A water main break in Paterson, New Jersey is prompting a boil water advisory for residents, the Passaic Valley Water Commission says.

The recent, small earthquakes that rattled the New York metro area serve as a reminder that seismic activity does occur in ...

Roughly 60% of the city’s buildings were constructed before 1940, well before the city updated its building codes in 1995 to ...

According to the NESEC, the largest earthquake centered in New York state happened on September 5, 1944. The magnitude 5.9 ...

Residents of the lower Hudson Valley may have reported feeling their second earthquake in four days Tuesday afternoon.

HILLSDALE, N.J. (AP) — A second small earthquake rattled the New York metropolitan area on Tuesday, days after the first. The ...

Earthquakes rattled the nation's two largest metropolitan areas Tuesday, sending a jolt across population centers of tens of millions, but thankfully didn't cause any impacts.

A small earthquake centered in northern New Jersey on Tuesday rattled the New York City metropolitan area, officials said.

The earthquake struck at 12:11 p.m. Tuesday with an epicenter near Hillsdale, N.J., roughly 20 miles from Manhattan. At 7.7 miles deep, the quake is considered shallow, according to the USGS.

Tuesday’s magnitude 2.7 earthquake was recorded just south of Hillsdale, N.J. — about 25 miles northwest of Midtown Manhattan ...