Digital Geodata Series
DGS04-1 Earthquakes Epicentered In New Jersey

(345KB). Updated 07-30-2008

Abstract

The New Jersey Geological Survey Digital Geodata Series DGS04-1 download contains a (GIS) point dataset in an ESRI shapefile which has data of earthquakes that had epicenters in New Jersey. This shapefile has 153 earthquakes with epicenters in New Jersey. Most are minor with magnitudes ranging from 0.4 to 5.3 and depths up to 25 km below sea level. Earthquakes with magnitude of 0 (zero) implies that the magnitude is unkown.

An earthquake of magnitude 2.1, depth 1 km, on July 28, 2008, 15 km SE of Phillipsburg, NJ added to the data since October 11, 2007 version.

The ESRI shapefile, database files are combined with FGDC compliant metadata and Adobe™ PDF document njearthquakes.pdf in a compressed 'zip' file, dgs04-1.zip.

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