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Old Posted Oct 6, 2013, 2:20 AM
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Originally Posted by scalziand View Post
NY has a fairly good chance of getting moderate earthquakes of 6-7 magnitude every once and a while.
That is not obviously true. According to Wikipedia, the largest known earthquake in the New York region "had a magnitude of approximately 5."
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