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The area within 100km radius of New York City has an intermediate level of seismic activity, more than what is observed in central New York State. [11] It is not as seismically active as California which is located at a transform plate boundary, but large and damaging earthquakes do occur.
On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of Virginia at 1:51:04 p.m. EDT. The epicenter, in Louisa County, was 38 mi (61 km) northwest of Richmond and 5 mi (8 km) south-southwest of the town of Mineral. It was an intraplate earthquake with a maximum perceived intensity of VIII ( Severe) on the ...
Earthquakes in New York City are less common than locations directly on the Mid-Atlantic plate boundary like Iceland and the Azores. The largest known earthquake in this region occurred in 1884, probably somewhere between Brooklyn and Sandy Hook, and had a magnitude of approximately 5. East Coast quakes effect a larger area than quakes of ...
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Los Mochis in the Gulf of California, Mexico, on October 21. [181] A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck the Molucca Sea on October 25. [182] A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Sumatra, Indonesia on October 25, killing 408 and leaving 303 people missing.
April 5, 2024 at 4:33 PM. An earthquake struck the East Coast of the United States on Friday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, causing buildings to shake and rattling nerves from ...
A rare earthquake shook the East Coast on Friday. The quake was centered in Lebanon, New Jersey, a town 50 miles west of New York City. The U.S. Geological Survey has gone back and forth about ...
A 4.8-magnitude earthquake shook the greater New York City area on Friday morning. Unsurprisingly, New Yorkers responded in the most New York way — by making memes about it.
The earthquake that occurred near the town of Au Sable Forks, NY, on the 20th of April 2002 was the largest earthquake to strike the region since 1988 and the biggest to be observed on regional broadband station networks. The shaking was felt in a wide region from Canada to Pennsylvania. This event had a north-south striking thrust (reverse ...