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On August 23, 2011, a rare, magnitude 5.8 quake struck in Virginia and jolted the East Coast. Here are stories about the event and background on earthquake science
August 23, 2011 |
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Staff at Scientific American in New York City felt the August 23 earthquake and quickly snapped some shots of the scene in Manhattan
Tuesday’s quake, epicentered near Mineral, Va., is tied for third largest in the past 228 years
Ask the Experts
William Menke, a seismologist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, explains the origins of the magnitude scale for temblors
Earthquake detection systems can sound the alarm in the moments before a big tremor strikes—time enough to save lives
David Oglesby, a geophysicist at the University of California, Riverside, explains how these mighty processes cease
A USGS video simulates a magnitude 7.0 quake in the San Francisco Bay Area
Enter what you felt during today's earthquake at earthquake.usgs.gov to aid geologists. Steve Mirsky reports.
An earthquake in Indonesia can mean future tremors in California. David Biello reports
Recent studies show that New York City has more seismic activity than previously thought, but big earthquakes still remain geologically unlikely
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