“I think New York just had an earthquake…. Cause my bed was trembling and woke me up.”
Earthquakes of a magnitude of 3 and below will not usually result in much damage but are strong enough to be felt by those in the affected area, according to the USGS.
Significant destruction usually only occurs when the earthquake’s magnitudes are around 5.5 or higher. In August 2011, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake rattled the East Coast and some Canadian provenances, bringing serious attention to the hazards that may arise in the unsuspecting areas of North East America.
“Damaging earthquakes do not strike the eastern U.S. often, but the potential consequences of not understanding and planning for such events with their widely distributed shaking could be severe,” a topThe largest recorded earthquake to strike New York was a 5.9 on the New York-Canada border on Sept. 5, 1944, which caused minor damage to surrounding towns, the
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