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What Causes Earthquakes in the Northeast like the Magnitude 4.8 One in New Jersey?

How Common Are Northeast Earthquakes? Earthquakes in the Northeast are usually too small to feel, but larger temblors like the…

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Rare magnitude 4.8 and 3.8 earthquakes rock Northeast, including greater New York area

Magnitude 4.8 and 3.8 earthquakes rocked the Northeast, including the Greater New York area, on Friday (April 5), according to…

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Oldest evidence of earthquakes found in strange jumble of 3.3 billion-year-old rocks from Africa

Scientists have found signs of some of the earliest known earthquakes in 3.3 billion-year-old rocks. The rocks provide early evidence…

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Earthquakes hastened sea rise in Pacific islands by sinking the ground

Tutuila, the largest island in the US territory of American Samoa Peto Laszlo/Alamy The Samoan Islands are sinking faster after…

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Japan quake toll rises to 62 as rescuers struggle to reach cut-off villages | Earthquakes News

Heavy rain is forecast into Thursday raising the risk of landslides and further complicating relief efforts. Japanese rescuers continue to…

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Iceland volcano erupts following weeks of earthquakes

A volcano in southwest Iceland erupted late on Monday after the region experienced a series of earthquakes for weeks.  Residents…

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More than 100 people killed in earthquake in northwest China | Earthquakes News

The shallow 6.2 magnitude quake struck during the night near the border of Gansu and Qinghai provinces, sending people rushing…

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Iceland volcano in Grindavik erupts after weeks of earthquakes

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Underwater volcano riding a sinking tectonic plate may have unleashed major earthquakes in Japan

The Minami Kasuga 2 submarine volcano, part of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc stretching across the Pacific from Japan to Guam, is…

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Iceland volcano: Moment house shakes after series of earthquakes

A couple filmed the moment a violent tremor shook a house in Grindavik, Iceland. Caitlin McLean, from Scotland, was visiting…

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