Earthquake Shakes Hudson Valley Wednesday Morning

A small earthquake hit the Hudson Valley at 6:14 a.m. Wednesday just north of the Putnam-Westchester border. According to the US Geological Survey, it was a magnitude 2.2 on the Richter Scale.

The epicenter was in Crofts Corners, according to the USGS and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

Did you feel it? Report it to the US Geological Survey.

Magnitude-2.2

Date-Time

• 7 Feb 2018 11:14:01 UTC
• 7 Feb 2018 06:14:01 near epicenter
• 7 Feb 2018 06:14:01 standard time in your timezone

Location-41.362N 73.871W

Depth-6 km

Distances

• 5 km (3 miles) NNW (338 degrees) of Lake Mohegan, NY
• 5 km (3 miles) NW (316 degrees) of Shrub Oak, NY
• 8 km (5 miles) E (95 degrees) of Highland Falls, NY
• 42 km (26 miles) NW (319 degrees) of Stamford, CT
• 73 km (46 miles) N (3 degrees) of New York, NY

Lamont-Doherty says earthquakes aren't rare in the Hudson Valley:

Since colonial times people in the New York - Philadelphia - Wilmington urban corridor have felt small earthquakes and suffered damage from infrequent larger ones. New York City was damaged in 1737 and 1884. Moderately damaging earthquakes strike somewhere in the urban corridor roughly twice a century, and smaller earthquakes are felt roughly every 2-3 years.
Earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S., although less frequent than in the western U.S., are typically felt over a much broader region. East of the Rockies, an earthquake can be felt over an area as much as ten times larger than a similar magnitude earthquake on the west coast. A magnitude 4.0 eastern U.S. earthquake typically can be felt at many places as far as 100 km (60 mi) from where it occurred, and it infrequently causes damage near its source. A magnitude 5.5 eastern U.S. earthquake usually can be felt as far as 500 km (300 mi) from where it occurred, and sometimes causes damage as far away as 40 km (25 mi).