A small 2.9 magnitude earthquake rattled New Jersey on Saturday morning, simply three weeks after a extra forceful 4.8 quake hit the Backyard State and surrounding areas.Â
The pure phenomenon hit close to Tewksbury this morning at round 9:49 a.m., based on the U.S. Geological Survey. Tewksbury is situated in Hunterdon County, which is about 35 miles west of New York Metropolis.Â
It’s unclear if the seismic exercise was an aftershock from the April 5 earthquake. That occasion was centered close to Whitehouse Station, which is about 5 miles south of Tewksbury, and was felt from Washington D.C. to Maine, based on the USGS.
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A small 2.9 magnitude earthquake rattled New Jersey Saturday morning, simply three weeks after a extra forceful 4.8 quake hit the Backyard State and surrounding areas.Â
Ashley Papa, a Fox Information Digital editor residing in New Jersey, says she felt Saturday’s quake rock her residence.
“I used to be within the kitchen with my toddler and rapidly we began feeling the home shake fairly strongly and we heard that very same rumbling sound from the day of the [April 5] earthquake,” Papa mentioned.Â
Greater than 130 aftershocks have been recorded within the area for the reason that April 5 rattler, which was estimated to have been felt by greater than 42 million folks in 14 states.
“I’d should say it was the strongest aftershock since that day besides this time I knew what I used to be feeling, in contrast to that Friday after I had no thought what was occurring,” Papa mentioned.
Two staff of Bourbon Road Wine and Sprits maintain again cabinets stuffed with liquor in New Jersey throughout the April 5 earthquake. (Chris Beardly)
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“I feel we’re all simply in shock that that is nonetheless occurring. I figured we’d by no means really feel something like this once more for one more hundred years and right here we’re a few month later nonetheless feeling robust aftershocks, it simply makes us marvel what’s going on? And naturally, our canine is terrified and can doubtless by no means be the identical once more.”
Earthquakes are uncommon alongside the East Coast, with probably the most highly effective one within the final 100 years hitting in August 2011, clocking 5.8 on the Richter scale. It was centered in Virginia and felt from Washington, D.C. to Boston.
The current quakes observe a 1.7 magnitude earthquake in New York Metropolis on Jan. 2.Â
Folks stroll via decrease Manhattan moments after New York Metropolis and components of New Jersey skilled a 4.8 magnitude earthquake on April 05, 2024Â (Earthquake East Coast)
Professor John Ebel, a seismologist within the Division of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Boston Faculty, instructed Fox Information Digital not too long ago {that a} quake above 5.0 on the Richter scale usually strikes as soon as each 120 years.Â
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“The query is, can now we have one thing larger? And in my view, sure we are able to,” he mentioned. “We will not predict earthquakes, and we do not know when the following one goes to happen, however we do have a low, not insignificant chance of a dangerous earthquake in some unspecified time in the future.”
Ebel mentioned that the April 5 earthquake has left seismologists baffled because it didn’t happen on the Ramapo Fault zone, highlighting simply how exhausting it’s to foretell the phenomenon from occurring.Â
The Ramapo Fault zone is a collection of small fault traces that runs via New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Spanning greater than 185 miles, it was shaped about 200 million years in the past.
