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New Jersey doesn't typically come to mind when you think of earthquakes, but the state has already been rattled by two this ...
The recent, small earthquakes that rattled the New York metro area serve as a reminder that seismic activity does occur in ...
It’s not clear what is causing the big uptick in earthquakes in the Garden State region, but research suggests a consistent ...
Northern New Jersey recorded its second earthquake of the month Tuesday afternoon when a small 0.4 magnitude tremor struck about 2 kilometers southwest of Hillsdale. The U.S. Geological Survey ...
Roughly 60% of the city’s buildings were constructed before 1940, well before the city updated its building codes in 1995 to ...
According to the NESEC, the largest earthquake centered in New York state happened on September 5, 1944. The magnitude 5.9 ...
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake was reported in Indonesia on Tuesday (August 12), according to the United States Geological Survey ...
The earthquake hit in the New Jersey suburb of Hasbrouck Heights at about 10:18 p.m. Eastern time at a depth of about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers). It was felt fairly widely in northern parts of the ...
The East Coast is crisscrossed with ancient faults, including the Ramapo Fault that runs through southeastern New York.
Over 185,000 people in New Jersey are under a boil water advisory for a third day after a water main break in Paterson early ...
If there's an earthquake and nobody feels it, did it really happen? Yes, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.