"In California, you get something like this once every month. "The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported two nearby dams on the Savannah River appeared to be undamaged, but planned a thorough inspection Saturday morning, Edgefield County Emergency Preparedness Director Mike Casey said.Casey said the quake was centered in a sparsely populated part of Edgefield County where there are a lot more rabbits and deer than people. "It felt like an explosion. "This is not a seismically active area. Nikki Haley felt the earthquake at the governor's mansion in Columbia. "It's not terribly unusual. I could be looking at damage in the dark and not know it. Clicking the map icon in the top right corner will load the map. "We have events like this about every 10 to 20 years. It registered a magnitude of 4.1. A 4.3-magnitude earthquake happened in Georgia in August 1974 several miles west of Friday's quake.
©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. All market data delayed 20 minutes. The snow and ice dumped by an unusually severe winter storm were melting, once-frigid temperatures were rising and residents of South Carolina and Georgia finally had begun to relax.A small earthquake shook both states late Friday, shaking homes and rattling residents hundreds of miles away.The quake happened at 10:23 p.m. and had a preliminary magnitude of 4.1, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's website. "We've had hundreds of calls of people saying the tremors knocked pictures off walls, and a couple said their windows were cracked," said Herbert Dodd, head of emergency services in Chattooga County, Georgia, not far from the epicenter on the Georgia-Alabama border. "One thought a tree had fallen" under the weight of ice dumped by the storm, he said.Earthquakes aren't unheard of in the region. According to a Web site affiliated with Georgia Tech, there appear to be two minor faults in northwest Georgia, the Cartersville and Rome faults; one that runs more or less along the Chattahoochee River; and two more in Central Georgia.
No injuries were reported, but police said there also have been power outages around Sand Rock, Alabama, and Lookout Mountain, which spans Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia. Screen shot: USGS 1,104 major (6.0+) to super (8.0+) earthquakes hit various places worldwide over the last 2,237 days. Intensity Epicenter Depth (km) Deaths Injuries Source 2009 Georgia earthquake September 8 6.0 M w: VII: 15 2002 Tbilisi earthquake: Tbilisi Minor earthquake - South Africa - July 31, 2020. Southeastern Kentucky, northeastern Mississippi and the western parts of North and South Carolina also felt the tremor, according to the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado. .. .. Check out our latest daily earthquake list. " or redistributed. My house was shaking for 10 or 15 seconds. .. but there are no reports of major damage or injuries," said Sabrina Harris, director of DeKalb County, Alabama's 911 department. "It was felt widely. Long said the building code isn't as strict in the Southeast as it is on the West Coast. We've got aftershocks," she said. Géorgie du Sud-et-les Îles Sandwich du Sud.