Monday’s 3.3-magnitude earthquake in southeast Ohio felt by many folks was one of many quakes to hit the region over the last 100 years.
Chief Meteorologist Chad Merrill explains:
Just this year alone, two earthquakes hit West Virginia, one right in our backyard in Richwood and another in the eastern Panhandle. The New River Gorge is located on a fold and thrust belt and an occasional earthquake can happen. Two earthquakes hit very close to Monday’s 3.3-magnitude quake near Chesapeake, Ohio, in 1979 and 1983. The reason for the long history of earthquakes in Ohio has to do with its proximity to the edge of the New Madrid seismic zone and small faults that exist within the North American Continental Crust, for which Ohio sits on.
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