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The 4.8 magnitude quake, which hit at 10:23 a.m. April 5, ranks as the second most powerful to hit New Jersey going back to 1783, when the north-central part of the state saw a 5.3 magnitude ...
PARAMUS ,N.J. — Northern New Jersey was rattled by a minor earthquake Friday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The magnitude 2.4 quake struck just after 1 p.m. local time and ...
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 ...
An earthquake rattled South Jersey late Friday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed a 4.8 magnitude quake happened at 10:23 a.m. and was centered in Hunterdon County.
The USGS puts the chances of a New Jersey earthquake measuring 4.8 or higher in the next week at 1 in 200, or 0.5%. The odds go down to 0.3% for a quake 5 or above, 0.03% for 6 or above and 0.003% ...
A pie chart comparing the seismic moment release of the three largest earthquakes for the hundred-year period from 1906 to 2005 with that for all earthquakes of magnitudes <6, 6 to 7, 7 to 8, and >8 for the same period. The 2011 Japan quake would be roughly similar to Sumatra. Earthquakes of magnitude 8.0 and greater from 1900 to 2018.
Four killed in a head-on collision of freights near Pineola, Florida. Collision may have been averted had crews agreed to use new radios but refused to unless their pay was increased [168] 1958 Newark Bay rail accident, Bayonne, New Jersey; 48 killed plus 48 injured [169] [170] 1959 Meldrim trestle disaster, Meldrim, Georgia; 23 killed [171] [172]
It maintained its intensity as it reached the Ohio River early in the evening, and the only reported (but unconfirmed) tornado associated with the system occurred in association with the derecho's bookend vortex, and did minimal damage in comparison near Newcomerstown, Ohio, at 6:20 p.m. EDT. [7] As the derecho reached the Ohio-West Virginia ...