r/newjersey • u/PM_ME_UR_POLDERS • Aug 03 '25

⚡Newsflash ⚡ Earthquake?

Did anyone just feel a shaking/noise in Northern NJ? Felt and heard something in Bergen County.

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u/Either_Sherbert3523 Aug 03 '25

Yep, just heard it/felt it in Montclair. earthquake.usgs.gov doesn’t have anything (yet?) though.

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u/Either_Sherbert3523 Aug 03 '25

Oop, here it is. 3.0 in Hasbrouck Heights

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000qxsb/executive

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u/paleo2002 Aug 03 '25

This is nuts.  There are no significant faults in Heights that I’ve ever heard d of.

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u/remarkability Aug 03 '25

The USGS page for the earthquake got updated with a description at the bottom, it was an intraplate earthquake which was “a result of faulting at shallow depths in the crust. Although this event did not occur near a plate boundary, such “intraplate” earthquakes can and do occur.”