It's hard to predict the exact timing of earthquakes in the Ramapo Fault zone. “However, each earthquake is valuable to build a catalog and determine this time cycle to hopefully constrain time ...

A magnitude-4.8 earthquake shook the East Coast shortly after 10:20 a.m. on ... Scientists suspect that the earthquake likely originated in the area of the Ramapo fault zone in the Newark basin.

Rutgers University seismologists have installed more than 100 seismometers to understand subsurface faults that likely caused April's earthquake.

Ramapo officials are pushing a plan to institute a development-friendly special zone, called a Planned Unit Development, or PUD zoning, which critics say would stress the town's infrastructure.

One year ago, on April 5, 2024, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck near Tewksbury, rattling homes and nerves across New Jersey and beyond.The strongest quake to hit the state in more than a century ...

She noted the Ramapo is just one of several known faults — a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock — in the Hunterdon County area. Two others are the Tewksbury fault and the ...

A 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey on Saturday morning, ... The Ramapo Fault zone is a series of small fault lines that runs through New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

So what’s the science behind what happens to cause an earthquake? ... "The Ramapo fault which is the fault zone on which today's earthquake occurred, was active 200 million years ago.

The recent earthquake in New Jersey is likely linked to the Ramapo Fault zone, a prominent geological feature that stretches from Pennsylvania to New York. Another possible source is the younger ...