The discovery of a new fault line may explain the unusually strong and displaced shaking from April’s magnitude 4.8 earthquake that struck the heart of New Jersey, a new research study shows.

The fault runs for about 185 miles from New York, through New Jersey — beneath Passaic, Morris, Somerset and Hunterdon counties — and on into Pennsylvania in a northeast-southwest orientation ...

The fault that ruptured beneath New Jersey on Friday morning was likely an ancient, sleeping seam in the Earth, awakened by geologic forces in a region where earthquakes are rare and seismic risks ...

One year ago, on April 5, 2024, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck near Tewksbury, rattling homes and nerves across New Jersey and beyond.The strongest quake to hit the state in more than a century ...

New Jersey experienced a 4.8 magnitude earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Here is the science behind the cause and the Ramapo Fault.

Experts from Rutgers and other universities are trying to track down the exact fault line that triggered the initial earthquake on April 5.

New Jersey experienced a 4.8 magnitude earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Here is the science behind the cause and the Ramapo Fault.

New Jersey was once home to a fiery volcano roughly the size of Mount St. Helens – that sits in the same county as a newly mapped fault line. Rutan Hill, in Wantage, NJ, appears to be and is ...

Magnitude 4.8 earthquake hits NJ, rattles entire tri-state; 4.0 aftershock felt hours later Large earthquakes occur at fault zones, or areas of fracture in the Earth's crust, where the rock will ...

New Jersey experienced a 4.8 magnitude earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Here is the science behind the cause and the Ramapo Fault.