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

If there's an earthquake and nobody feels it, did it really happen? Yes, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The East Coast is crisscrossed with ancient faults, including the Ramapo Fault that runs through southeastern New York.

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

New Jersey doesn't typically come to mind when you think of earthquakes, but the state has already been rattled by two this ...

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 ...

The earthquake hit in the New Jersey suburb of Hasbrouck Heights at about 10:18 p.m. Eastern time at a depth of about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers). It was felt fairly widely in northern parts of the ...

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

The recent temblors were classified as “weak,” and may have been connected to a bigger earthquake last year in the area.

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