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Should NYC and the East Coast Worry About That Earthquake? Actually Yes.
but they are a relatively rare occurrence on the East Coast. A geology professor explained to NBC New York that the city rests upon a “lazy plate,” meaning that the slipping of tectonic plates ...
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The East Coast earthquake came from a fault that's been asleep for hundreds of millions of years but suddenly reactivated
"This is an area of older, generally inactive faults, but they can become reactivated at any time," Jessica Jobe, a geologist at the US Geological ... of tectonic plates. The East Coast, however ...