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5 kwi 2024 · Although the first known recorded earthquake to hit New Jersey was on November 30, 1783, according to The Northeast States Emergency Consortium, there have been several significant...
10 gru 2020 · The recorded history of earthquakes in New Jersey starts off with a bang (sorry) on Nov. 29, 1783, when a quake with an estimated magnitude of 5.3 was felt from New Hampshire to Pennsylvania. It remains the strongest earthquake to shake the state — more precisely, the Province of New Jersey — although it failed to rouse George Washington ...
24 maj 2024 · A 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit near New Jersey on the morning of April 5, 2024 at 10:23 local time (America/New_York). The center of this earthquake was located 50km west of Newark at a depth of 3km under land. This is the strongest earthquake that occurred near New Jersey since the year 1900.
New Jersey, United States has had: (M1.5 or greater) 0 earthquakes in the past 24 hours. 1 earthquake in the past 7 days. 6 earthquakes in the past 30 days. 78 earthquakes in the past 365 days.
5 kwi 2024 · The magnitude 4.8 earthquake near Tewksbury was the most significant to impact North Jersey since 1884, when an Aug. 10 earthquake somewhere near Jamaica Bay toppled chimneys and moved houses...
23 sie 2016 · Five years ago today, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the eastern United States rocked a rural area of Virginia, sending shock waves through the ground across much of the East...
On November 29, 1783, at 10:50 p.m. , a M fa 5.3 earthquake occurred in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was the state's first recorded seismic event. It is estimated that the quake was the largest and strongest that the state has ever recorded. The earthquake caused intensity VII damage on the Mercalli intensity scale.
