Buffalo earthquake

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake struck the suburbs of Buffalo, New York, early Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The center of the quake was near West Seneca, officials said. ABC News' Michael Kreisel and Ahmad Hemingway contributed to this report. This is a developing story.

The USGS said the region gets “moderately frequent earthquakes,” most weak enough that they don't cause damage. A 3.8-magnitude earthquake is relatively weak ...

The scale used to measure earthquakes is logarithmic, so each number is 10 times more severe. The quake was centered about 4 miles east of Buffalo, and happened about 2 miles underground, according to the U.S. The USGS has received more than 2,500 reports from people who say they felt the quake, including Niagara Falls, Rochester and southern Ontario. “You know you are from Buffalo when an earthquake wakes you up and your first thought is ‘was that a snow plow?,’” tweeted Kevin O’Neill. “Thought it was snow falling from the roof,” one Twitter user wrote. “It felt like a car hit my house in Buffalo,”

The U.S. Geological Survey preliminarily reported a 3.8 earthquake centered in the suburb of West Seneca.

Small earthquakes are not unusual in upstate New York but are rarely felt as strongly. Seismologist Yaareb Altaweel said it was the region's strongest quake in at least 40 years. No damage has been reported at this time.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Many Western New Yorkers were shook awake on Monday morning by an earthquake. Earthquakes Canada reported that a 4.2 magnitude quake was ...

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The quake, which registered as 3.8 magnitude according to the U.S. Geological Survey, occurred at 6:15 a.m. near West Seneca, N.Y., a suburb just southeast of ...

The quake was also felt [across the border in Canada](https://twitter.com/CANADAquakes/status/1622555831878270976). The largest, which was magnitude 4.8, happened in 1929 near Attica, N.Y. [the West Seneca Police Department](https://twitter.com/wspolice/status/1622558289593507843). [shaking homes](https://twitter.com/foxweather/status/1622570632906002435) and small [cracks in cement](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23buffaloearthquake&src=trend_click&vertical=trends). [any reports of damage,](https://twitter.com/GovKathyHochul/status/1622573828969840640) though some local officials were brushing off the temblor. [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/markpoloncarz/status/1622577023401984011).

“It felt like a car hit my house in Buffalo. I jumped out of bed,” Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said of Monday's 3.8-magnitude quake.

[more than 3,600 people](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/78-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-central-turkey-rcna69251) in the country and neighboring Syria. There was another 2 in 2020. There was one, a 2.6, in March 2022. That’s why earthquakes can be felt even at 1.0 in some places,” he said. Butcher, who said a “confirmed quake was felt as far north as Niagara Falls and south to Orchard Park.” It’s old and cold, and the efficiency of transferring the seismic waves versus sedimentary areas — that’s why people can feel it more.

The shaking lasted a few seconds and sent residents first to their windows and then to social media in search of an explanation.

The 5.8-magnitude earthquake was felt from Canada to Maryland and Indiana to Maine. Seismologist Yaareb Altaweel said it matched the intensity of the strongest earthquake the region has seen in 40 years of available records — a 3.8 quake that was recorded in November 1999. The state's largest earthquake was reported on Sept. “It felt like a car hit my house in Buffalo. [1.2-magnitude temblor shook Le Roy](https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2022/08/17/earthquake-genesee-county-near-rochester-ny/65407658007/), Genesee County, in August 2022, a [2.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Warsaw, ](https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2022/03/16/earthquake-reported-rochester-ny-region-wyoming-county-near-warsaw/7058803001/)Wyoming County, in March 2022 and a [2.4-magnitude temblor struck the hamlet of Tuscarora ](https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2021/05/28/earthquake-rochester-ny-region-livingston-county/7485056002/)in southwestern Livingston County in May 2021. I jumped out of bed,” Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz tweeted. It did $2 million in damage in Massena and Cornwall, Canada. The earthquake comes on the heels of two record-breaking weather events in the Buffalo region: A snowstorm that dropped as much as 7 feet of snow in November and a On a scale from 1 to 10, the West Seneca earthquake produced an intensity of 4 in the Buffalo area, Hatem said, and a 2 in the Rochester area. [Earthquakes in New York State](https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/2013/05/17/canada-earthquake-causes-rumbling-in-rochester/2193631/) are not uncommon [Earthquake Canada](https://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent/2023/20230206.1115/index-en.php), which measured a 4.2 magnitude event, reported it was felt slightly in southern Ontario. [3.8-magnitude](http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jlqv/executive) earthquake centered east of Buffalo in the suburb of West Seneca at about 6:15 a.m.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 3.8 magnitude earthquake at 6:15 a.m. centered on the northeastern edge of West Seneca, near the Lackawanna border.

"It was just a shocking event, and we reacted pretty much the same way as everybody else did." In May 2020, the U.S. [2.3 magnitude earthquake](https://buffalonews.com/news/local/reported-2-3-magnitude-earthquake-felt-in-hamburg/article_70459da0-977f-5a6e-b5c6-05a12cb92924.html) that was felt by Hamburg residents. There are electric substations near the reported epicenter in the Mineral Springs-Indian Church roads area, Dickson said. They occur frequently in Western New York, which has the Clarendon-Linden fault system, but on a scale that makes them go unnoticed. That was still 10 times larger on the logarithmic scale, he said, than what Buffalo experienced. "I am relieved, at this point, that it doesn't look like there are any injuries or much in the way of property damage," Mayor Byron Brown said. "The house trembled. "I heard a loud bang, and then the building started shaking," said Jorge Luis Vega, who lives at the Mill at Crossroads on Doat Street. LiPuma said something fell off the wall in his basement. centered on the northeastern edge of West Seneca. The U.S.

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake rattled the Buffalo, New York, area early Monday. The quake struck around 6:15 a.m. and was centered just over a mile northeast ...

[CNN affiliate WKBW](https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/3-8-magnitude-earthquake-reported-in-wny) received reports of people around the region feeling the rumbling Monday, including across the border in Ontario, Canada. The county also issued a “code blue” warning last week and opened three warming shelters as [dangerously cold temperatures](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/03/weather/winter-storm-northeast-new-england-friday/index.html) gripped the northeast. The quake struck around 6:15 a.m.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Many Western New York residents were awoken Monday morning by a 3.8 magnitude earthquake. USGS reported that 3.8 magnitude earthquake was ...

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A minor earthquake hit western New York Monday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey reports the quake with an epicenter in the Buffalo suburb of West Seneca ...

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The Buffalo NY earthquake today came after an earthquake in Turkey killed more than 1000 people.

Rochester reported a 2.6 magnitude one nearly three years ago, but that earthquake saw much fewer reports of shaking, [according to NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/buffalo-new-york-area-hit-strongest-earthquake-40-years-rcna69282). [according to Spectrum](https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/weather/2020/09/08/earthquakes-in-new-york#:~:text=In%20Rochester%2C%20New%20York%2C%20the,reports%20of%20the%20ground%20shaking.). Kathy Hochul's office acknowledged the earthquake on Twitter and said no damage had been reported. No injuries were reported either. [according to USGS.](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jlqv/impact)

The U.S. Geological Survey preliminarily reported a 3.8 earthquake centered east of Buffalo in the suburb of West Seneca at about 6:15 a.m. Seismologist Yaareb ...

County emergency services officials confirmed the earthquake was felt in at least a 30-mile radius, including in Niagara Falls, about 20 miles north of Buffalo, he said. Small earthquakes are not unusual in upstate New York but are rarely felt as strongly. Seismologist Yaareb Altaweel said it was the region's strongest quake in at least 40 years. "It felt like a car hit my house in Buffalo. Strongest earthquake in 40 years hits western New York: "It felt like a car hit my house in Buffalo" [reported a 3.8 earthquake](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jlqv/executive) centered east of Buffalo in the suburb of West Seneca at about 6:15 a.m.