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2011 Virginia earthquake. On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of Virginia at 1:51:04 p.m. EDT. The epicenter, in Louisa County, was 38 mi (61 km) northwest of Richmond and 5 mi (8 km) south-southwest of the town of Mineral. It was an intraplate earthquake with a maximum perceived intensity of ...
1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes Texas: 6.5 August 16, 1931 1931 Valentine earthquake Utah: 7.0 November 13, 1901 1901 Richfield earthquake U.S. Virgin Islands: 7.5 November 18, 1867 1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami Vermont: 4.0 March 31, 1953 [55] Virginia: 5.8 August 23, 2011 2011 Virginia earthquake Washington (state) 8.7–9.2
6.0–6.9. 204. 5.0–5.9. 2271. ← 2010. 2012 →. This is a list of earthquakes in 2011. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in damage and/or casualties, or are notable for some other reason. Smaller events in remote areas will be excluded from the list as they wouldn't have generated significant media ...
Disasters Hurricane Irene reaches Category 2 strength as it hits the island of Hispaniola containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic. (CNN) A magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes near Mineral, Virginia ; a nearby nuclear reactor is automatically shutdown due to the quake. This is the most powerful earthquake to hit Virginia since 1897. (New York Times) (The Guardian) International relations ...
August 23 is the 235th day of the year ... 2011 – A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in ...
1138 Aleppo earthquake. October 11, 1138. Aleppo, Seljuk Empire (modern-day Syria) 130,000–230,000 [ 12 ] 7.1 [ 12 ] The figure of 230,000 dead is based on a historical conflation of this earthquake with earthquakes in November 1137 on the Jazira plain and the 1139 Ganja earthquakein the Azerbaijani city of Ganja.
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The 2009 season featured a Friday night game on December 25, as the Thursday that week was Christmas Eve, and the NFL tried not to schedule games that night in deference to the holiday (a lone exception being a Monday Night Football game in 2007 due to scheduling conflicts caused by ESPN's broadcast contracts). Also, the start times were pushed ...