BLACKSBURG, Va. – Five earthquakes in a month - raising questions for many people in Southwest Virginia. Two in Giles County ... the east coast in 2011. “It just came out of the blue ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the small town of Mineral, Virginia was was the epicenter of a 5.9 magnitude earthquake earlier this afternoon, making today’s quake at least equal in ...

It wasn’t just the Metallica concert at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg causing seismic waves this week, a 3.0 magnitude earthquake was ... of western Virginia (Giles County) and in Central Virginia ...

A small earthquake shook Central Virginia Tuesday afternoon. The Blacksburg-based Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory recorded a 3.0-magnitude quake just ... in 1897 in Giles County.

The United States Geological Survey reports a 2.7 magnitude earthquake shook the ground at 8:55 p.m. The official location was 9 kilometers south-southwest of Narrows, Virginia. The temblor had a ...

They are the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone along the Tennessee border in Southwest Virginia, the Giles County Seismic ... There are just better tools to measure them now and more ways for people ...

Earthquakes are common in Virginia. Just not earthquakes like this ... was an estimated 5.6 to 5.9 magnitude that hit Giles County, west of Blacksburg near the West Virginia border, in 1897.

Giles County Administrator Chris McKlarney said county workers immediately went to check on school buildings and other county properties. The last measurable earthquake in the area was in May.

On May 31, 1897, the largest earthquake ever recorded in Virginia’s modern history was centered in Pearisburg in Giles County. Seismologists estimated the earthquake registered 5.8 on the ...