the largest in the central Virginia seismic zone was the 5.8 quake of 2011 that caused substantial damage in the District. Under the system for describing earthquake magnitudes, the 5.8 was about ...
The second earthquake happened around 2:50 a.m. Wednesday ... Earthquakes are not necessarily a rare event in Central Virginia. In 2011, a powerful 5.8 magnitude quake struck in Louisa County.
In addition to the Virginia earthquake, there were nine tremors in the area immediately around Cokedale, Colorado, near the border of New Mexico, the largest of which was a 5.3 magnitude.
A 2.8 magnitude earthquake rattled parts of Virginia on Tuesday, around 5:30 p.m. The quake occurred a little over a half mile northeast of Wyndham, at a depth of 0.1 kilometers. Over 1,300 ...
A seismograph in Virginia Beach, Va. is shown in a Tuesday, August 23, 2011 file photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/The ...