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Another Quake Hits New Jersey: Is the East Coast on Edge?

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Tewkesbury NJ, a small 2.9 magnitude earthquake rattled New Jersey on Saturday morning, just three weeks after a more forceful 4.8 quake hit the Garden State and surrounding regions.

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Quake Strikes North East on the Heels of an April Nor’easter and Just Days After Taiwan Quake

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Ridgewood NJ, around 10:25 a.m. on Friday morning, an earthquake struck New Jersey, with its effects felt across much of the state as well as parts of Connecticut, Philadelphia, and New York. While the magnitude of the earthquake has not been officially reported, preliminary estimates suggest it may range between 4.0 and 5.0, with some estimates indicating 4.7 to 4.8.

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Questions and Worry in Eastern Connecticut as Numerous Small Quakes Strike Region

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Questions and Worry in Eastern Connecticut as Numerous Small Quakes Strike Region

By KRISTIN HUSSEY and MARC SANTORAJAN. 15, 2015

PLAINFIELD, Conn. — Connecticut has been feeling a bit of stress lately.

For people, relief can sometimes be found in a massage, a trip to the beach or a bottle of wine. For the earth itself, however, it is not so simple.

In the eastern part of the state, stresses buried deep underground for hundreds of millions of years have been causing a bit of a stir.

Over the last seven days, 11 small earthquakes have been measured in and around the town of Plainfield, on the border with Rhode Island, the most recent on Thursday morning.

Jessica Lyon said she was sleeping in her Plainfield home and sat up suddenly the other morning, thinking a snow plow had just come tearing past her house. “I never knew we have fault lines and stuff like that around here,” she said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/nyregion/in-eastern-connecticut-feeling-on-edge-amid-a-series-of-small-quakes.html