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A magnitude 4.0 eastern U.S. earthquake typically can be felt at many places as far as 100 km (60 mi) from where it occurred, and it infrequently causes damage near its source."
An unusual East Coast earthquake shook millions of people from New York and Philadelphia skyscrapers to rural New England on Friday, causing no widespread damage but startling an area unaccustomed ...
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The land on the north-western side dropped by up to 2.1 metres (6.9 ft), [9] and that area is now more prone to flooding. [4] The most spectacular feature of the scarp was a deep prominent fissure up to 3 metres wide and 3–4 metres deep, mostly with near-vertical walls, that opened up along the fault.
Moderately damaging earthquakes strike between New York and Wilmington, Delaware, about twice a century, the USGS said, and smaller earthquakes are felt in the region roughly every two to three years.
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]
CTNow is a free weekly newspaper in central and southwestern Connecticut, United States, published by the Hartford Courant.. The previous iteration of CTNow was New Mass. Media, a privately owned weekly newspaper company until 1999, when its owners, including founding publisher Geoffrey Robinson, sold the company to The Hartford Courant for an undisclosed sum.
An agricultural community in Imperial County experienced a 4.8 earthquake and more than 180 smaller aftershocks.