A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck the New York City region on Friday morning, and shaking was experienced during a UN security council meeting. A camera inside the meeting captured the moment the tremors began during a speech by the president of Save the Children, Janti Soeripto. She paused her speech and asked another attender: "Is that an earthquake?" A member of the meeting can then be heard joking to Soeripto that she had caused the ground to shake, before the meeting resumed New York City shakes as 4.8 magnitude earthquake hits US north-east