New Jersey, not typically known for seismic activity, has recently experienced a noticeable uptick in earthquakes — including two tremors in Bergen County, one registering magnitude 3.0 and another at 2.7. RCEI affiliate Alexander Gates, working alongside a former student, discovered that perhaps lesser known fault lines are the cause of these earthquakes.
RCEI affiliate Gates stated in this article that “we find that the Ramapo Fault is pretty much dead,” and that “instead what we find is that there are mostly east-west trending faults that go all the way across from southern New Jersey all the way into southern New York. And those are active.”
The full article can be found here.
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