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Ramapo Fault Line Project
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strike-slip fault
•being able to monitor earthquakes is essential•
ability to provide a detailed prediction is limited based on lack of advanced instruments and equipment
Part of north-east striking, southeast dipping fault
•Largest known here on August 10, 1884
off the coast of Far Rockaway
epicenters are scattered, but can follow a southwest to northeast trend
damaging earthquakes have occurred several times in the last 3 centuries
•active at different times during the evolution of the Appalachians, especially Mesozoic•served as border faults
•earthquakes with magnitudes as high as 5.2 throughout lower Hudson region around Peekskill, NY•Wappingers Falls June 7, 1974•Annsville January 17, 1980
Works Cited
•Advanced National Seismic System
partners with the U.S. Geological Survey in developing operational and scientific ability to reduce earthquake hazard and predict impending earthquakes
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2004/story04-30-04b.html
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