A tiny earthquake struck close to the city of Sykesville, in northern Maryland, on Tuesday evening. The tremor was centered about 20 miles west of Baltimore and 30 miles north of Washington.
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Weak earthquake shook northern Maryland on Tuesday night
Tons of of individuals reported feeling the earthquake, which struck at 11:49 p.m. All however one report back to the USGS categorized the shaking as “weak.” That is the bottom shake ranking in a scale that spans throughout 9 classes, peaking at “very heavy.”
Whereas many of the reviews of shaking had been inside a couple of miles of the epicenter, shaking was felt as far-off because the Entrance Royal and Chantilly areas. It was additionally observed contained in the Beltway in Annandale, Bethesda and Silver Spring.
WTOP relayed phrase of some calls to 911 from residents of Howard County who “heard a increase or felt a rumble.”
There have been no reviews of harm. “Injury doesn’t often happen till the earthquake magnitude reaches someplace above 4 or 5,” the USGS wrote. Whether or not a weak quake causes injury is dependent upon soil kind and different localized elements.
The late-night quake was the primary to strike the realm since Aug. 18, 2021, when a magnitude 1.7 struck close to Woodlawn on the outskirts of Baltimore. Throughout the broader Washington-Baltimore area, about one quake of this depth is perhaps anticipated per yr. It’s also frequent to go a number of years with out one.
Virtually all earthquakes within the area are equally weak, with most unnoticed by residents. Final yr marked the tenth anniversary of a 5.8 earthquake that rocked the Mid-Atlantic. It struck close to Mineral, Va., on Aug. 23, 2011, and was the strongest east of the Rocky Mountains since 1944.