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Most earthquakes in the state have been small or have produced minimal impacts. No earthquake-related fatalities have been reported in the state, though one earthquake in Texas caused a death in the neighboring Mexican state of Chihuahua in 1923. The earliest recorded earthquake in Texas occurred near Seguin and New Braunfels on February 13 ...
The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state. [1] While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants.
Earthquake swarms which affected the United States: 1962–71 Denver earthquake swarm [38] Enola earthquake swarm; 2008 Reno earthquakes; Guy-Greenbrier earthquake swarm; Oklahoma earthquake swarms (2009–present) Earthquakes which affected the United States but whose epicenters were outside the United States borders:
Nearly two months after the last notable earthquake, Lubbock and West Texas felt tremors from a 5.1-magnitude earthquake in Martin County Monday night. Here is what we know.
And Floyd County isn't even the nation's most disaster-prone county. Neighboring Johnson County has 15 disasters declared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency since 2011. When it comes to extreme weather and other so-called natural disasters, people generally look to the hurricane or earthquake-prone coasts and say that's where the danger is.
The governor of Texas on Monday declared states of disaster in 24 counties, citing the severe weather and flash flooding that have killed at least two people. The state has been pounded by ...
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory. [1] [2]
Five counties — three of them in New York — received more than $1 billion in FEMA aid, led by Manhattan's New York County, which got $8.9 billion, nearly all of it due to 2012's Hurricane Sandy.