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The earliest event within New York that is shown on the map occurred in 1916, near Saratoga. New York’s biggest earthquakes have occurred in the Adirondack Mountains. In 1983, an event with ML of 5.1 occurred near the town of Newcomb, and in 2002 an event with ML of 5.3 occurred in Ausable Forks. For western New York, the biggest events have been a 1929 earthquake about 25 miles east of Buffalo, with ML of 4.7, and events in Attica of ML 4.3 and 4.1, in 1966 and 1967, respectively.

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