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Earthquake in SC
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Did You Feel It?
(Marlboro County) - An earthquake shook South Carolina early Monday morning.
According to the National Earthquake Information Center, a magnitude 3.6 earthquake occurred about four miles from Blenheim, South Carolina in Marlboro county. A quake this size is classified as "minor."
Believe it or not, this isn't the first earthquake to hit South Carolina in the past week. The Earthquake Information Center says a magnitude 3.5 earthquake hit just a few miles away, near Bennettsville, at about 7:30am Friday.
Earthquakes of this magnitude can usually be felt at many places as far as 60 miles from where they occur and rarely do damage near their source. The largest earthquake in our area was a magnitude 5.1 in 1916. Moderately damaging earthquakes strike the Carolinas every few decades, and smaller ones are felt about once each year or two.
You can check the stats about these two earthquakes at the U.S. Geological Survey Website.
Darcie Rosenthal, Producer
Did You Feel It?
(Marlboro County) - An earthquake shook South Carolina early Monday morning.
According to the National Earthquake Information Center, a magnitude 3.6 earthquake occurred about four miles from Blenheim, South Carolina in Marlboro county. A quake this size is classified as "minor."
Believe it or not, this isn't the first earthquake to hit South Carolina in the past week. The Earthquake Information Center says a magnitude 3.5 earthquake hit just a few miles away, near Bennettsville, at about 7:30am Friday.
Earthquakes of this magnitude can usually be felt at many places as far as 60 miles from where they occur and rarely do damage near their source. The largest earthquake in our area was a magnitude 5.1 in 1916. Moderately damaging earthquakes strike the Carolinas every few decades, and smaller ones are felt about once each year or two.
You can check the stats about these two earthquakes at the U.S. Geological Survey Website.
Darcie Rosenthal, Producer
Comments
Did You Feel It?
Yes, but I thought it was just my farting at 5:30am that shook the bed.
But being originally from California and having been through some big earthquakes I'm not even real sure I would hardly notice a 3.5.
It would have to get up to about a 5.0 or bigger before it would even phase me. And then it would have to get to about a 6.0 or bigger before I would even think about getting worried.
I actually did feel a small vibration really late last night, but I just assumed it was a truck passing outside or some machinery.
Heres a story on the one in Bennetsville