But while Americans are aware of the San Andreas fault and the seismic ... the formation of the Appalachian Mountains. It is responsible for several of the fault lines that run through New York ...

Professor Weiss said the quake rippled along an old, inactive fault line within the Appalachian Mountain Range. The shallow nature of this quake and the kind of rock located in northern Jersey is ...

The Appalachian Mountains are not on an active tectonic plate boundary – where earthquakes are common – but the region has sporadic minor quakes linked to old fault lines, geologists say.

Most of New England's and Long Island's bedrock was assembled as continents collided to form a supercontinent 500-300 million years ago, raising the northern Appalachian Mountains. Fault lines ...

The Ramapo fault line runs through New Jersey, stemming from the Appalachian Mountains. There are also five smaller fault lines that run under the island of Manhattan. Even with these fault lines ...

More than a dozen earthquakes have rattled the Southern Appalachian region in the past ... temblor reported near the Georgia-Tennessee line over the weekend. It’s the latest in a series of ...

Earthquakes occur sporadically in the Appalachian Mountains, where old fault lines exist, experts say. “In areas with lots of old faults, like the Appalachians, we tend to get earthquakes along ...