{"id":379674,"date":"2026-10-22T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379674\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T13:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:32:07","slug":"small-earthquake-hits-near-randolph-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379674\/","title":{"rendered":"Small earthquake hits near Randolph, New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small earthquake was detected in Morris County, New Jersey, early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The 1.6-magnitude quake happened at 5:38 a.m. just over 3 miles southeast of Randolph, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us6000u42b\/executive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">United States Geological Survey<\/a>. It originated about 6 miles underground, the USGS says.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if there was any damage.<\/p>\n<p>The USGS has reported nine earthquakes in New Jersey in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The last one detected was also in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/new-jersey-earthquake-chester-morris-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Morris County<\/a>, southwest of Chester on Aug. 23, and had a magnitude of 1.1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The strongest was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us6000s5lx\/executive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2.4-magnitude quake<\/a> that hit about 3 miles outside of Bedminster in Somerset County on Jan. 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ramapo Fault line is an active fault line that runs through Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. It produces a number of earthquakes each year that are typically small, measuring low on the Richter Scale. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small earthquake was detected in Morris County, New Jersey, early Thursday morning. The 1.6-magnitude quake happened at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1224,40026,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-379674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-earthquake","tag-morris-county","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\/379674","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=379674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}