What’s happening in New Jersey? There have been 7 earthquakes near the same location in just over a week.
There have been more than 550 earthquakes in New York State. The first hit the New York City area on December 18, 1737, with a magnitude of 5.2. It is one of two damaging earthquakes to hit the Big Apple.
He biggest earthquake The one that ever hit New York state was on September 5, 1944. A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck near the New York-Canada border and caused damage in Massena and Cornwall, Ontario.
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Western New York It felt its strongest earthquake on August 12, 1929, with a magnitude of 5.2. Its center was near the city of Attica.
He Utica/Rome The area has felt some tremors over the years. One hit Barneveld in 2015 and another at Prospect in 2013. Both were below magnitude 2. Port Leyden, on the other hand, was struck by a magnitude 3.5 earthquake in 1980.
Earthquake shakes New York and New Jersey on the same day
Elizabethtown was the center of the last earthquake in New York State. A 2.1 magnitude earthquake occurred on Tuesday, May 21. The same day, hundreds of miles to the south, another small earthquake shook New Jersey for the fourth time in just over a month.
The first earthquake occurred on April 5 around 10:30 a.m. The magnitude 4.7 earthquake was centered in Tewksbury, New Jersey.
The second earthquake occurred near Gladstone, New Jersey, on Saturday, April 27. It wasn’t that big, it measured 2.9 on the Richter scale.
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The third earthquake had its epicenter once again in Gladstone. It struck on May 1 around 7 a.m. according to the United States Geological Survey. He was the smallest of the three, measuring 2.6 on the Richter scale.
Another small earthquake shook Califon, New Jersey, on Tuesday, May 21. It only registered 1.6 on the Richter scale.
7 earthquakes in 10 days
Califon and Gladstone have experienced seven more earthquakes since May 24, some of them on the same day.
May 24 in Gladstone, New Jersey
Magnitude 2.9 at 07:50:12 (UTC)
May 27 in Califon, New Jersey
Magnitude 1.2 at 00:53:42 (UTC)
May 27 in Gladstone, New Jersey
Magnitude 1.3 at 10:21:18 (UTC)
May 30 in Califon, New Jersey
Magnitude 1.5 at 00:25:12 (UTC)
May 30 in New Jersey
Magnitude 1.4 at 01:40:17 (UTC)
June 1 in Califon, New Jersey
1 magnitude at 10:12:07 (UTC)
June 1 in Gladstone, New Jersey
Magnitude 1.8 at 22:44:55 (UTC)
That would add 9 earthquakes in the same area since May 1.
44 of the biggest earthquakes to hit New York State
New York is no stranger to earthquakes. There have been 44 that hit the state with a magnitude of 3.0 or higher.
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