NEW YORK — The earthquake felt Friday in New York City wasn’t the first time New Yorkers felt the flooring shaking in 2024. A way smaller, 1.7 magnitude earthquake was additionally felt on January 2.
The U.S. Geological Survey stated the January earthquake was reported in Astoria, Queens after 911 calls flooded dispatchers with reviews of a “boom” and structures rocking.
Seismologists stated low-intensity micro-earthquakes like that occur continuously however are hardly felt.
Friday’s earthquake was felt throughout the complete northeast — even in Syracuse in Upstate New York. Reports additionally got here in from Philadelphia, Boston, and as a long way south as Baltimore.
The USGS stated it was measured at 4.8 magnitude and focused close to Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, which is ready 40 miles west of New York City. Shaking was felt from Washington D.C. to Maine, in line with the company.
The 2024 earthquakes do not examine with the 5.8 magnitude quake that rattled New York City and the East Coast on Aug. 23, 2011. It was focused in Virginia and felt from Washington, D.C. to Boston.
That was the biggest earthquake felt in New York City in greater than 100 years.
The last 5.0 earthquake focused in New York City came about in 1884. The town additionally felt a 2.6-magnitude earthquake in 2001.
Earthquakes are uncommon in the New York City space, however there are a number of small fault traces beneath Manhattan and a big fault in New Jersey, referred to as the Ramapo Fault.