dave, thank you. we got that alert on our phones. most of you did. urging people to stay indoors. no major impacts from this earthquake, magnitude 4.8 earthquake as of now. again, that emergency alert asking people to remain indoors at this time. let's go to andrew siff live at the office of emergency management in downtown brooklyn with what we're learning from officials there. >> reporter: seconds ago, according to officials here at the department of emergency management, we were told there are no reports of damage across new york city, despite the fact that virtually every neighborhood felt this earthquake. at the moment they're breathing a sigh of relief here. we can tell you one representative sample from what principals are messaging parents, yes, we felt it at the school. we're back in and learning. stop calling the school. phones are ringing off the hook. that's a real time sense of what's going on. everyone is telling everyone they felt the earthquake. it was a notable earthquake, but at the moment it hasn't registered any damage. this is watch command. they've assembled representatives from various agencies as well as emergency management techs. they're monitoring on video screens, getting real time data and designating whether other agencies like the fire department, like con edison, anyone that needs to respond. so far there are no reports of power outages or damage across the city. we can tell you that mayor eric adams is on his way here to emergency management. he's planning to brief the city at noon. we understand that governor hochul will join the briefing remotely from albany. that's the level at which this is being taken very seriously. at the moment no emergency response to speak of. that can obviously change because this was so vastly spread out. there may be ultimately some kind of damage report or emergencies that we're not aware of yet. so far not ringing off the hook in terms of an emergency. we heard the warning tone you all heard around 11:00 a.m. that's been signalled from here. for now they're monitoring minute by minute without an emergency response. andrew siff news4 new york. >> comforting to hear that. andrew, thank you. let's go to the phone. steven holler is a seismologist from fordham university. steven, thanks for joining us. big picture here, everyone's saying, wow, i never felt something like this in new york city. how rare is this kind of earthquake in this area? >> this is pretty large for the east coast. this isn't something typical. we haven't been geologically active. >> something that was not typical clearly. it was felt in new york city and in many areas of the tri-state area. i want to bring in our weather producer in midtown new york. katherine, as of right now 4.8 on the scale. that's rather high. >> yes. good morning, everyone. i'm in west midtown. i felt the earthquake from my apartment on the 25th floor. everything shook there for a few minutes and my sister we conferred with each other and all the reports came in. we're sitting at a 4.8 magnitude. just from history here, for perspective, we heard the seismologist say 4.8 is pretty, you know, high up there for this region. new jersey, by the way, is no stronger to earthquakes. we have a fault nearby. that's often where these things occur. again, it's the magnitude. it can often be revised up and down. it went down to 4.7 and back up to the 4.8. this is the strongest earthquake in new jersey history that i could find. newjersey.gov has a nice historical page to reference. the next strongest was in the late 1800s when a 5.2 earthquake occurred. >> it's unusual, but as you point out, it's an area that has some faults and fault lines, the whole tri-state area. i'm thinking back to 2011, august i think it was, when i happened to be in washington, d.c. and an earthquake there was felt 80 miles southwest of d.c. at the time, but that was 5.8 back then. i remember the washington monument was closed for a couple years as a consequence to that. no injuries, but there was structural damages. i'm wondering if we heard anything from our folks in the tri-state area that have seen or heard of any damages. the governor of new jersey has talked about emergency services being out. certainly the governor of new york is going to be speaking shortly i understand on what -- things that the city and state are doing as a consequence and reaction to this 4.8 earthquake that was centered around new jersey. i'm wondering, have we heard anything, any reports of any structural damage or anything else? >> fortunately -- you know, i'm combing social media. we've got the lines open internally and haven't seen any damage yet. however, it still pretty early. it happened within the hour. while no major damage, at least not visibly, we haven't seen reports. a lot of times you have to check structures after an earthquake like this to check for any, you know, hidden weaknesses that may have occurred. i was also in virginia like you with the 2011 earthquake that struck virginia. i happened to be subground in an office when that happened and felt it there as well. that one, like you said, did do damage. 4.8 versus what happened in virginia, it's a good reminder that the magnitudes of earthquakes are exponential. >> as a matter of fact, i may be mistaken, but i recall from covering so many earthquakes over these last decades, is that each point is essentially 100% more intense. so a 5.8 would be 100% more intense than a 4.8 and then either forward or backwards depending on how intense they are. no doubt the fact that it's a 4.8 in the tri-state area, a densely populated area as well. katherine, thank you very much. stay with us. i want to continue monitoring this. i want to bring in my colleague katy tur on the phone in brooklyn. good morning. did you feel it? >> reporter: i did feel it. i was in a coffee shop by my house and the whole bar -- the counter of the coffee shop was shaking. it was so unusual. the level of shaking was so much stronger than we usually feel from a subway or a truck. i pointed it out to the woman behind the counter. she said, no, it's a truck. then i looked at my phone and realized that 20 seconds of shaking was an earthquake and a relatively strong one for this region. the people in the coffee shop, though, they took it in stride. we're so used to in new york city the rumbling of the ground. we're used to the subway going past. we're used to big trucks going by. the buildings usually sway here. a lot of the structures are built to withstand a certain amount of movement, whether wind or on the ground. it's the older structures people are more worried about, the brick structures, the townhomes that have been standing from in some cases 1830. i did some checks of my neighborhood. i spoke to my neighbors. they said the walls are fine, no cracks to be seen. we've experienced earthquakes here before that have caused some damage. this one so far is not the same. there's certainly a sigh of relief for that. when i walked outside, jose, and realized there was an earthquake, i looked around and people were coming out of their doorways, coming to the street, looking at each other saying, did you feel that? how scary is that? are you okay? my daughter was in the kitchen of our house. she yelled by, is that a truck going by? she's just 2 years old and she felt it. it's an unusual experience in new york city where you quick to write-off the rumbling as just regular movement from the subway or a truck. this was a little stronger. >> katy, tough to think back to specifics. did you feel for what 10, 15 seconds, how long was the period you felt that shaking? >> reporter: it was an extended period of time. when i thought it was a truck, i wrote it off and kept on talking. i'm from los angeles, jose. i grew up experiencing some crazy earthquakes, the 6.7 earthquake woke me up out of my bed. my parents were news reporters. i saw incredible damage and felt severe aftershocks from that. anything less than massive shaking of the ground i kind of write-off because of my experience with it. it definitely shook in a different way now looking back on the movement of the counter than we're used to experiencing here. again, because it was so -- not any damage and nobody's been reported hurt, a lot of new yorkers are worried there might be an after shock. should we be concerned about something else? what should i do in a earthquake? it's not a normal occurrence here. beyond the worry there's a feeling of novelty to it. oh, this is what it's like to live in a place where the ground shakes beneath you. oh, this is what californians must experience. again, i mean, you know, jose, new yorkers, they take a lot of things in stride. >> katy tur, always nice hearing from you. always a treat to speak with you. thank you for the opportunity to talk on this very unusual morning. katy tur, thanks. we'll bring in nbc news erin mcloughlin in midtown new york. erin, what are you seeing? are you hearing anything about aftershocks, anything? >> reporter: not at the moment, jose. we understand from our weather unit this is the strongest earthquake to hit new jersey in 250 years. here in midtown manhattan, it's very much business as usual. about 30 minutes after the quake, though, our team received alerts, emergency alerts on our cell phones alerting the public to the 4.8 quake, urging people to stay indoors and call 911 if they're injured. we know that across the tri-state area officials currently are assessing any potential damage we heard from the mayor of new york, his spokesperson saying so far no damage has been reported. that assessment continues. i did, in fact, feel the quake. i was at 30 rock on the 6th floor. frankly it was mild. it felt like a rumbling underneath. it felt like the subway had gone through underneath the new york bureau. some of my colleagues didn't even feel it at all. nevertheless it's unsettling. in that moment it was a bit heart stopping as you're trying to figure out what happened considering earthquakes are unusual for the tri-state area, although not unheard of. again, this is the largest quake in some 250 years that hit new jersey. >> that's the really kind of unusual aspect of it, the intensity of it which is, erin, rare. thank you, erin, for being with us. i want to continue our conversation. i want to bring you up to what we have been learning as of right now. we expect the governor of new york, kathy hochul, to be giving a news conference from albany later this hour, as well as the governor from new jersey, governor murphy, who's expected to speak in the next hour we understand. both have been, of course, organizing a response to this earthquake that struck the tri-state area. right now and listening to erin mcloughlin there seems to be no aftershocks, which is usual and expected after an earthquake of any magnitude, a 4.8 certainly as erin was saying unusual in its intensity for that area of the country. remembering the 2011 earthquake just outside of washington, d.c., caused structural damage to the national cathedral, to the washington monument closed for three years while they rebuilt that structure. as of right now, we have no reports of any damage. we'll continue monitoring the situation. there has been some understanding that there had been some flights that have been temporarily delayed in the tri-state area, arriving to either newark or the different airports in new york. that is at most a temporary pause. everything seems to be back to normal and, erin, i don't know if you're still with us. at least where you are, which is on 6th there, 6th avenue between 50th and 51st, everything seems back to normal. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely, jose. it's very much business as usual here in midtown manhattan. the streets are full of traffic. tourists are out taking photographs, admiring the surroundings. so while this happened just over 30 minutes ago, things seem to be pretty much back to normal. of course when there's an earthquake of this magnitude in this area, the concern is that these buildings -- many of them were very old. they were not built with earthquakes in mind. that has to be playing on the minds of city officials at this point as they assess the impact of this particular earthquake going forward. >> and indeed that's really with all this news coming in, the good news is there seems to be very little or if any at all major damage to any structure. of course, this is still breaking as we're on air. we'll, of course, continue monitoring this thing. 4.8 is what at least preliminarily the authorities are describing this earthquake centered in new jersey, but being felt throughout the tri-state area and even in different parts of the northeast of the country. new york city, back, as katy tur was saying. people just go back to their regular lives after experiencing this. about 15 to 20 seconds is what katy was saying she felt. we'll keep monitoring this. please stay with us. we'll be right back. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. because when you experience europe on a viking longship, you'll spend less time getting there and more time being there. viking. exploring the world in comfort. ♪♪ ugh! nope! try my old spice you can use it on your pits, chest, and even, your... toes? 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