For Virginia, the earthquake that struck Tuesday was the big one. The state hasn’t suffered a quake of this size since the slightly larger one that rattled Giles County in 1897. “That’s the ...

Previously, the largest earthquake recorded in the area, known to seismologists as the Central Virginia Seismic Zone, was a 4.8-magnitude quake that occurred outside Richmond in 1875, according to ...

Virginia has two active and well-defined zones of earthquake activity. One is in central Virginia and is called the Central Virginia Seismic Zone (CVSZ). The other is in Giles County and is called ...

The largest earthquake in the Central Virginia Seismic Zone to cause any major damage was the 5.8-magnitude earthquake that shook Washington, D.C. in 2011, the USGS says.

Virginia Tech geosciences professor Martin Chapman told CBS 6 that Richmond is in the Central Virginia Seismic Zone. "You might see another earthquake about this style or are smaller in the same ...

USGS said a 2.8 magnitude earthquake rumbled nearly 5 ½ miles from Louisa, Virginia, along the central Virginia Seismic Zone shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday.

The Washington area appears on the U.S. Geological Survey's earthquake maps as a region excluded, existing in an unnamed gray area outside the boundaries of any defined seismic zone.

Four earthquakes have hit Central Virginia this year, including two that shook the Richmond area in recent weeks. Why it matters: Richmond isn't cursed; there's a geological reason for our seismic ...

DILLWYN, Va. — A 2.8 magnitude earthquake struck central Virginia on Tuesday afternoon, the United States Geological Survey reported.

If you live in Central Virginia, chances are you might have experienced a minor earthquake yesterday evening. The quake’s epicenter was just north of the Glen Allen area, leaving many residen… ...