Small earthquake shakes NYC metro area By LUKAS I. ALPERT The Associated Press 10/27/01 4:57 AM NEW YORK (AP) -- A minor earthquake shook the New York City metro area early Saturday, knocking pictures off walls, breaking china and rattling the nerves of some still jumpy in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A magnitude-2.6 earthquake hit under lower Manhattan around 1:42 a.m., said Dr. John Ebel, director of the Weston Observatory at Boston College, which monitors seismic activity in the Northeast. "That's more than a tremor. That's a small earthquake," Ebel said. At first police scrambled ...
