[WATCH] Water Main Break In New Jersey After 4.8 Earthquake

After a historic 4.8 earthquake rocked the Northeastern United States, a small town in New Jersey experienced a water main break Friday afternoon.

“It’s been a few hours since that 4.8-magnitude earthquake happened here in the Tri-State Area, and the effects of it are being felt all over,” CBS 2 News reporter Shosh Bedrosian said.

“Right now, we are in Randolph, New Jersey, where a water main break happened. Take a look at this street right now. It is completely impassable,” she continued.

“Residents say this street nearly exploded around 1 p.m. when this water main break came up above the road. As you can see, this entire road swept into the water here,” she added.

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The Earthquakes in New Jersey Today Caused This Massive Water Main Break in Randolph

“This street nearly exploded around 1pm” pic.twitter.com/cokTQaNbAI

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Patch reports:

A water main break is affecting traffic in Chester and Randolph on Friday afternoon, police said.

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Ironia Road is closed at the border between the two towns because of the break, officials said at 1 p.m. In Randolph, Pleasant Hill Road is closed from the Chester Township line to Park Avenue.

Randolph PD said the break was in the area of Park Avenue and Pleasant Hill Road.

Patch reader Ed Eberhard said he was driving home from work when he saw a pool of water in the road and noticed it beginning to roil.

He said began to turn his car around when it “just went off.” He sent Patch several photos that he took while on the phone with first responders.

“Absolutely insane amounts of water were spewing out of it,” he said.

The earlier quake ruptured a waterline under this road in Randolph #NewJersey pic.twitter.com/88qzrHILdv

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Friday's earthquake​ is being blamed for a water main break in Randolph that sent water gushing into the middle of a street. @ShoshBedrosian reports. https://t.co/WniFPNk3FG

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From CBS New York:

Friday’s earthquake is being blamed for a water main break in Randolph that sent water gushing into the middle of a street.

Residents on Pleasant Hill Road dealt with water rushing down their street for hours, saying the pressure of the water was at its highest point for over an hour.

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“It was like a fountain, like a geyser, just water spewing up,” resident Lisa Narcise said.

For an hour and a half, Narcise says she watched the water main break gush, completely soaking the house across the street.

“I looked out the front, and I saw just brown water rushing down like a river,” she said.

CBS New York provided additional coverage: