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The Ramapo Fault zone is a system of faults between the northern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont areas to the ... Green lines indicate the trace of the Ramapo fault.
These lines allow tectonic plates to move and earthquakes occur when two plates slide past each other. The Ramapo Fault System is the longest in the northeastern U.S., stretching from Pennsylvania ...
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 ...
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]
In New Jersey, fault lines do not generally break the Earth's surface, but are based several miles below. A map showing the physiographic provinces in New Jersey, and the location of the Ramapo Fault.
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 border fault is the Ramapo Fault on the western boundary of the basin; this is where the hanging wall of the graben slid down to its current position. Estimates to the depth of accumulated sediments on the western side of the basin, and therefore the depth of the hanging wall, are in the area of 11,000 feet.