CCTV captures homes shaking when an earthquake struck New Jersey on Friday morning.

Resident Rachel Bendock said she felt the tremors that were captured on her camera on her house in Summit, around 30 miles from the epicentre in Lebanon.

She said: 'It was just crazy and my camera caught it. It felt like a train going through my house.

The magnitude-4.8 quake struck at 10:23 local time, sending shockwaves as far as New York, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., and Boston.

Several aftershocks reverberated through the region. These included a magnitude 2.0 aftershock near Bedminster at 11:20 a.m., along with subsequent tremors near Whitehouse Station, Califon, and Chester, ranging from magnitudes 1.8 to 2.2.