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CENTRAL VIRGINIA — The solar eclipse wasn't the only excitement in Virginia yesterday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey [U.S.G.S.], a 2.1 magnitude earthquake with a depth of 5.0 km ...
More than 70 people reported feeling the earthquake. A 2.6-magnitude earthquake struck near the North Carolina-Virginia border around 5 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 25, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.
Cross-sectional illustration of normal and reverse dip-slip faults. The earthquake occurred in the Virginia seismic zone, located in the Piedmont region. [8] The Virginia Piedmont area was formed originally as part of a zone of repeated continental collisions that created the ancestral Appalachian Mountains, a process that started during the Ordovician period with the Taconic orogeny and ...
An earthquake struck the East Coast of the United States on Friday morning, according to the U.S. ... And before that, a 5.8-magnitude quake shook central Virginia in 2011, ...
Wyatt–Shinston–Cheat Mountain, West Virginia: 100–103 deaths; Wellsburg, West Virginia/Oakland, Maryland: 30 deaths; Pittsburgh–Somerset, Pennsylvania: 17 deaths; 134 1960 1960 New York mid-air collision: Accident – aircraft New York City, New York: 134 1967 1967 USS Forrestal fire: Fire (ship) Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam >$72,000,000 132 ...
2011 Virginia earthquake Washington (state) 8.7–9.2 January 26, 1700 1700 Cascadia earthquake West Virginia: 5.8 August 23, 2011 2011 Virginia earthquake Wisconsin: unk. May 6, 1947 1947 Wisconsin earthquake Wyoming: 7.2 August 17, 1959 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported that a magnitude 5.8 M w earthquake hit Virginia on Tuesday, August 23, 2011, at 17:51:04 UTC (1:51 pm Eastern Daylight Time). The quake occurred at an approximate depth of 3.7 miles and was centered in Louisa County (location at 37.936°N, 77.933°W), 5 miles SSW of Mineral, Virginia and 37 miles NW of Richmond, Virginia's capital. [3]
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