New Jersey experienced a 4.8 magnitude earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Here is the science behind the cause and the Ramapo Fault.

The 4.8 magnitude earthquake that shook the Northeast U.S. on April 5 also shook experts' previously held beliefs about the region. The quake, one of the strongest ever recorded in New Jersey ...

The 4.8 magnitude earthquake that shook the Northeast U.S. on April 5 also shook experts' previously held beliefs about the region. The quake, one of the strongest ever recorded in New Jersey ...

The fault that ruptured beneath New Jersey on Friday morning was likely an ancient, sleeping seam in the Earth, awakened by geologic forces in a region where earthquakes are rare and seismic risks ...

New Jersey experienced a 4.8 magnitude earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Here is the science behind the cause and the Ramapo Fault.

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake was felt throughout New Jersey on April 5, 2024. The most recent earthquake in New Jersey was on March 21 and measured 1.8 magnitude. One year ago, on April 5, 2024, a ...

The fault runs for about 185 miles from New York, through New Jersey — beneath Passaic, Morris, Somerset and Hunterdon counties — and on into Pennsylvania in a northeast-southwest orientation.

It is a 185-mile long fault that stretches from New York to Pennsylvania and crosses New Jersey, he said. "Most of the earthquakes that are felt on it (the Ramapo fault) are fairly modest in the ...

New Jersey has had several small earthquakes since the end of 2020, but they were all of a magnitude of less than 2.5, which barely registers, according to Michigan Tech University.

Stones fell off the facade of Taylor's Mill in Readington Township, NJ following the magnitude 4.8 earthquake on April 5, 2024. It was the strongest earthquake centered in New Jersey in 86 years ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Friday's 4.8 magnitude earthquake in northern New Jersey is the strongest centered in the Garden State in centuries. Not since what is believed to have been a 5.3 magnitude ...

New Jersey was once home to a fiery volcano roughly the size of Mount St. Helens – that sits in the same county as a newly mapped fault line. Rutan Hill, in Wantage, NJ, appears to be and is ...