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- New York Metropolis skilled an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 4.8 on Friday.
- Eighteen quakes with 2.4-or-greater magnitude have occurred in or round NYC since 1737, data present.
- The final main earthquake felt in NYC was a 5.9-magnitude quake that hit Virginia in 2011.
On Friday, residents throughout New York Metropolis's 5 boroughs and the tri-state space skilled a uncommon earthquake.
With an estimated magnitude of 4.8, the quake's epicenter was positioned in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, based on the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
Different cities alongside the East Coast, together with Philadelphia and Boston, additionally reported feeling the bottom shake.
Whereas uncommon, earthquakes have been documented in New York Metropolis for hundreds of years
New York Metropolis's historical past of seismic exercise dates again to the 1700s.
Earlier than Friday's quake, information from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia College confirmed that 18 earthquakes with a magnitude of two.4 or larger have occurred in or round New York Metropolis since 1737.
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In 1884, the tremors from a 5.2-magnitude quake in New York Metropolis have been felt from Virginia to Maine, although no main structural injury was reported, based on information studies on the time.
Extra lately, a 2.4-magnitude quake shook Queens and Manhattan's Higher East Aspect in January 2001, whereas components of Queens and the Higher West Aspect felt a 2.6 earthquake in October 2001.
The most important earthquakes in NYC historical past
The most important-ever earthquakes to rattle New York Metropolis each had a magnitude of 5.8.
The primary — primarily based in Massena, New York, a city close to the Canadian border — struck the town in 1944.
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One other 5.8 earthquake in 2011 that hit Louisa County, Virginia — close to the capital Richmond — was additionally felt in New York Metropolis.
It was possible essentially the most widely-felt earthquake in US historical past because of the inhabitants density of the East Coast, based on the USGS.
