A newly found fault line with a rare slanted angle shows why an earthquake rattled New York City in April harder than its epicenter in New Jersey — and may be bigger seismic activity threat than ...

New York City was rattled harder than some surrounding areas during last April’s northeast earthquake because of a dangerous, newly discovered fault line that sits at a rare angle — and it ...

Seismic activity is ongoing along the New Madrid fault line. In the 1990s, a few magnitude 4 earthquakes were reported, and ...

While the 125th Street Fault is the city’s largest fault line, Morningside Heights isn’t as unfavorably placed as some other New York City neighborhoods. Inwood, at the northern tip of Manhattan, is ...

The fault that ruptured beneath New Jersey on Friday morning was likely an ancient, sleeping seam in the Earth, awakened by geologic forces in a region where earthquakes are rare and seismic risks ...

Earthquakes are most common along fault lines, which are fractures that allow the plates to move. ... Moderately damaging earthquakes strike between New York and Wilmington, ...

The magnitude-4.8 earthquake recorded in Whitehouse Station, N.J., that shook buildings across the New York City region on Friday morning, though, was an unsettling reminder of the fault lines ...

The 2024 earthquakes don't compare with the 5.8 magnitude quake that rattled New York City and the East Coast on Aug. 23, 2011.It was centered in Virginia and felt from Washington, D.C. to Boston ...

A group of fault lines sit underground near Van Horn, Texas, dating up to 1.6 million years old, according to a map published by the USGS.

But they note there are numerous fault lines running through our region. That includes through New York City. A 1737 earthquake in the area and another one in 1884 both measured more than a 5 in ...

NEW YORK — An earthquake shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area Friday morning, with residents across the Northeast reporting rumbling in a region unaccustomed to it. The U ...