Another earthquake rattled through Gladstone, New Jersey, and was felt across the Delaware River in Bucks County this morning.
The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed a 2.6 magnitude earthquake hit the area at about 7 a.m. Wednesday morning and had almost 500 confirmed reports on the USGS website by 10 a.m.
Wednesday’s quake was the latest in dozens of smaller tremors felt in the area since early April, when a 4.8 magnitude quake occurred about 3 miles northeast of of Lebanon, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, with residents in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New York feeling it as well.
Another quake hits Gladstone:2.9 magnitude earthquake aftershock rattles NJ near Peapack and Gladstone
A 2.9 magnitude earthquake rattled New Jersey on Saturday morning about five miles south-southwest of Peapack and Gladstone in Somerset County.
“Earthquakes in this region are infrequent, but not unexpected,” Jessica Thompson Jobe, a researcher in the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Hazards Program, told reporters earlier this month. “This is an area of older, generally inactive faults, but they can become reactivated at any time.”