North Carolina
Earthquakes Rattle Virginia & North Carolina for Memorial Day
Three earthquakes rattled parts of Virginia and North Carolina over the past 24 hours in accordance with USGS; the Memorial Day quakes didn’t create any injury nor result in any accidents. At this time’s earthquake in North Carolina was the third of the month. There doesn’t seem like any relationship between the Virginia and North Carolina earthquakes right now.
The primary earthquake struck 15 km south of Louisa, Virginia final evening at 10:03 pm at a depth of 5.5 km. That earthquake was the strongest of the bunch and was ranked a magnitude 2.3 occasion.
At 2:07am this morning, a 1.8 magnitude earthquake struck western North Carolina northwest of Mooresville close to Hickory. 14 folks reported to USGS that they felt the early-morning earthquake. The shallow earthquake had a depth of a 3rd of a kilometer.
Simply after midday right this moment, a second earthquake struck the Louisa, Virginia space. Ranked as a magnitude 1.7 occasion, it was situated in the identical space as final evening’s 2.3 earthquake.
