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Definition of Earthquake: is a stress on the rock becomes too great, the rock breaks and becomes too great, the rock breaks and snaps into a new position.
The earthquake in Charleston South Carolina occurred in 1886 on August 31. ...
Key Facts: This was and still is the most damaging earthquake to occur in the largest historic shocks in Eastern North America. It damaged or destroyed many buildings in the old city of Charleston and 16,000 people were killed. ... Structural damage was reported several hundred kilometers from Charleston (including Central Ohio, Eastern Kentucky, Southern Virginia, and Western West Virginia) and long – period effects were observed at distances exceeding one thousand kilometers. ... Damaged railroad tracks, about six kilometers northwest of Charleston, included lateral and vertical displacement of tracks, formation of s-shaped curves and longitudinal movement. ... At Summerville, a small town of two thousand population, twenty-five kilometers northwest of Charleston, many houses settled in an inclined position or were displaced a five centimeters. ... The meizoseismal area of MM intensity x effects is an elliptical area, roughly thirty-five by fifty kilometers, trending northeast between Charleston and Jedburg and including Summerville. Middleton Place, about in the center of this ellipse, is at the Southeast end of the zone of micro-earthquake activity that still continues today. This seismic activity may be a continuation of 1886 aftershock series. ... This problem is still being studied more than one hundred years after the earthquake.
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