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3.0 Magnitude Earthquake Rumbles New York City Less than 2 Years After the Last One

The 3.0-magnitude earthquake that shook the East Coast comes a year and a half after a 4.8-magnitude quake shocked New York City and its surroundings

By Meghan Bartels edited by Jeanna Bryner

A 3.0 magnitude earthquake, with an epicenter near Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, was felt throughout parts of New Jersey and New York on August 2, 2025, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

New York City and the broader East Coast were shaken by a 3.0-magnitude earthquake late on August 2, reminding locals of a significantly larger quake that startled the region in April 2024.

The earthquake, which occurred at 10:18 P.M. local time, was centered near Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., about 10 miles from downtown Manhattan, at a depth of about six miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Neither New York City nor Bergen County, N.J., where Hasbrouck Heights is located, reported major damage or injuries, according to the New York Times.

Earthquakes large enough to be felt are uncommon in the eastern U.S. “It’s a pretty quiet part of the country,” Benjamin Fernando, a seismologist at Johns Hopkins University, told Scientific American in 2024.


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However, small earthquakes, with magnitudes of 2.5 or lower, are quite common in the region. The earthquake magnitude scale is logarithmic, with each whole-number increase in magnitude representing a 10-fold increase in the size of the seismic waves it produces. That means the 2024 earthquake was 63 times bigger than the August 2 event. (The massive earthquake that rattled Russia just days ago, a magnitude 8.8 event, produced seismic waves a stunning 630,000 times larger in amplitude than the August 2 New Jersey quake.)

A set of concentric circles cropped within a rectangular frame are scaled to show the amplitude of earthquakes measuring 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and 9.0 on the Richter scale. Each whole number increase corresponds to a 10-fold increase in amplitude. A second set of concentric circles cropped within a rectangular frame are scaled to show the energy released by earthquakes measuring 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 on the Richter scale. Each whole number increase corresponds to a 32-fold increase in energy.

In turn, the August 2 event created seismic waves with about three times the amplitude of a 2.5 magnitude event that represents the high end of typical activity in the region.

The August 2 earthquake occurred nearly 40 miles away from the 2024 earthquake, which is too far away for it to be considered an aftershock of the previous event, although the 2024 quake does continue to spur aftershocks, according to the USGS.

The USGS attributed the August 2 earthquake to “faulting at shallow depths in the crust” and noted that it did not occur near a plate boundary. The region has many faults, but these fractures in Earth’s crust are very old—they date to the era when the Appalachian and Blue Ridge Mountains were built, hundreds of millions of years ago.

Although the East Coast is not prone to large earthquakes like the West Coast, the rattling of an East Coast quake is felt more broadly because the hard bedrock of the region transfers seismic energy more efficiently than the heavily faulted West Coast bedrock.

If you felt the quake, share your observations with USGS.

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