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Map depicting the extent of the Ramapo Fault System in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The Ramapo Fault zone is a system of faults between the northern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont areas to the east. [1]
Map depicting the extent of the Ramapo Fault System in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The Ramapo Fault, which marks the western boundary of the Newark rift basin, has been argued to be a major seismically active feature of this region, [22] but it is difficult to discern the extent to which the Ramapo fault (or any other specific ...
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.
In New Jersey, fault lines do not generally break the Earth's surface, but are based several miles below. A map showing the physiographic provinces in New Jersey, and the location of the Ramapo Fault.
Ramapo Torne in Harriman State Park, part of the Ramapo Mountains. 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.
Scientists suspect that the earthquake likely originated in the area of the Ramapo fault zone in the Newark basin. The fault system contains a branching network of faults. Some are mapped but ...
The fault runs for about 185 miles from New York, through New Jersey — beneath Passaic, Morris, Somerset and Hunterdon counties — and on into Pennsylvania in a northeast-southwest orientation.
Ramapo Fault; N. 2024 New Jersey earthquake; S. Seismicity of the New York City area This page was last edited on 5 April 2024, at 17:27 (UTC). Text is available ...