Erie County’s Department of Public Works has found no significant damage to county infrastructure following a minor earthquake that centered in West Seneca this morning.
The 3.8 magnitude quake struck approximately one mile northeast of West Seneca at approximately 6:15 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz indicated this morning that no structural damage should have occurred from an earthquake of that magnitude, as per a professor at UB’s Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory.
According to USGS, Western New York “has had moderately frequent earthquakes at least since the first one was reported in 1840. The largest (magnitude 4.9) caused moderate damage in 1929 near Attica, New York. Earthquakes too small to cause damage are felt roughly three or four times per decade, although only one was felt during the 1940s and eight were felt during the 1960s.”
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