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2011 Virginia earthquake Washington (state) 8.7–9.2 January 26, 1700 1700 Cascadia earthquake West Virginia: 5.8 August 23, 2011 2011 Virginia earthquake Wisconsin: unk. May 6, 1947 1947 Wisconsin earthquake Wyoming: 7.2 August 17, 1959 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake
see June 2011 Christchurch earthquake-43.580 172.740 1 6.0 M w (USGS) Centred 13 km NNE of Christchurch, New Zealand, at a depth of 9 km. [17] June 24, 2011 03:09 Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States 52.008 -171.859 0 7.2 M w (USGS) Centred 64 km SW of Amukta Island, Alaska, United States, at a depth of 62.6 km. [18] June 29, 2011
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The earthquake, along with a magnitude-5.8 quake on the border of New York and Ontario in 1944, is the largest to have occurred in the U.S. east of the Rocky Mountains since an 1897 quake centered in Giles County in western Virginia [22] [23] whose magnitude has been estimated as 5.8 [24] or 5.9. [25]
WA state has the second-highest risk of large earthquakes in the U.S., according to the Washington Department of Natural Resources.
It came on the heels of two other earthquakes on June 7 in the same area near the city of Buford — a 2.5 magnitude quake and another of 2.1 magnitude, which shook the area a few hours earlier ...
The 2011 Virginia earthquake was felt by more people than any other quake in U.S. history, with tremors also being felt in Canada. [78] Several people were injured and damage was reported in the states of Virginia, the capital Washington D.C., [79] Delaware, [80] Maryland, [81] West Virginia, [82] Pennsylvania, [83] New Jersey, [84] and New ...