Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported that a magnitude 5.8 M w earthquake hit Virginia on Tuesday, August 23, 2011, at 17:51:04 UTC (1:51 pm Eastern Daylight Time). The quake occurred at an approximate depth of 3.7 miles and was centered in Louisa County (location at 37.936°N, 77.933°W), 5 miles SSW of Mineral, Virginia and 37 miles NW of Richmond, Virginia's capital. [3]
According to the U.S. Geological Survey [U.S.G.S.], a 2.1 magnitude earthquake with a depth of 5.0 km rattled parts of Central Virginia around 10:46 p.m. on Monday, April 8.
Earthquakes which did not affect the United States directly, but caused tsunamis which did: 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami – magnitude 9.5 earthquake, between 2200 and 6000 fatalities, including 61 in Hilo, HI; 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake and tsunami – magnitude 8.3 earthquake, no injuries or fatalities anywhere
The first, six-level intensity scale was proposed by Egen in 1828 for an earthquake in Rhineland. [4] [5] Robert Mallet coined the term "isoseismal" and produced a map for the 1857 Basilicata earthquake with a three-fold intensity scale and used this and other information to identify the epicentral area (a term he also coined). [6]
In 2011, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake near Mineral, Virginia, shook East Coast residents over a wide swath from Georgia to Maine and even southeastern Canada. The USGS called it one of the most ...
About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center.Most are tiny and barely noticed by people living where they happen. But some are strong ...
Articles related to natural disasters in Virginia, including avalanches, droughts, earthquakes, floods, heat waves, landslides, tropical cyclones, volcanic activity and wildfires Wikimedia Commons has media related to Natural disasters in Virginia .
More than 70 people reported feeling the earthquake. A 2.6-magnitude earthquake struck near the North Carolina-Virginia border around 5 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 25, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.