Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory

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84th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Section
of the Seismological Society of America
to be held at Virginia Tech: October 28–30, 2012

Meeting Web site

• Arrival time data and hypocenter locations from aftershock deployment in Louisa County
• August 23, 2011: Earthquake (M 5.8) and aftershocks in Louisa County, Virginia
• March 28, 2011: Earthquake ~1 mile SE of Pulaski, Virginia (M 2.5)
• February 20, 2011: Earthquake ~1 mile NW of Potts Creek, Virginia (M 2.8)
• October 2, 2010: Earthquake ~7 miles W of Doswell, Virginia (M 3.2)
• August 30, 2010: Earthquake ~5 miles NE of Mountain City, Tennessee (M 3.2)
• August 26, 2010: Two earthquakes ~4 miles S of Beckley, West Virginia (M 2.3 and M 2.5)
• August 21, 2010: Earthquake NE of Flatwoods, West Virginia (M 2.9)
• August 15, 2010: Earthquake NE of Flatwoods, West Virginia (M 2.8)
• July 25, 2010: Earthquake near Gassaway, West Virginia (M 2.8)
• July 24, 2010: Earthquake near Gassaway, West Virginia (M 2.6)
• July 16, 2010: Earthquake northwest of Germantown, Maryland (M 3.9)
• May 7, 2010: Two earthquakes near Gassaway, West Virginia (both M 2.6)
• April 29, 2010: Earthquake near Montpelier, Virginia (M 2.3)
• April 29, 2010: Two earthquakes near Gassaway, West Virginia (M 2.5 and M 2.9)
• April 11, 2010: Earthquake near Oilville, Virginia (M 1.4)
• April 4, 2010: Earthquake near Frametown, West Virginia (M 3.4)
• Broadband displacement seismograms from the M 8.8 February 27, 2010, Chilean earthquake

• We're giving a try -- follow @virginiaquakes for updates about earthquakes in and near Virginia!
• GIS Mapping of Site Response in Charleston, SC and Vicinity (USGS Award Number 00HQGR0036) now available

The Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory (VTSO) operates a digital seismic network with stations throughout Virginia. Along with other southeastern regional seismic networks, VTSO contributes to earthquake monitoring, information dissemination, and seismic hazard assessment objectives in the southeastern United States.

VTSO is supported by contributions from Mr. Daniel Yancey and BP.

VTSO compiles a Southeastern U.S. Earthquake Catalog which can be browsed or downloaded. This catalog contains both historical and recent, instrumentally located, earthquakes in the southeastern U.S. region. Since 1977, the southeastern regional seismic network operators have contributed over 1500 instrumentally located hypocenters and magnitudes to the catalog. Complete phase data and other seismological information for those events are contained in a series of Bulletins compiled by VTSO. The Southeastern U.S. Seismic Networks Bulletins can be also be browsed and downloaded. The instrumentally-located earthquake hypocenters and magnitudes from the SEUSSN bulletins 1-38 (1977-2003) are also contained in the ANSS Composite Earthquake Catalog.

• The VTSO

  • Observatory Personnel
  • Observatory History

• Earthquakes in Virginia

  • Overview
  • Virginia's Largest Earthquakes
  • Central Virginia Seismic Zone
  • Giles County Seismic Zone

• Virginia Tech Seismic Network stations

  • Recent Seismograms
  • Station Information

• SEUSSN: Southeastern US Seismic Networks

• VTSO Publications, Software, and Data

  • Publications and Reports
  • Data and Other Products
    
    
  • FOCMEC: FOCal MEChanism Package
  • Hypotable: a program for preparing spherical-earth ray-tracing tables in Hypoellipse format (for locating earthquakes)

• Earthquake Seismology Links