The magnitude 5.8 earthquake that struck central Virginia on August 23 was a rare event, but not a surprising one. “This is an area where small earthquakes had occurred in the past and were well-documented,” said Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics at Stanford. The earthquake was centered approximately four miles beneath the town of Mineral, Va., which lies roughly halfway between Charlottesville and Richmond. There were reports that...
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