Director Simone P. Bourgeois points to an earthquake registered by a seismograph at the Sea Lab Marine Science Education Center in New Bedford, Mass., Friday, April 5, 2024. An earthquake shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with residents across the Northeast reporting rumbling in a region where people are unaccustomed to feeling the ground move. (Peter Pereira/The Standard-Times via AP)