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Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory


Beaverdam Earthquake: August 2, 2009


On Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 at 21:57:7.8 UTC, a minor earthquake with a magnitude of mblg=2.3 occurred just East of Beaverdam, Virginia.

This is another small shock in a sequence of small earthquakes that have ocurred this summer in the Richmond, Virginia area.

Seismograms

Seismogram
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Maps

Map
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