Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Virginia Earthquake Resources


A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit in Virginia August 31 at 1:51pm EST. No reports of injuries but buildings evacuated, and nuclear power plants shut down. Here are some resources on this:

USGS Information page for this earthquake
Google News search for earthquake virginia
Twitter search for #earthquake OR #equs OR #vaeq OR #dcquake
Washington Post blog entry
Virginia Seismic Zone on Wikipedia
Radioreference.com live scanner feeds
ESRI earthquake map (crowdsourced)


3 comments:

  1. We felt it here in Northwestern RI as the floor of the church's school and one corner of the building vibrated. Very strange.

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  2. In Western New York, I felt the building swaying side-to-side / east to west.

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  3. Correction - in Western New York, swaying was felt north to south.

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