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The East Coast earthquake came from a fault that's been asleep for hundreds of millions of years but suddenly reactivated
The earthquake that just shook the East Coast was caused by one of dozens of ancient fault lines that have lain dormant for hundreds of millions of years, top scientists announced on Friday.
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New York and beyond rattled by rare East Coast earthquake
New York and cities on the US East Coast are assessing the impact of a rare earthquake that swayed ... Friday's quake may have happened on an old fault line that had become "reactivated".
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USGS and Yurok Tribe will map fault lines on California coast
Residents in far Northern California may see a low-flying, fixed-wing plane in the coming weeks. The information it gathers ...
Aspen Public Radio1d
Ancient earthquakes: Scientists investigate fault line that helped shape Colorado’s Rocky Mountains
A group of U.S. Geological Survey scientists scraped and studied the inside of a freshly dug trench just off the Rainbow Lake ...
Fault line means earthquake could shake area again
When people think of natural disasters in the Mid-South, the first thing that comes to mind is tornadoes, and for a good ...
California remains in puzzling earthquake ‘drought’ despite recent shaking
There's now an entire generation of Californians who have grown up without experiencing the damaging earthquakes we saw in ...
Tremors continue in SC as another earthquake hits, but this was in different part of state
It has been uncommon for earthquakes to hit outside of the Midlands area of the Palmetto State, specifically beyond Kershaw ...
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Ancient earthquakes: Scientists investigate fault line that helped shape Colorado’s Rocky Mountains
The trench, which was marked with yellow caution tape and signs declaring “open hole,’ was dug perpendicular to the Gore Range fault, which runs along the east side of the Gore Range and ...