Latest Earthquakes Magnitude 2.5 or Greater in the United States and Adjacent Areas and Magnitude 4.5 or Greater in the Rest of the World - Last 7 days

Conservative Refocus

Shake, rattle and roll all up and down the East Coast.

The Jolt of 5.9 on the Richter scale, set many a vehicle, home and building to jittering around causing many of us, not used to quakes, to look for other more plausible possibilities. Couldn't be a quake, not in my backyard, that never happens !

Yet happen it did.

According to experts the quake emanated from the Rapono fault which is an ancient, yet very deep fault which runs from the mid-Atlantic to the Adirondacks in New York. In looking at recent quake data, the US has been unusually active of late, no doubt due at least in part, to the Bush Presidency of nearly three years ago.

Buildings in cities such as New York and DC including the Pentagon are being emptied of their human content as the US east coast over-reacts in a comfortably typical fashion.

However below, you can get a feel for what is actually happening in the realm of quakedom by looking at the last seven days of global quake activity.

This list contains all earthquakes with magnitude greater than 2.5 located by the USGS and contributing networks in the last week (168 hours). Magnitudes 4.5 and above are in bold font. Magnitudes 6 and above are in red. (Some early events may be obscured by later ones on the maps.)

The most recent earthquakes are at the top of the list. Times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Click on the word "map" to see a ten-degree tall map displaying the earthquake. Click on an event's "DATE" to get a detailed report.

USGS Website

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Update time = Tue Aug 23 19:00:05 UTC 2011

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