New Earthquake Rattles Upstate New York Region

A minor earthquake measuring 2.1 struck parts of upstate New York on Tuesday morning, centered around seven miles from the town of Elizabethtown in Essex County. This tremor is unrelated to the 4.8 earthquake that struck northern New Jersey in April, and occurred nowhere near the Rampao Fault Line. The Adirondack region in upstate New York regularly experiences seismic activity, although not as active as areas near the Pacific coast. The area’s geological history includes continental collisions and uplifting of unknown origin, with the mountains still growing at a rate of 2 to 3 millimeters per year. New York state has experienced a total of 551 earthquakes from 1737-2016, with 44 of them being magnitude 3.0 or higher.