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Map showing the Cottage Grove Fault in green. The quake struck on Saturday, November 9, 1968, at 11:02 a.m. [8] The quake's epicenter was slightly northwest of Broughton in Hamilton County, [9] and close to the Illinois–Indiana border, about 120 miles (190 km) east of St. Louis, Missouri. [10]
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The following is a list of earthquakes in Illinois. Earthquakes ... 1968: 5 km (3.1 mi) SSW of Norris City, ... Seismicity map of the State of Illinois (Report ...
The largest NMSZ earthquake of the 20th century was a 5.4-magnitude quake on November 9, 1968, near Dale, Illinois. The quake damaged the civic building at Henderson, Kentucky, and was felt in 23 states. People in Boston said their buildings swayed.
Isoseismal map for the 1968 Illinois earthquake. In seismology, an isoseismal map is used to show countour lines of equally felt seismic intensity, generally measured on the Modified Mercalli scale. Such maps help to identify earthquake epicenters, particularly where no instrumental records exist, such as for historical earthquakes.
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A small earthquake shook homes along the southern stretch of the Tri-Cities on Friday night. At around 9:20 p.m. a 2.8 magnitude earthquake was registered two miles from Richland by the Pacific ...
1 person was killed and 22 were injured in the 1968 Hyuga-nada earthquake. Some homes were destroyed in both the earthquake and a subsequent tsunami. 1: 22 1 [42] [43] Japan, off the east coast of Kyushu: 6.8: 30.0: VI Aftershock. 9 [44] [45] United States, southern California: 6.6: 10.0: IX Some damage was caused by the 1968 Borrego Mountain ...