NEW YORK (PIX11) – A 2.1-magnitude earthquake shook upstate New York on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake hit roughly 269 miles north of New York City, in the Adirondack Mountains, around 10:23 a.m. The epicenter of the earthquake was located around 7 miles from Elizabethtown, according to the USGS. Can […]
RIDGELY, Tenn. – A 3.8 magnitude earthquake that originated along the New Madrid Seismic Zone in northwest Tennessee Thursday morning was felt from over 100 miles away and while no damage was reported from the event, the shaking served as a reminder that the area was still capable of producing earthquakes. The U.S. Geological Survey reported […]
From Dec. 16, 1811, to Feb. 7, 1812, three major earthquakes violently shook part of the central United States. Trees bent and snapped. Sand blows erupted. Chimneys toppled and cabins collapsed. Crashing waves tormented boats on the Mississippi River, which appeared to run backward. A swath of marshes became the 15,000-acre Reelfoot Lake. The earthquakes […]
A 2.2 magnitude earthquake struck south of Charlotte’s airport a few hours after midnight on Monday, according to reports from the U.S. Geological Survey. The magnitude of the earthquake was very small, according to Kenneth Taylor, state geologist for the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. The scale ranges from 2.5 or less (usually not […]
TREMONTON, Utah (ABC4) — A 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck northern Utah early Saturday morning, according to the University of Utah Seismograph Stations (UUSS). “The University of Utah Seismograph Stations (UUSS) reports that a minor earthquake of magnitude 3.9 occurred at 02:36 AM on May 04, 2024. The epicenter of the shock was located about 16 […]
Two weeks after a massive deadly earthquake, Taiwan was rocked by more quakes on the night of April 22, 2024, causing buildings to sway and some to collapse. A viral video posted on Facebook claims to show the most recent of these recent seismic events. However, this is misleading: the footage is a compilation of […]
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.1 struck Wednesday afternoon near Corona in Riverside County. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the quake struck at 1:49 p.m. about 5.3 miles southwest of Corona. The quake was initially reported as a 4.5 magnitude but was later reduced. Residents in Riverside and Orange counties reported the […]
A 4.1-magnitude earthquake shook the Southern California area, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The nearly 1-mile deep quake hit about 5 1/2 miles southwest from Corona in Riverside County, about a 40-mile drive southeast from Los Angeles, at 1:49 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, according to the USGS. More than 6,000 people from as far away […]
The Friday night earthquake that lightly rattled southern areas of the Tri-Cities was a bit of an outlier for the area. Earthquakes already are not common in the Tri-Cities area, but most recent ones have been either much shallower or much deeper. At about 9:20 p.m. Friday a 2.8 magnitude earthquake was registered in the […]
An earthquake was detected in Ohio on Sunday night. >>Endangered Missing Adult Alert issued for Clark County woman A 2.3 magnitude earthquake occurred in Northwest Ohio in Wood County around 8:12 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Lake Township Fire posted on social media that the earthquake shook Lake Township and the surrounding area. […]
A strong earthquake that struck southwestern Japan left nine people with minor injuries and caused damages such as burst water pipes and small landslides, authorities said, but there was no danger of a tsunami. The magnitude 6.6 quake on Wednesday was centered just off the western coast of the southwestern main island of Shikoku, in […]
Dash-cam footage of a violently shaking highway in Taiwan’s capital Taipei was falsely shared online as showing the small earthquake that rattled New York on April 5. The footage previously appeared in news reports about Taiwan’s strongest quake in decades — published days before the rare US East Coast tremor. “New York earthquake,” read the […]