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Earthquakes in Virginia

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0 quakes of M1.5 or larger in the last 7 days in Virginia. Normal for here is 0 to 1 in a week.

Compared against Virginia's own 10 years · USGS catalogue · updated

The last 30 days

Aug 29 Sep 13 Sep 27
Each mark is a day's largest quake within range; its size is the magnitude. The shaded band is the magnitude a day's largest quake normally falls in here (M2.0–M2.4), from this place's own 10-year record. A mark above the band is a bigger day than usual.

Live · last 7 days

Latest earthquakes in Virginia

None in Virginia in the latest snapshot we hold; the full 7 days load from USGS as this page opens.

Source USGS · snapshot of

Where this is

Centre 37.799, -78.501 — the mean of this state’s place centroids, from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Activity is measured across a rectangle drawn around the state, so a few earthquakes just over its border are counted too.

Largest on record in and around Virginia

MagnitudeWhenWhere
M 5.1 4 km SE of Sparta, North Carolina
M 4.1 3 km NNE of Little Creek, Delaware
M 3.7 11 km NNW of Richlands, Virginia
M 3.4 1 km S of McArthur, Ohio
M 3.2 11 km NE of Peterstown, West Virginia
M 3.1 1 km NW of Chesapeake, Ohio
M 3.1 10 km WSW of Bean Station, Tennessee
M 3.1 Tennessee-Virginia border region

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service · inside a rectangle drawn around Virginia, which takes in some ground over its borders.

Counties in Virginia

After an earthquake here