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Locations of quakes magnitude 2.5 or greater in the Wabash Valley (upper right) and New Madrid (lower left) Seismic Zones. The Wabash Valley seismic zone (also known as the Wabash Valley fault system or fault zone) is a tectonic region located in the Midwestern United States, centered on the valley of the lower Wabash River, along the state line between southeastern Illinois and southwestern ...
The New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid fault line (or fault zone or fault system), is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the Southern and Midwestern United States, stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri.
Source: Wikimedia Commons California, Alaska, even Hawai'i. These are the states that people normally associate with earthquake activity. Until recently, Ohio was most certainly not on that list.
The earthquake's epicenter was in the Southern Great Lakes seismic zone, about 25 kilometers (16 mi) southwest of Meadville; its depth was 5 kilometers (3 mi).The earthquake caused minor damage in towns near its epicenter and was felt in the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Illinois and New Jersey, as well as Southern Ontario in Canada.
A small earthquake could be felt early Saturday morning near Alliance. Did you feel it?
The earthquake originated roughly four miles southeast of Madison, Lake County, and could be felt as far away as Akron, Lorain and Erie, Pennsylvania. Northeast Ohio shook by 3.6 magnitude ...
Thrust fault: Active: 2008 Sichuan (M8.0) Lost River Fault: Idaho, United States: Normal: Active: 1983 Borah Peak (M6.9) Lusatian Fault: Germany: Thrust fault: Macquarie Fault Zone >400: South Pacific Ocean: Fault (geology)#Strike-slip faults: Active: 1989 Maquarie Isl. (8.2), 2008 Macquarie Island earthquake (M7.1) Mae Chan Fault: 120 ...
On January 31, 1986, at 11:46 EST (16:46 UTC), an earthquake of M b 5.0 struck 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of Cleveland, Ohio, and about 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant. [1]