A small earthquake with a magnitude of 2.7 hit northern New Jersey on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, according to the United States Geological Survey.
A small earthquake with a magnitude of 2.7 hit northern New Jersey on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, according to the United States Geological Survey.The USGS reports the epicenter of an earthquake with a magnitude of 2.
7 was registered two kilometers southwest of Hillsdale in Bergen County on Tuesday, Aug. 5. suburb of Hasbrouck Heights on Saturday, Aug. 2, less than eight miles west of Central Park in New York City, at a depth of about 6.2 miles. It was felt fairly widely in northern parts of the state, southern New York and even in southern Connecticut.“The northeast part of the United States does not see large earthquakes very often,” said Jessica Turner, a geophysicist with the National Earthquake Information Center, which is a part of the USGS.Since 1950, only 43 other quakes of this magnitude and larger have occurred within 155 miles of Saturday’s event, according to the USGS. that struck in Tewksbury, New Jersey, a little farther west of the city, in April 2024 was felt as far away as Boston and Baltimore. Some flights were diverted or delayed after that quake, and Amtrak slowed trains throughout the busy Northeast corridor. The region sees a more damaging one only a couple times a century, if that. New York was damaged in 1737 and 1884 by earthquakes, according to USGS data.The difference between East Coast and West Coast quakes lies in the “mechanism,” said seismologist Lucy Jones. California is at the edge of the San Andreas fault system, which has two tectonic plates: the Pacific Ocean plate and the North American plate. Two plates move and push to build up stress, meaning earthquakes happen relatively frequently. New York falls in the middle of a plate, far from the nearest boundaries in the center of the Atlantic Ocean and in the Caribbean Sea — resulting in residual stresses and making it difficult to predict where earthquakes will occur. The area is also home to the well-known Ramapo Fault line. Geologists have not seen evidence that would suggest it has had a large earthquake in some time, but there have been smaller ones. Saturday’s quake cannot necessarily be associated with this fault, experts say.“The rocks on the East Coast are particularly cold and hard and therefore, do a better job of transmitting the energy,” said Jones. In California, the various faults are more akin to a broken bell, which doesn’t transmit energy as well.
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