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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 ...
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 ...
A small earthquake rattled parts of west-central Virginia Tuesday afternoon.According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 2.8-magntitude earthquake was recorded around Dillwyn and Farmville around 1: ...
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.
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 ...
pearisburg, va. — The Virginia State Police is investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash in Giles County, Va. which involved two Mercer County residents, according to a press release Friday.
Just a stone’s throw from Blacksburg is Giles County, Virginia. This county, nicknamed “Virginia’s Mountain Playground,” is home to a number of small towns and recreation opportunities ...
A small earthquake that startled residents near Richmond, Virginia ... Tuesday just before 5:30 p.m. EST, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Residents in Richmond and Henrico County felt ...
A magnitude 2.8 earthquake rattled the Short Pump area northwest of Richmond on Tuesday evening, with people as far away as Fairfax County ... we just have an EARTHQUAKE in Richmond, VA in the ...
LAWRENCE COUNTY ... Ohio-Kentucky-West Virginia borders, just northwest of Chesapeake, Ohio. Based on USGS’s Community Internet Intensity Map, the majority of the earthquake was felt in ...
Photo by Ray Meese for Virginia Tech ... in the area right now, and I’d rather give back than sit back at home and watch the news.” A contact in Giles County led Isabelle Largen, assistant ...
This riverside neighborhood outside Pembroke in Giles ... the county (whose slogan is “Virginia’s Mountain Playground”) has organized a regular clean-up day to make sure the river is free of whatever ...