An Interesting Read on Alabama Earthquakes

Our friend Steve Jones at the AlabamaQuake website has written an excellent summary of earthquakes in North Alabama. He wanted to make readers over here on AlabamaWX aware of it since we pay quite a bit of attention to earthquakes when they happen around here.

He writes: “Earthquakes are actually fairly common in the eastern half of the United States, and we see in Alabama the effects from the Southern Appalachian Seismic Zone (SASZ), which roughly follows the Appalachian Mountains from southwestern Virginia into the northeastern corner and central part of Alabama. The USGS says that, “the Southern Appalachian Seismic Zone is one of the most active earthquake zones in the eastern United States.”

Check out the new page, and read also the report prepared to be featured during the next few days at AlabamaQuake about the Japan M9.0 2011 earthquake, “Anatomy of a Mega-Quake” – its URL is https://alabamaquake.com/reports.html#Japan_M9.0_2011

Category: Alabama's Weather