Nc Earthquake 2011

The east coast got a little taste of west coast style geology on tuesday afternoon with a 5 8 magnitude earthquake that shook buildings or at least rattled nerves from north carolina to canada.

Nc earthquake 2011. Earthquakes are followed by aftershocks. 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. Sunday s 5 1 earthquake is the strongest earthquake to happen in north carolina since 1916.

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. Sometimes aftershock can go on for hours days or week. Sunday s earthquake was the largest to hit north carolina since 1916 when a magnitude 5 5 quake was recorded according to the national weather service office in greenville.

An earthquake is the sudden quick shaking of the earth caused by the breaking and moving of underground rock. Some aftershock may be as strong as the original quake. A 5 8 magnitude earthquake in 2011 that struck mineral va around 200 miles northeast of sunday s earthquake is the largest one on the east coast in recent history.

This was the first big earthquake felt in our area since the virginia earthquake on august 23 2011 which was a 5 8. On sunday morning north carolina was shook with the most powerful earthquake our state has seen in over 100 years. Major earthquakes do not happen very often in north carolina.

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