A 2.6-magnitude aftershock was detected in New Jersey weeks after the bigger earthquake.
Gladstone, New Jersey (WABC) The United States Geological Survey detected a 2.6-magnitude aftershock near Gladstone, New Jersey, on Wednesday morning.
According to the United States Geological Survey, the aftershock occurred about 7:01 a.m.
The most recent aftershock before this one happened on Saturday near Gladstone, with a magnitude of 2.8.
Similarly, in the morning of April 10, Gladstone had a 2.6-magnitude earthquake.
“As soon as I feel there’s going to be an aftershock, adrenaline rushes through me,” Gladstone resident Barbara Howard explained.
Wednesday’s aftershock comes only weeks after a 4.8-magnitude earthquake shocked millions of people in the New York City region in early April.
The epicenter occurred in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, approximately 45 miles west of New York City.
Since then, numerous other quakes have been felt in the surrounding area, and experts believe tiny aftershocks will occur for days or even weeks following the main event.
James Bourke is a fellow in Rutgers University’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. The wounds on his wrists and arms represent the number of seismic-detecting devices he has installed.
“Potentially, for a location like this, where we have 35 so close, we might be able to do three-dimensional imaging—maybe not to the depth of the fault, but certainly things that may have gotten shaken around above it, directly beneath our feet,” Bourke went on to say.
Bourke has several of them installed in the ground at Fairview Farm near Gladstone. It is part of the Raritan Headwaters Association. The reason for this is that the Piedmont region has high arsenic levels, which earthquakes may destabilize, according to Mara Tippett, Executive Director of Raritan Headwater.
The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was the most powerful in the Tri-State region since 1973.
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