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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
June 12, 2017 12:28 Near the coast of western Turkey see 2017 Lesbos earthquake: 38.932 26.364 1 6.3 M w (USGS) Centred 4 km south of Plomarion, Greece, at a depth of 10.4 km. [236] June 14, 2017 07:29 Guatemala see 2017 Guatemala earthquake: 14.982 -91.988 5 6.9 M w (USGS) Centred 5 km NNE of San Pablo, Guatemala, at a depth of 94.0 km. [237 ...
A fault off the Pacific coast could devastate Washington, Oregon and Northern California with a major earthquake and tsunami. Researchers mapped it comprehensively for the first time.
U.S. Geological Survey National Center in Reston, Virginia Earthquake animations from May 16 to May 22, 2010 Earthquakes around the world from April 23 to May 23, 2010. Since 2012, the USGS science focus has been directed at topical "Mission Areas" [8] that have continued to evolve. Further organizational structure includes headquarters ...
Washington County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 53,935. [1] Its county seat is Abingdon. [2] Washington County is part of the Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol, TN-VA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area, commonly known as the "Tri-Cities" region ...
WA state has the second-highest risk of large earthquakes in the U.S., according to the Washington Department of Natural Resources.
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]