earthquake
A 2.2 magnitude earthquake occurred Wednesday night in Lake Ontario, about 12 miles north of Pulteneyville. According to the USGS, the quake struck at 7:19 p.m. at a depth of 7.9 km, with an epicenter near 43.396°N, 77.175°W. Because of its small magnitude and offshore location, few—if any—people likely felt it. The city of Rochester […]
A 3.0 magnitude earthquake struck Hasbrouck Heights, NJ, on Saturday evening, shaking parts of northern New Jersey, New York City, and even southern Connecticut. While no damage or injuries were reported, over 10,000 people logged reports with the US Geological Survey. Earthquakes are rare but not unheard of in the region. Experts note East Coast […]
Northern California experienced its most powerful earthquake since 2019 on Thursday, as a 7.0 magnitude quake struck near Ferndale in Humboldt County. The temblor rattled a region known as “earthquake country,” where three tectonic plates converge, prompting a tsunami warning that spanned 500 miles of the U.S. West Coast. The alert, later lifted after no […]
Sunday afternoon on social media I saw a few people saying they felt their homes shake and weren’t sure if it was an earthquake. Several news outlets confirmed that around 2:10pm Sunday afternoon upstate New York From Syracuse to Ontario Canada felt the small earthquake 3.6 on the scale. Let’s keep our fingers crossed and […]
Yesterday morning, Buffalo was awakened with a bit of a shake. According to the United States Geological Survey, the quake originated near West Seneca, a town just south of Buffalo, around 6:15 am. According to the Associated Press, a seismologist said it was the region’s strongest quake in at least 40 years. The largest earthquake […]
The City of Buffalo and surrounding areas was hit with a 3.8 earthquake Monday morning around 6:15 am waking up Erie County. No injuries were reported. https://buffalonews.com/news/local/3-8-magnitude-earthquake-hits-buffalo-wakes-region-with-boom-shortly-after-6-a-m/article_217f4efe-a613-11ed-afce-9731068a0453.html
After a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, Naomi Osaka is stepping up. The tennis star pledged to donate any prize money she earns from this week’s Western & Southern Open tennis tournament to support relief efforts in Haiti. Osaka’s father, Leonard Francois, is from Haiti and she shared on Twitter. Really hurts to see all the devastation […]
Two rare earthquakes hit Baltimore, Maryland in just three days. The first earthquake was small registering 2.6-magnitude on the Richter scale Friday afternoon near Woodlawn. The residence of Woodlawn spoke on the matter. Wanda Binns stated: ”It scared me to death. Certainly, you would expect to see it on the West Coast. Who would think […]
Members of the Rochester community recently gathered together to help out Puerto Rico, whose residents are still feeling the effects and seeing damage from a big earthquake and several aftershocks that rattled the island in December. So much damage was done in the region of Ponce that people have set up camp outside of the […]
Did you happen to feel a little “rumble” while you were sleeping last night? Well, if you’re near the Sodus Point area then you actually might have! Around 2:40 a.m. Wednesday morning, an earthquake was detected under Lake Ontario in Northeast Rochester. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the epicenter of the quake registered at […]
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