In New Jersey, fault lines do not generally break the Earth's surface, but are based several miles below. Earthquakes east of the Rockies are generally less intense than to the west, but because ...

The discovery of a new fault line may explain the unusually strong and displaced shaking from April’s magnitude 4.8 ...

The magnitude-4.8 earthquake was the strongest in New Jersey in over 200 years ... which could help identify the main fault line. “We’re trying to get people together.

New Jersey was once home to a fiery ... s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory identified the fault line on April 5th – the day a magnitude 4.8 earthquake rocked New York City.

This discovery could really shake up the Big Apple. New York City was rattled harder than some surrounding areas during last April’s northeast earthquake because of a dangerous, newly discovered ...

While earthquakes are rare in the New York-New Jersey area, there are several small fault lines under Manhattan and a major fault in New Jersey, called the Ramapo Fault. Mark Prussin is a digital ...

It’s too early to tell why this earthquake was as large as it was, but it might be because a fault line from 200 million years ago was reactivated. New Jersey likely won’t get another big ...

Hudson Valley gas and water lines ... area's faults, Gates said. Also different in the Tewksbury earthquake is the geology, Gates said. Unlike portions of the most northern parts of New Jersey ...

Experts say New York City in particular is not built to withstand a massive earthquake and that preparations ... was pinpointed near the Ramapo Fault in New Jersey, roughly 50 miles west of ...

That extreme event also opened fault lines in the ... they give rise to earthquakes. And that appears to have been what's happened this morning in New Jersey," Ben Fernando, a post-doctoral ...