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Image: 4.8 Earthquake In New Jersey Rattles New York Metro Area (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near New York City on Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said, shaking buildings up and down the East Coast and surprising residents ...
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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. Large and damaging intraplate earthquakes are relatively rare. When they do occur in the Northeastern United States, the areas affected by them are much ...
Seismicity of New York Seismicity in New York City area. Data from U.S. Geological Survey (Top, USGS) and National Earthquake Information Center (Bottom, NEIC). 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.
The earthquake, along with a magnitude-5.8 quake on the border of New York and Ontario in 1944, is the largest to have occurred in the U.S. east of the Rocky Mountains since an 1897 quake centered in Giles County in western Virginia [22] [23] whose magnitude has been estimated as 5.8 [24] or 5.9. [25]
Hundreds in New York City said they were jolted awake by the rare earthquake, ... Further north in New York City, a 1.7-magnitude earthquake was reported just before 6 a.m. in the Astoria, Queens ...
An estimated 4.8-magnitude earthquake shook parts of New Jersey on Friday morning, sending tremours throughout the greater New York City area.. Around 10.20am residents of New York City, New ...