A 4.8 magnitude earthquake jolted the East Coast earlier this month but ... The Ramapo Fault zone is a series of small fault lines that ... relationship between old faults and modern earthquakes." ...

The 4.8-magnitude earthquake on the East Coast Friday came from ancient dormant faults. The faults formed when two continents collided about 500 million years ago, creating the Appalachians and ...

Blame ancient fault lines and bedrock for the jolt. Skip to main content. Open ... “Earthquakes on the East Coast are felt much farther—four or five times farther—than a similar ...

The West Coast lies on a boundary where sections of Earth’s crust rub together, causing stress and slippage along fault lines that generate earthquakes relatively often. East Coast quakes like ...

Earthquakes large enough to be felt by a lot of people are relatively uncommon on the East Coast. Since 1950 there have been about 20 quakes with a magnitude above 4.5, according to the United ...

East Coast residents were jolted Friday by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Lebanon, ... causing stress and slippage along fault lines that generate earthquakes relatively often.

The West Coast lies on a boundary where sections of Earth’s crust rub together, causing stress and slippage along fault lines that generate earthquakes relatively often. East Coast quakes like ...

East Coast residents were jolted Friday by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, with weak rumblings felt as far away as Baltimore and the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border.

The 4.8-magnitude earthquake on the East Coast Friday came from ancient dormant faults. The faults formed when two continents collided about 500 million years ago, creating the Appalachians and ...

East Coast residents were jolted Friday by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Lebanon, ... causing stress and slippage along fault lines that generate earthquakes relatively often.

Earthquakes large enough to be felt by a lot of people are relatively uncommon on the East Coast. Since 1950 there have only been about 20 quakes with a magnitude above 4.5, according to the United… ...

The earthquake that just shook the East Coast was caused by one of dozens of ancient fault lines that have lain dormant for hundreds of millions of years, top scientists announced on Friday ...