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Earthquakes in New York

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The most recent earthquake of M2.5 or more in New York was M 2.5, 6 km SE of Lowville, New York, at 9:59 pm EDT on 25 April 2026, 2 km deep. 4 people reported feeling it to USGS. 5 smaller earthquakes have been recorded in New York since.

No earthquake of M1.5 or more was recorded in New York in the last 24 hours.

Last 24 hours
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Last 7 days
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Last 30 days
0 · since 2016, about one every 1 months
Last 12 months
19 · largest M 2.8 on 21 March 2026
Since 2016
122 earthquakes of M1.5 or more
Largest since 2016
M 4.8 on 5 April 2024, 2024 Tewksbury, New Jersey Earthquake

Latest quake, 24 hours and 7 days: the QuakeIndex database, which reads USGS every 30 seconds, read at ; 30 days and 12 months: the QuakeIndex catalogue, counted to · earthquakes of M1.5 or more in New York, where USGS names the state in the location

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0 quakes of M1.5 or larger in the last 7 days in New York. Normal for here is 0 to 1 in a week.

Compared against New York's own 10 years · USGS catalogue · updated

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The last 30 days

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Each mark is a day's largest quake within range; its size is the magnitude. The shaded band is the magnitude a day's largest quake normally falls in here (M1.6–M2.2), from this place's own 10-year record. A mark above the band is a bigger day than usual.

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Latest earthquakes in New York

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Largest on record in and around New York

MagnitudeWhenWhere
M 4.8 2024 Tewksbury, New Jersey Earthquake
M 4.1 24 km ESE of Orillia, Canada
M 3.8 1 km NE of West Seneca, New York
M 3.7 7 km WSW of Gladstone, New Jersey
M 3.6 New York
M 3.4 9 km N of Blain, Pennsylvania
M 3.4 5 km SW of Franklin, Canada
M 3.3 14 km W of Ellisburg, New York

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service · inside a rectangle drawn around New York, which takes in some ground over its borders.

Before 2016: the largest in New York since 1900

The USGS record from 1900 to 2015 lists 6 earthquakes of M5 or more in and just off New York:

  1. 5.7 The 1944 Massena, New York Earthquake
  2. 5.3 8 km NNW of Au Sable Forks, New York
  3. 5.3 29 km NNE of Val-des-Monts, Canada
  4. 5.1 Near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
  5. 5.1 The 1983 Blue Mountain Lake, New York Earthquake
  6. 5.1 20 km NNE of Shawville, Canada

USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900 to 2015, each epicentre counted for the state whose nearest county it is. Epicentres of early earthquakes are estimates. This is the record, not a forecast.

Counties in New York

Be ready

Earthquakes cannot be predicted, here or anywhere, so the useful step is the one taken beforehand. The advice below is from the agencies responsible for it.