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2. 2022 Ferndale earthquake [ 35] April 5, 2024. New Jersey. 4.8 M w. 0. 2024 New Jersey earthquake [ 36] Two-percent probability of exceedance in 50 years map of peak ground acceleration from the United States Geological Survey, released July 17, 2014.
The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid Fault Line, is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the Southern and Midwestern United States, stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri . The New Madrid fault system was responsible for the ...
On January 31, 1986, at 11:46 EST (03:46 UTC), an earthquake of M b 5.0 struck 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of Cleveland, Ohio, and about 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant. [ 1] The earthquake was felt over a broad area due to its location. Parts of the US such as the District of Columbia, and parts of Ontario, Canada.
A small earthquake could be felt early Saturday morning near Alliance. According to the United States Geological Survey, a magnitude 3.0 earthquake was detected at 4:42 a.m. on Saturday.
The magnitude 5.2 earthquake near Bakersfield was felt over a wide area of Southern California. ... The earthquake occurred about 12 miles northwest of the epicenter of the magnitude 7.5 Kern ...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near the southeast coast of Taiwan on April 11 at a depth of 10 km. A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit Mexico, near Michoacán, on April 11, at a depth of 20 km. [46] A magnitude 6.2 struck Baja California, Mexico on April 12 followed by a strong aftershock of 6.9. [47]
1906 San Francisco earthquake. / 37.75; -122.55. At 05:12 Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI ( Extreme ). High-intensity shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the ...
Other significant earthquakes in Ohio include: [121] one of magnitude 4.8 near Lima on September 19, 1884; [122] one of magnitude 4.2 near Portsmouth on May 17, 1901; [123] and one of 5.0 in LeRoy Township in Lake County on January 31, 1986, which continued to trigger 13 aftershocks of magnitude 0.5 to 2.4 for two months.