Earthquake In Virginia

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Earthquake in virginia. Maintaining the volcano and earthquake news sections on this website the free volcano webcams tool and interactive map widget is a free time both time and server cost intensive effort. The usgs reported that the quake was felt as far south as augusta georgia and as far north as staunton virginia. In august 2011 a 5 8 magnitude earthquake occurred was centered in virginia but was felt it in south carolina too the emergency management division tweeted.

The 2011 earthquake was the second strongest on record in the east and was strongest on record in virginia. Officially the usgs measured the 2011 quake as a 5 8 magnitude. M1 5 or greater 0 earthquakes in the past 24 hours 0 earthquakes in the past 7 days.

The earthquake struck shortly after 8 a m. On august 23 2011 a magnitude 5 8 earthquake hit the piedmont region of the commonwealth of virginia united states at 1 51 04 p m. Tremors from sunday s early 5 1 magnitude earthquake could be felt as far as fairfax.

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Online cc payment thank you. Utc local system time. A 5 1 magnitude earthquake hit about 2 miles from the town of sparta north carolina along the state s border with virginia according to the preliminary report from the us geological survey.

Edt the epicenter in louisa county was 38 mi 61 km northwest of richmond and 5 mi 8 km south southwest of the town of mineral it was an intraplate earthquake with a maximum perceived intensity of vii very strong on the mercalli intensity scale. 4 earthquakes in the past 30 days. An unusually strong magnitude 5 8 earthquake struck central virginia in 2011.

The earthquake hit early sunday morning in sparta north carolina around 12 miles from the virginia stateline.