REVEALED: The largest earthquakes to hit the East Coast in history – including a 7.8 quake that killed 60 people in South Carolina

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake rocked New Jersey and New York City on Friday, adding itself to the long list of earthquakes to hit the US East Coast.

The earthquake occurred at approximately 10:23 a.m. ET, approximately four miles northeast of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey.

This is the first time a major earthquake has struck the East Coast since 2011, when a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck just outside Washington DC. The tremors were felt from North Carolina to Maine.

In 2002, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck the center of the Adirondack Mountains and damaged a 200-foot section of a road near Plattsburgh, New York.

Another major earthquake struck Reading, Pennsylvania in 1994, with a magnitude of 4.6 and at the time was one of the strongest earthquakes in the region in history.

It caused about $2 million in damage and caused the most destruction on the East Coast since the 1944 New York earthquake.

Messena, New York, suffered $2 million in property damage in 1944 when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake—the largest to ever hit the state—destroyed chimneys, home foundations and plumbing systems.

The $2 million recorded in 1944 would amount to roughly $35 million by 2024.

However, the largest earthquake to hit the East Coast in US history was in 1886, when a magnitude of 7.3 struck Charleston, South Carolina.

The earthquake killed 60 people and caused significant damage to nearly every structure in the city, with destruction reaching central Ohio as well.

Earthquakes have been recorded in the US dating back to 1700, but it wasn’t until 1964 that the largest earthquake ever struck Prince William Sound, Alaska.

The earthquake had a magnitude of 9.2 on the scale of 10 and was the second largest ever recorded around the world, after a magnitude 9.5 struck Chile in 1960.

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