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Charleston, SC Earthquake – 1886. South Carolina earthquakes occur with the greatest frequency along the central coastline of the state, in the Charleston area. South Carolina is the most seismically active state on the east coast. [1] At 7.3 magnitude, the Charleston earthquake of 1886 was the largest quake to ever hit the Eastern United ...
The Old White Meeting House near Summerville, Dorchester County, South Carolina was reduced to ruins. [10] Other man-made structures were also damaged as a result of earth splits caused by the earthquake. Railroad tracks in Charleston and nearby areas were snapped and trains were derailed. Dams broke, which caused flooding in surrounding farms ...
Map showing Earth's principal tectonic plates and their boundaries in detail. These plates comprise the bulk of the continents and the Pacific Ocean.For purposes of this list, a major plate is any plate with an area greater than 20 million km 2 (7.7 million sq mi)
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.
The 1888 earthquake in Río de la Plata was an intraplate quake, [8] from reactivated faults in the Quilmes Trough, far from the boundaries of the South American plate. With a magnitude greater than 5.0 it was felt "in the cities of Buenos Aires, La Plata and other small towns and villages along the Rio de Plata coastal regions."
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Molucca Sea plate – Small fully subducted tectonic plate near Indonesia; Nazca plate – Oceanic tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin; North American plate – Large tectonic plate including most of North America, Greenland and part of Siberia; Philippine Sea plate – Oceanic tectonic plate to the east of the Philippines
The South American plate is a major tectonic plate which includes the continent of South America as well as a sizable region of the Atlantic Ocean seabed extending eastward to the African plate, with which it forms the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.