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Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory


Beaverdam Earthquake: August 3, 2009


On Sunday, August 3rd, 2009 at 16:22:41 UTC, a minor earthquake with a magnitude of mblg=1.6 occurred just east of Beaverdam, Virginia.

This is another small shock in a sequence of small earthquakes that have occurred this summer in the Richmond, Virginia area.

Seismograms

Seismogram
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Maps

Map
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