141 Quakes Rattle Eastern US

Remember what we have been blogging about for 15 years…the New Madrid fault.  When it broke 200 years ago it produced the largest quakes in US history.  Do all these strange quakes happening out East have anything to do with USA pressuring Israel?  Stay tuned.  “There will be earthquakes in various places.”

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 While the western United States is better known for its active seismicity, the eastern United States has been quite rattled in recent weeks; according to USGS, there have been 141 earthquakes in the eastern United States in the last 30 days.

Most of the earthquakes in the last 30 days have struck in New Jersey where a sequence began there on the morning of April 5 when a magnitude 4.8 event struck. Beyond the magnitude 4.8 earthquake, there were moderate aftershocks too. According to USGS,  3.7 magnitude event struck near Bedminster just before 6 pm on April 5, with 10 other earthquakes measuring as a 2.0 or greater magnitude event.  According to the Northeast States Emergency Consortium, on average there are about 2-3 earthquakes in New Jersey in a year, but according to USGS, New Jersey has now experienced 50x that threshold in just the last 3 weeks.

The next most popular area for earthquakes over the last month have been in the southern Appalachians, in the hills north of Atlanta, Georgia to the mountainous terrain of central and eastern Tennessee between Chattanooga and Asheville.

https://weatherboy.com/141-earthquakes-rattle-eastern-united-states-over-last-30-days/