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A 4.0 magnitude aftershock hit 37 miles west New York City in New Jersey around 6 p.m. Friday. According to the United States Geological Survey it was felt as far away as Long Island, where there ...
According to the Geological Survey, Friday's 4.8 magnitude earthquake was the strongest to hit New Jersey in nearly 250 years. But Scott Brandenberg, a professor of civil and environmental ...
[2] [3] There were dozens of aftershocks throughout the rest of the week and into the next. [4] [5] It was the strongest earthquake to affect New Jersey since the 5.3 M fa 1783 New Jersey earthquake, [6] and the strongest to hit New York City since an estimated 5.0 magnitude earthquake on August 10, 1884. [7] [3]
The USGS recorded 28 aftershocks following Friday’s rare earthquake, with the largest aftershock – clocking in at a 3.8 magnitude – striking Gladstone, New Jersey, 20 minutes from the ...
A series of smaller aftershocks are expected over the next week after today’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake off the coast of California. More than a dozen have already been reported.
Aftershocks continued Friday after a strong earthquake that prompted a tsunami warning for parts of the U.S. West Coast Thursday. "At this time, there have been 59 earthquakes of magnitude three ...
The USGS estimated that the earthquake could cause economic losses measuring between 1–10% of Vanuatu's GDP. [17] The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated that 116,000 people had been directly affected by the earthquake, [41] equivalent to a third of Vanuatu's population. [42] Among them were 14,000 ...
In seismology, an aftershock is a smaller earthquake that follows a larger earthquake, in the same area of the main shock, caused as the displaced crust adjusts to the effects of the main shock. Large earthquakes can have hundreds to thousands of instrumentally detectable aftershocks, which steadily decrease in magnitude and frequency according ...