{"id":237292,"date":"2026-05-19T21:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237292\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:42:19","slug":"1-8-magnitude-earthquake-hits-near-gladstone-n-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237292\/","title":{"rendered":"1.8-magnitude earthquake hits near Gladstone, N.J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A minor earthquake shook in Somerset County, New Jersey, Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It happened at 12:30 p.m. about 3 miles west of Gladstone.<\/p>\n<p>The 1.8-magnitude quake took place about 3 miles below the surface, according to the United States Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p>Several dozen people reported to the USGS that they felt the quake.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/new-york-new-jersey-possible-earthquake-august-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3.0-magnitude quake<\/a>\u00a0hit Hasbrouck Heights, and was followed less than a week later by a 2.7 quake in Hillsdale.<\/p>\n<p>The Ramapo Fault is an active fault line that runs through the north central part of New Jersey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back in April 2024, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/earthquake-new-york-new-jersey\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">4.8-magnitude earthquake<\/a>\u00a0centered in Tewksbury was felt up and down the East Coast by some 42 million people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey&#8217;s strongest-ever earthquake was 5.3 magnitude, and took place back in 1783.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A minor earthquake shook in Somerset County, New Jersey, Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0 It happened at 12:30 p.m. about 3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1224,1066,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-237292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-earthquake","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}