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NORTHEAST SHAKES AS EARTHQUAKES HIT NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, AND NEW HAMPSHIRE

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - May 25, 2024

The epicenter of each earthquake in the last 7 days is depicted by a red dot
inside colored concentric colored rings. Image: USGS








It’s been a busy last 7 days in the northeast, seismically speaking, with more
than 1,000 people reporting to USGS that they’ve felt shaking from one of three
earthquakes to strike the region. While noticeable, they were all too weak to
create any damage or injuries.

According to USGS, earthquakes with a magnitude of 2.0 or less are rarely felt
or heard by people, but once they exceed 2.0, as this event did, more and more
people can feel them. While damage is possible with magnitude 3.0 events or
greater, significant damage and casualties usually don’t occur until the
magnitude of a seismic event rises to a 5.5 or greater rated event.

The first and weakest of the last 7 days was a magnitude 1.6 which struck just
west-southwest of Chesterfield in southwestern New Hampshire on the morning of
May 18. The second and second strongest of the bunch struck on May 21 near
Elizabethtown in Upstate New York; that quake was measured to be a magnitude 2.1
event. The most recent earthquake of the three was also the strongest; a
magnitude 2.9 quake struck near Gladstone, New Jersey, generating more than 900
reports alone to the USGS of shaking my people there.

The New Jersey earthquake was an aftershock to a strong jolt that struck the
region in early April. The New Jersey earthquake sequence  began with a 4.8
magnitude event on Friday, April 5 and has been followed by more than 100
aftershocks, including some that were quite moderate. According to USGS,  3.7
magnitude event struck near Bedminster just before 6 pm on April 5, with 10
other earthquakes measuring as a 2.0 or greater magnitude event.





The earthquakes in New York and New Hampshire were minor and do happen from time
to time in the region.

According to the Northeast States Emergency Consortium (NESEC), New York is a
state with a very long  history of earthquake activity that has touched all
parts of the state.  Since the first earthquake that was recorded in  December
19, 1737, New York has had over 550 earthquakes centered within its state
boundaries through 2016. It also has experienced strong ground shaking from
earthquakes centered in nearby U.S. states and Canadian provinces.  Most of the
quakes in New York have taken place in the greater New York City area, in the
Adirondack Mountains region, and in the western part of the state.

New York is no stranger to earthquakes; this map shows the epicenter of every
earthquake from 1975 to 2017. Image: NESEC

 

While many of the earthquakes to hit New York are weak like the May 21 event,
some have been damaging. Of the 551 earthquakes recorded between 1737 and 2016,
5 were considered “damaging”: 1737, 1929, 1944, 1983, and 2002.





While most of New York’s earthquakes have been in the Upstate, New York City has
also seen damaging earthquakes over the years. At about 10:30 pm on December 18,
1737, an earthquake with an unknown epicenter hit New York with an estimated
magnitude of 5.2. That quake damaged some chimneys in the city. On August 10,
1884, another 5.2 earthquake struck; this quake cracked chimneys and plaster,
broke windows, and objects were thrown from shelves throughout not only New York
City, but  surrounding towns in New York and New Jersey too.  The shaking from
the 1884 earthquake was felt as far west as Toledo, Ohio and as far east as
Penobscot Bay, Maine.  It was also reported felt by some in Baltimore, Maryland.


While the U.S. West Coast is best known for their earthquakes, there is
considerable earthquake risk elsewhere in the country. Image: USGS

 




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