South Carolina was shaken by 10 earthquakes in little more than a week, having experts trying to figure out what’s causing this usual trend.
South Carolina was rocked by 10 earthquakes in little more than a week, sending experts scrambling to figure out what’s set off the shaky trend.
Two quakes were detected by the US Geological Survey on Wednesday, the latest in a string of tremors dating back to Dec. 27. None of the earthquakes has registered higher than that first 3.3-magnitude event, which was measured in Richland and Kershaw counties, officials said. That may mean the other quakes are aftershocks, though the fact they’re still coming more than a week later is unusual.
“They’re not dying away the way we would expect them to,” Steven Jaume, a College of Charleston geology professor, said. “What does that mean? I don’t know.” The state is actually near a regional fault system created when the Appalachian Mountains were formed that is long dormant — but could be waking back up, Jaume told
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