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Earthquakes in Vance County, North Carolina

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The most recent earthquake near Vance County was M 2.2, Hillsborough, NC, 74 km (46 mi) WSW of the centre of Vance County, at 11:49 am EDT on 19 October 2023, 5 km deep. 72 people reported feeling it to USGS. At that size and distance it was probably too weak to feel at the centre of Vance County.

No earthquake of M1.5 or more was recorded within 100 km (62 mi) of the centre of Vance County in the last 24 hours.

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Since 2016
1 earthquake of M1.5 or more
Largest since 2016
M 2.2 on 19 October 2023, Hillsborough, NC

Latest quake, 24 hours and 7 days: the QuakeIndex database, which reads USGS every 30 seconds, read at ; 30 days and 12 months: the QuakeIndex catalogue, counted to · earthquakes of M1.5 or more within 100 km (62 mi) of the centre of Vance County · shaking is estimated for the centre with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses

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Earthquakes are rare here

1 earthquake of M1.5 or larger has been recorded within 100 km in 10 years, and most weeks have none. There have been none in the last 7 days.

With so few, a QuakeIndex score — this week as a percentile of Vance County, North Carolina's own weeks — would only say whether anything happened at all, so none is shown. That is a statement about Vance County, North Carolina, not about our data.

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If you felt one

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The last 30 days

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Each mark is a day's largest quake within range; its size is the magnitude. Too few days here have any earthquake at all to draw a normal range.

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Every earthquake within 100 km of Vance County, North Carolina in the last 7 days, from the USGS feed. Colour and size are magnitude; tap one for its page.

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The centre is 36.365, -78.405, the Census internal point of Vance County, North Carolina from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Activity on this page is measured within 100 km of it — the dashed circle.

Largest on record nearby

The strongest shaking this record implies at the centre of Vance County, North Carolina is intensity I (not felt), from the M 2.2 of 2023, 74 km away. None of these is likely to have been felt there: the quakes are small for their distance.

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M 2.2 Hillsborough, NC · felt by 72 I · Not felt

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service · within 100 km of the centre above. Shaking is an estimate for the centre from magnitude, depth and distance, with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses (Atkinson & Wald, 2007), on the Modified Mercalli scale. Ground conditions change it locally; it is a description of the past, not a hazard rating.

Before 2016

The USGS record from 1900 to 2015 lists no earthquake of M5 or more within 100 km of the centre of Vance County, North Carolina.

USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900 to 2015. Epicentres of early earthquakes are estimates. This is the record, not a forecast.

Be ready

Earthquakes cannot be predicted, here or anywhere, so the useful step is the one taken beforehand. The advice below is from the agencies responsible for it.