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Ramapo Fault Significance, Map: New Jersey And NYC Earthquakes Shed Light On Northeastern Fault Systems
Both incidents resulted from gravitational slip on these age-old structures, the foremost being the Ramapo Fault. The Ramapo Fault belongs to a network of faults oriented northeastward and dipping ...
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Earthquake that rocked NYC was caused by little-known 185-mile fault line in New Jersey, experts say
The ‘epicenter’ sits on the Ramapo Fault, the longest system of cracks in the Northeast, which formed 400 million years ago - much older than California's 28-million-year-old San Andreas.