QuakeIndex

Earthquakes in West Virginia

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Too few earthquakes here to say what is "normal"

Only 115 earthquakes of M1.5 or largerhave been recorded in West Virginia in the 10 years of record we hold, and most weeks have none. A QuakeIndex score is a percentile against this place's own weeks — and when almost every week is empty, that number would just be reporting whether anything happened at all, dressed up as a percentile. So we do not publish one.

This is a statement about West Virginia, not about our data: it is a quiet place. There have been none of M1.5 or larger in the last 7 days.

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. There is not yet enough history here to draw a normal range.

Live · last 7 days

Latest earthquakes in West Virginia

None in West 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 38.598, -80.870 — 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 West Virginia

MagnitudeWhenWhere
M 3.7 11 km NNW of Richlands, Virginia
M 3.4 9 km N of Blain, Pennsylvania
M 3.4 1 km S of McArthur, Ohio
M 3.4 1 km WNW of Batesville, Ohio
M 3.2 11 km NE of Peterstown, West Virginia
M 3.1 1 km NW of Chesapeake, Ohio
M 3.1 Tennessee-Virginia border region
M 3.1 2 km NNW of Oak Hill, Ohio

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

Counties in West Virginia

After an earthquake here