The strongest earthquake in SC in 8 years shakes the District of Columbia | Columbia News

COLOMBIA – Residents of the District of Columbia woke up early June 26 to the strongest earthquake in South Carolina since 2014.

A 3.4-magnitude earthquake, with an epicenter outside Elgin in Kershaw County, in the Midlands, struck at 1:30 a.m. for several seconds and was strong enough to shake walls, floors, and furniture inside homes. This was followed by three smaller aftershocks.

Residents from as far afield as Charlotte and Aiken reported feeling the quake, the US Geological Service said.

The latest earthquake is one of several that have centered in recent months on Green Hill Road, a gravel road off Interstate 20 with dozens of homes near a sand mine and drag racing strip.

The SC’s Emergency Management Division said the area around Elgin, about 20 miles northeast of Colombia, has been the epicenter of 36 earthquakes since Christmas. The rest of the state has seen six earthquakes since late last year.

The weekend quake was the strongest since a 4.1-magnitude earthquake shook Sumter National Forest in Edgefield County in February 2014, according to data from the SCN Department of Natural Resources.

The latest quake came a week after a 3.9-magnitude earthquake centered 75 miles west of Savannah, Georgia, felt in the region from Atlanta to parts of South Carolina, including Columbia.

All but eight of the earthquakes since Christmas in the Elgin region have been less than 2.5 – the level at which earthquakes are felt and can cause minimal damage.

But the area was hit by a 3.25-magnitude quake on May 9, the third most powerful of the recent cycles of the Midlands Tremors.

Earthquakes occur along an ancient fault system called the Eastern Piedmont Fault Zone, which stretches from Georgia through the Carolinas to Virginia, according to Scott White, director of the South Carolina Seismic Network at the University of South Carolina.

White said in an interview in May that the longevity of the recent sequence of earthquakes in central South Carolina, now at seven months, “is considered unusual but within the range of expected behavior” from the past.

“It could stop at any time, but when it will stop is unknown,” White said.

South Carolina typically experiences 10 to 30 earthquakes annually, according to the state’s Department of Emergency Management. About one in five of those feel it, with the majority feeling less than 3.0 on the volume scale, the agency reports.

The most powerful earthquake to hit the state was on August 31, 1886. The 7.3-magnitude earthquake was centered around Charleston-Summerville and was felt by people from Cuba to New York and west of the Mississippi River. It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the eastern United States

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