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The capital city of Arkansas, Little Rock, would also face damage. [4] A major natural gas pipeline is located near the fault, and could be devastated by any such earthquake. [1] Tennessee and Mississippi would possibly be affected as well. [6] In 2006, a letter to the Seismological Research Letters indicated the possible existence of a fault ...
1700 Cascadia earthquake: November 18, 1755: Massachusetts: 5.9 M w 0: 1755 Cape Ann earthquake: July 21, 1788: Alaska: 8.0 M s: Unknown [1] August 6, 1788: Alaska 8.0 M s Unknown [1] December 16, 1811: Missouri: 7.5–8.0 M w 100 −500: 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes: December 8, 1812: California: 6.9 M la, 7.5 M w 40+ 1812 San Juan ...
The Guy–Greenbrier earthquake swarm occurred in central Arkansas beginning in August 2010. [2] The epicenters of earthquakes in the swarm showed a linear distribution, with a clear overall shift in activity towards the southwest with time, [3] and the largest event in the swarm was the 2011 Arkansas earthquake, at 4.7 on the moment magnitude scale.
Nearly 75% of the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii, could experience a damaging earthquake sometime within the next century, USGS study finds.
From 1900 to the present, only four other earthquakes with a magnitude greater than three were centered in Massachusetts — near Granville in 2000, near Hardwick in 1994, near the White Island ...
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake shook central Oklahoma late Friday night and was felt over a 200-mile radius from Kansas to Texas and Arkansas, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Throughout the year, earthquakes killed 584 people, making 2024 the least deadliest year for earthquakes since 2020. The vast majority of the year's fatalities were attributed to a M w 7.5 earthquake that struck the west coast of Honshu in Japan immediately after 2024 began, which was also the strongest event of the year and the deadliest in ...
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 ...