Earthquake-SOCIAL STUDIES

A small earthquake hit Northern New Jersey on Monday February 2nd 2009. The earthquake struck a few miles away from Morristown. An earthquake with a magnitude of 2 hit Phillipsburg, New Jersey on July 28. A magnitude of 2.6 earthquake hit Sussex County, New Jersey on Feb. 17, 2006, and another earthquake, with a magnitude of 2.1 hit Morris County on Dec. 10, 2005

The earthquake hit Northern New Jersey at around 10:30 monday night. The earthquake had a magnitude of 3.0. The earthquake did not cause much damage and no one was reported injured. A earthquake which has a magnitude of 3.0 is rather large for New Jersey. Many people described that the earthquake felt like a bomb or a very loud thump. Someone working at a Exxon station in Rockaway, New Jersey said that the earthquake felt like it lasted two to three seconds.

The earthquake which was a magnitude of 3.0 hit at 10:34. Some had feared that a plane of truck had crashed. Dover, Wharton, Denville, Randolph, Mine Hill and the Rockaways in Morris County were hit with the earthquake the worst. The earthquake was about two miles underground. "For New Jersey or the Northeast, a 3.0 is fairly big." This earthquake is big for New Jersey but in California this would be nothing to them."But in California, it would be nothing, just a small event," The average earthquake is five to six miles under ground. Since Monday's earthquake was only two miles underground it resulted in more shaking and had more people feel it. If it was deeper than it might not have been noticed. Earthquakes are most common in highlands region in the state's northwest corner.


I got my information from:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/nyregion/new-jersey/03njquake.html?ref=us
http://sfist.com/2009/02/03/30_earthquake_sends_nj_citizens_int.php
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/it_sounded_like_an_explosion.html