(Photo : Dave Scipione/X)
Two cracks appeared in a New Jersey street after a 4.8 earthquake hit the area.

A rare 4.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the New York metropolitan area on Friday appeared to create two cracks on a road in New Jersey.

"Earthquake outside my home in Union, N.J.," Dave Scipione wrote on the social media platform X.

  "Lived 10 years in San Francisco and never felt one like this - two giant cracks in the street," he said in the posting, linking to a video of the cracks.

The tremor hit around 10:30 a.m. in Whitehouse Station in New Jersey, about 60 miles west of New York City and could be felt in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.