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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 ...
An earthquake struck the East Coast of the United States on Friday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, causing buildings to shake and rattling nerves from Maryland to Maine.
The Earthquake House, on the outskirts of the village of Comrie, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, was the first dedicated earthquake observatory in the world. Comrie lies on the Highland Boundary Fault and suffers more tremors and quakes than anywhere else in the United Kingdom .
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]
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 Pratt House is a historic house museum at 19 West Avenue in Essex, Connecticut. With a construction history of one ell possibly dating to the mid-17th century, it is one of Connecticut's oldest surviving buildings, owned for 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 centuries by a single family. Now owned by the local historical society, its displays exhibit Pratt ...
An earthquake of 4.8 magnitude occurred about 3 miles northeast of of Lebanon, Hunterdon County, New Jersey Friday morning, with residents in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and New York ...