NEW YORK, April 5. /TASS/. The John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City is functioning normally after the earthquake in the adjacent State of New Jersey, an airport’s spokesperson told TASS.

The airport continues working as usual, she said. No flights were canceled and airplanes continue landing and taking off, the spokesperson noted.

The earthquake with the magnitude of 4.8 took place on Friday in New Jersey at about 10:23 a.m. local time [14:23 UTC]. The source was at the depth of one kilometer, five kilometers away from Lebanon. The borough’s office told TASS that no information about destruction or injured person was received.

The earth tremor was also experienced in many New York boroughs. A meeting of the UN Security Council was interrupted for a while due to the earthquake.

The previous earthquake with the magnitude above 4 occurred near New York in October 1985, according to the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.