Earthquake hits New Jersey on Ground Hog Day

Yahoo reported: Won-Young Kim, a seismologist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., says a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.0 was recorded at 10:34 p.m. Monday [2 Feb 09], centered in the Morris County communities of Rockaway, Dover and Morris Plains.

[in the general vicinity of Wyeth.]

for New Jersey news.

Elsewhere, the Daily News reported: On Feb. 2, the Staten Island zoo's weather-predicting groundhog, Charles G. Hogg, took a bite out of Hizzoner {Michael Bloomberg]. "He got my finger pretty good," Bloomberg allowed, as he held the recalcitrant groundhog up in the air and declared spring on the way.