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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 ...
Then an aftershock hit — a magnitude 4, according to the U. S. Geological Service. “It was terrifying,” Kolawole recalled. “It felt like a landslide.”
Another aftershock hits Central Jersey following 4.8 magnitude quake in April. This map shows where a 1.6 magnitude earthquake struck at 5:11 a.m. Monday, about a mile and a quarter west of ...
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% ...
Ramapo Fault. The Ramapo Fault zone is a system of faults between the northern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont areas to the east. [1] Spanning more than 185 miles (298 km) in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, it is perhaps the best known fault zone in the Mid-Atlantic region, and some small earthquakes have been known to occur in its ...
An earthquake shook New Jersey, parts of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and the surrounding area Friday morning. ... 2.0 aftershock hits Bedminster. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, an ...
e. 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 ...
The USGS reported Friday morning that there was a 38% chance of an aftershock measuring magnitude 3.0 or more over the next week, ... so while the New Jersey earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 ...