Significant Quakes Strike East Coast & Colorado
- John Cornelison
- August 23, 2011
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The region between Richmond and Charlottesville in Virginia received a 5.9 magnitude earthquake at 1:51 p.m. on Tuesday.
Colorado got a 5.3 quake near Trinidad just before Noon. The only larger quakes since 1882 were from human activity: explosives or drilling – pumping waste underground that apparently lubricated the fault line!
The USGS reports there was no correlation between the two quakes.
Social media (Twitter) carried many reports on these…
