"If you think there have been more earthquakes than usual this year, you're right. A new study finds there were more than twice as many big earthquakes in the first quarter of 2014 as compared with the average since 1979.
"We have recently experienced a period that has had one of the highest rates of great earthquakes ever recorded," said lead study author Tom Parsons, a research geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Menlo Park, California." (continue at link above)
Seismic Shaking
a 5.9-magnitude earthquake striking Virginia Aug. 23, with shaking reported as far away as New York City, Toronto and other eastern cities. LiveScience
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