Brooklyn students learn about earthquakes after Friday's rumble

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Students at Basis Independent Brooklyn Upper School say the quake triggered an interest in science.

NEW YORK - Students at a school in Red Hook, Brooklyn are excited to learn more about earthquakes after experiencing one firsthand Friday morning.A strange sound echoed through Brian Bissinger's third grade science class Friday morning. The class paused. It was glass beakers rattling in their shelves.'We were like, what is going on, what is that?' said Bissinger, a science teacher at Basis Independent Brooklyn Upper School.

It kind of connects to what we're learning now, we learning about space and how the Earth moves,' Bissinger tells CBS New York's Hannah Kliger.Students in the classroom continued their daily lessons, though the morning's excitement lingered.'I felt like yay I survived a mini earthquake,' Madhosingh says.Senior Alex Rosenzweig, who is set to graduate in a few weeks, felt the rumble from the fifth floor lounge.

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