Earthquakes are most common along fault lines, which are fractures that allow ... Moderately damaging earthquakes strike between New York and Wilmington, Delaware, about twice a century, the ...

MOUNTAINVILLE, N.J. — A newly discovered fault line beneath New Jersey has sparked fresh concerns following an April earthquake that reverberated across the Northeast, scientists confirmed Monday. It ...

Most earthquakes that happen within the state are either far north towards Quebec, in western New York around Lake Ontario, or closer to the New York City area. The most well-known fault line near our ...

Scientists are focusing on understanding the earthquake history of these fault lines ... with no other project that simultaneously studies 132 fault lines at this scale. The results will be used in ...

A tsunami warning has been issued for a swatch of the West Coast after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – If you’ve spent your time searching if there was an earthquake in your area, an interactive map from the U.S. Geological Survey will show you exactly where it occurred.

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock ... along the portion of a fault that slipped at the ...

Seismologists register the intensity of an earthquake in units known as moment magnitude, which measure how much energy was released when the rocks along a fault moved during the quake.