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Right after a magnitude-4.8 earthquake shook the New York metropolitan area and beyond, a team of geologists from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory including Folarin Kolawole, Zachary Foster-Baril, and Sean Kinney headed to the field to better understand exactly what had just happened, combing the New Jersey countryside for signs of earthquakes past and present.

Learn more: https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/new-jerseys-ancient-rocks-hunting-clues-earthquake-2024

📷: Structural geologist Folarin Kolawole and postdoc Zachary Foster-Baril of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory prepare to analyze a rock outcrop next to the Lake Solitude Dam in High Bridge, NJ near the epicenter of the magnitude-4.8 earthquake that took place the previous week on April 5, 2024. Credit: Kevin Krajick

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