Six months after an earthquake shook the East Coast, its lessons still reverberate through the emergency management, engineering and geological communities.
The magnitude-5.8 quake, centered in the tiny town of Mineral, Va., demonstrated that earthquakes aren’t just a West Coast threat. Big quakes had hit the East Coast before but not recently nor with the frequency or ferocity of those in California.
But the Aug. 23 quake was felt by more people than any other in American history, said Marcia McNutt, director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Her agency estimates that one-third of the U.S. population — in 3,400 ZIP codes from Georgia to New York— felt the quake.
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