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Cameron's Line winds southward out of New England through western Connecticut.It has been identified in western Connecticut near Ridgefield before it heads into Westchester County, New York, then the Bronx, along the East River in Manhattan, through New York Bay, Staten Island, and into New Jersey.
The area is subject to earthquakes, with an intensity VI quake occurring in 1568, [14] and numerous quakes being recorded from 1638 onwards. [15] [16] The largest earthquake recorded for Connecticut was an intensity VII quake on May 16, 1791, near Moodus. [17] [18]
Connecticut's Eastern border fault was formed, a fault which begins in New Haven and stretches 130 miles up to Keene, New Hampshire. As a result, the land west of this fault was downset, resulting in a rift valley and causing the land to tilt an average of 15 to 25 degrees.
The small, mainland nabe of East Hampton, Connecticut is the center of a geological mystery. The town's landscape makes it prone to an anomaly of boisterous seismic activity that's been recorded ...
Earthquakes are less common on the eastern than western edges of the U.S. because the East Coast does not lie on a boundary of tectonic plates. But 13 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or stronger have ...
An agricultural community in Imperial County experienced a 4.8 earthquake and more than 180 smaller aftershocks. A midnight 4.8 earthquake followed by a cluster of aftershocks rocks the El Centro area
Thus, earthquakes represent at least a moderate hazard to East Coast cities. Earthquakes in the greater New York City area affect most of New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the United States, as well as New York City. It is difficult to discern the extent to which the Ramapo fault itself (or any other specific mapped fault in the ...
The term "Connecticut" trended at No. 5 and "USGS" at No. 6. In the minutes during and after the quake, X transformed into “earthquake Twitter” as many began to call it on Friday morning ...