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The Ramapo Fault has been blamed for several past earthquakes, but the specific association of any significant earthquake with this fault has yet to be demonstrated. [6] A damaging earthquake affecting New York City in 1884 was incorrectly argued to be caused by the Ramapo fault, likely because it is the most prominent mapped fault in the ...
The Ramapo Fault System is the longest in the northeastern U.S., stretching from Pennsylvania to southeastern New York. Map of the Ramapo Fault System: Earthquake epicenter at Lebanon, NJ.
Scientists suspect that the earthquake likely originated in the area of the Ramapo fault zone in the Newark basin. The fault system contains a branching network of faults.
The Ramapo Fault, which marks the western boundary of the Newark rift basin, has been argued to be a major seismically active feature of this region, [22] but it is difficult to discern the extent to which the Ramapo fault (or any other specific mapped fault in the area) might be any more of a source of future earthquakes than any other parts ...
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 causative fault for the earthquake was likely in the area of the Ramapo Fault zone, [8] which extends from Pennsylvania to New York [9] and was formed by the break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea during the Late Triassic. [10] Another possible origin is the Flemington Fault, a younger fault in the same area. [11]
And its major fault system, the Ramapo Fault, was created quite differently. North America, Europe and Africa were once part of a single giant tectonic plate, called Pangea.
The earthquake is thought to have originated from within the New Jersey Highlands of the Reading Prong, [4] possibly on the 300 km long, 12 km wide Ramapo Fault zone, a structure formed during the Late Triassic during the break-up of Pangaea. [6] The mainshock was part of a sequence that occurred over a span of several hours. [4]