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Green lines are the Ramapo fault. Seismicity of the New York City area is relatively low. [1] New York is less seismically active than California because it is far from any plate boundaries. Large and damaging intraplate earthquakes are relatively rare. When they do occur in the Northeastern United States, the areas affected by them are much ...
1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes Missouri: 7.6–7.9 December 16, 1811 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes Montana: 7.2 August 17, 1959 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake Nebraska: 7.0 November 15, 1877 [48] Nevada: 7.3 December 16, 1954 1954 Fairview earthquake New Hampshire: 6.5 June 1, 1638 1638 New Hampshire earthquake New Jersey: 5.3 November 29 ...
No “life-threatening situations" or damage has been reported in New York so far as a result of the 4.8-magnitude earthquake felt throughout parts of the state Friday morning. The earthquake was ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near New York City on Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said, shaking buildings up and down the East Coast and surprising residents ...
Friday’s earthquake was mild compared with some felt in California or the Caribbean, rating at 4.8 on the Richter scale. But “it’s pretty big for the Northeast,” said Joshua Russell, who ...
On April 5, 2024, at 10:23 EDT (14:23 UTC), a M w 4.8 earthquake occurred in the U.S. state of New Jersey, with the epicenter in Tewksbury Township.While it was felt across the New York metropolitan area, Delaware Valley, the Washington D.C metropolitan area, and other parts of the northeastern United States between Virginia and Maine, it had a relatively minor impact, with no major damage ...
April 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM. The fault that ruptured beneath New Jersey on Friday morning was likely an ancient, sleeping seam in the Earth, awakened by geologic forces in a region where earthquakes ...
The 1944 Cornwall–Massena earthquake occurred on September 5 at 12:38:45 am EDT in Massena, New York. It registered 5.8 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). [2] This area is part of the Saint Lawrence River Valley and the seismically active zone known as the Saint Lawrence rift system.