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Ramapo is a town in Rockland County, New York, United States. It was originally formed as New Hampstead , in 1791, and became Ramapo in 1828. [ 2 ] It shares its name with the Ramapo River .
A damaging earthquake affecting New York City in 1884 was incorrectly argued to be caused by the Ramapo fault, likely because it is the most prominent mapped fault in the greater New York City area. At the present, the relationship between faults and earthquakes in the New York City area is understood to be more complex than any simple ...
Ramapo (occasionally spelled Ramapough) is the name of several places and institutions in northern New Jersey and southeastern New York State.They were named after the Ramapough, a band of the Lenape Indians who migrated into the area from Connecticut by the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
The Ramapo Fault System is the longest in the northeastern U.S., stretching from Pennsylvania to southeastern New York. Map of the Ramapo Fault System: Earthquake epicenter at Lebanon, NJ.
Ramapo documents obtained by The Journal News/lohud under the New York State Freedom of Information Law, show violations at 10 Sky Meadow Road include: Operating a contractor storage yard in a ...
Ramapo plans to sell 22 vacant acres for $1.35 million near Fairview Oval to New Hempstead. A yeshiva is buying five of the acres for $1.2 million. Ramapo land sale could mean park, village hall ...
The Ramapo Mountains are a forested chain of the Appalachian Mountains in northeastern New Jersey and southeastern New York, in the United States. They range in height from 900 to 1,200 feet (270 to 370 m) in New Jersey, and 900 to 1,400 feet (270 to 430 m) in New York.
In top figure, closed red circles show 1924–2006 epicenters. Open black circles show larger earthquakes of 1737, 1783 and 1884. 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.