Scientist: Earthquakes were once routine here
Photo credit: Newsday / J. Michael Dombroski | At SUNY Stony Brook, professors Don Wydner and Cliff Thurber use tools including maps and a seismogram to locate an earthquake's epicenter. (Oct. 21, 1981)
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MAP: Past largest earthquakes near Long Island
Hundreds of millions of years ago - eons before Long Island even existed - this part of the world routinely seized with earthquakes, volcanoes spewed lava, and the violent collision of tectonic plates thrust up mountains taller than the Himalayas.
"To be able to live here at that time, there would have been countless earthquakes," said William Holt, a geophysicist at Stony Brook University....
