The recent, small earthquakes that rattled the New York metro area serve as a reminder that seismic activity does occur in ...

Roughly 60% of the city’s buildings were constructed before 1940, well before the city updated its building codes in 1995 to ...

According to the NESEC, the largest earthquake centered in New York state happened on September 5, 1944. The magnitude 5.9 ...

Residents of the lower Hudson Valley may have reported feeling their second earthquake in four days Tuesday afternoon.

The recent temblors were classified as “weak,” and may have been connected to a bigger earthquake last year in the area.

HILLSDALE, N.J. (AP) — A second small earthquake rattled the New York metropolitan area on Tuesday, days after the first. The ...

Geologist and Rutgers University professor Alexander Gates explaines why New Jersey may be having so many earthquakes.

A small earthquake centered in northern New Jersey on Tuesday rattled the New York City metropolitan area, officials said.

It wouldn’t take an unusually strong earthquake to cause severe damage across the Big Apple, analysis shows, but geology ...

The earthquake struck at 12:11 p.m. Tuesday with an epicenter near Hillsdale, N.J., roughly 20 miles from Manhattan. At 7.7 miles deep, the quake is considered shallow, according to the USGS.

Tuesday’s magnitude 2.7 earthquake was recorded just south of Hillsdale, N.J. — about 25 miles northwest of Midtown Manhattan ...