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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.
BLACKSBURG, Va. (WSET) — While Metallica rocks Lane Stadium this evening, something else may very well be shaking on Tech's campus. Dr. Martin Chapman, a seismologist at Virginia Tech, says the ...
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 ...
A battalion of volunteers fished more than 35,000 pounds of trash out of the New River in Giles County this spring, including heaps of discarded tires, nonprofit officials said. There are now ...
The exact location of the epicenter was 7 kilometers south of Dillwyn in Buckingham County, which is not far from Farmville, Virginia. It is rare for Virginia to feel the effects of earthquakes ...
A 3.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded in central Virginia on Tuesday afternoon, May 6, the United States Geological Survey said. The earthquake was reported about 5 miles south of Dillwyn, Virginia, ...
A 3.0 magnitude earthquake centered in Dillwyn, Virginia, about an hour away from Richmond in Buckingham County, rocked homes ... the earthquakes here. It’s just that it’s the strain and ...
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Virginia (WTVR) — A 3.0 magnitude earthquake occurred near Dillwyn ... My house then shook and everything rattled. Lasted just a few seconds. My first thought was an explosion ...
The Giles County mine where a worker died last year ... 50, of Oak Hill, West Virginia, was killed. The Virginia Department of Energy issued a closure order immediately after Moore’s death ...