The East Coast earthquake came from a fault that's been asleep for hundreds of millions of years but suddenly reactivated
The earthquake that just shook the East Coast was caused by one of dozens of ancient fault lines that have lain dormant for ...
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Geologists Finally Explain New Jersey’s Strange Earthquake That Rocked the Northeast in April
A new study suggests the seismic energy traveled outward from a previously unmapped fault, emanating from the hypocenter in ...
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NJ fault line discovery: Explaining unusual NYC area shaking from April's earthquake
The discovery of a new fault line may explain the unusually strong and displaced shaking from April’s magnitude 4.8 ...
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New York and beyond rattled by rare East Coast earthquake
New York and cities on the US East Coast are assessing the impact of a rare earthquake that swayed ... Friday's quake may have happened on an old fault line that had become "reactivated".
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Earthquake? New Jersey shrugs: A surprising fault line — and reaction
Analysis by the Columbia Climate School’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory found the quake took place on a previously ...