The 2011 Virginia earthquake: What are scientists learning?

JW Horton Jr, RA Williams - Eos, Transactions American …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Nearly 1 year ago, on 23 August, tens of millions of people in the eastern United States and
southeastern Canada were startled in the middle of their workday (1: 51 PM local time) by …

[PDF][PDF] An earthquake history: Finding faults in Virginia

WS Kelly, AC Witt - The Virginia News Letter, 2015 - researchgate.net
The Earth is dynamic. The tectonic plates that make up the outer layer of the Earth are in
constant motion. Stress from their motion transfers across space and accumulates through …

[图书][B] The tectonics of intraplate regions: Quantifying stress and surface deformation in the central and eastern US and planetary analogs on Mercury and the Moon

LS Walsh - 2013 - search.proquest.com
Occurring~ 1 year apart, the magnitude 3.4 Germantown, Maryland,(16 July 2010) and
magnitude 5.8 Mineral, Virginia,(23 August 2011) earthquakes rocked the US national …

[PDF][PDF] Earthquake Magnitudes Before and After the Mineral, Virginia Event

C Liu - Geology, 2013 - geol.umd.edu
Intraplate earthquakes can occur in the interior of tectonic plates but are very rare. Similar to
all earthquakes, they can generate changes in stress in the aftershock zone, near-fields, and …

[引用][C] REVIEW OF THE RARE CENTRAL VIRGINIA M5. 8 EARTHQUAKE OF AUGUST 23, 2011

JW Horton, RA Williams