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11-24-2012, 12:31 PM
Most geologists believe that New York is the city most at risk for a big earthquake. Numero Uno with a bullet. They usually pay lip service to strengthening the buildings there so it comes to mind, is New York City ready for the big one?
This story was written a few months before the Virginia earthquake hit last year...
Lynn Skyes, lead author of a recent study by seismologists at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory adds that a magnitude-6 quake hits the area about every 670 years and magnitude-7 every 3,400 years.
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A 5.2-magnitude quake shook New York City (http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/big-ny-eq.html) in 1737 and another of the same severity hit in 1884. Tremors were felt from Maine to Virginia.
There are several fault lines in the metro area, including one along Manhattan's 125th St. - which may have generated two small tremors in 1981 and may have been the source of the major 1737 earthquake, says Armbruster. There's another fault line on Dyckman St. and one in Dobbs Ferry in nearby Westchester County...
"Will there be one in my lifetime or your lifetime? I don't know. But this is the longest period we've gone without one."
Unlike California quakes, Central and Eastern quakes are felt for hundreds of miles from the epicenter...
New York City Earthquake? (http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-03-17/local/29175617_1_moderate-earthquake-magnitude-seismologist)
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Map comparing a California earthquake and one in New Madrid, MO.
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This story was written a few months before the Virginia earthquake hit last year...
Lynn Skyes, lead author of a recent study by seismologists at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory adds that a magnitude-6 quake hits the area about every 670 years and magnitude-7 every 3,400 years.
http://articles.nydailynews.com/images/pixel.gif
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A 5.2-magnitude quake shook New York City (http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/big-ny-eq.html) in 1737 and another of the same severity hit in 1884. Tremors were felt from Maine to Virginia.
There are several fault lines in the metro area, including one along Manhattan's 125th St. - which may have generated two small tremors in 1981 and may have been the source of the major 1737 earthquake, says Armbruster. There's another fault line on Dyckman St. and one in Dobbs Ferry in nearby Westchester County...
"Will there be one in my lifetime or your lifetime? I don't know. But this is the longest period we've gone without one."
Unlike California quakes, Central and Eastern quakes are felt for hundreds of miles from the epicenter...
New York City Earthquake? (http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-03-17/local/29175617_1_moderate-earthquake-magnitude-seismologist)
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/files/a-mcgev-front0824_1.jpg
Map comparing a California earthquake and one in New Madrid, MO.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rep/New-Madrid-Fault-Earthquake-Zone.jpg