Earthquakes in Georgia: a Significant History
Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 03:08PM 
The recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile were shocking events that gained the attention of the entire world. Most people sympathized with the plight of those inhabitants and many were certainly generous with time, money and materials but the reality is that we still hold a measure of aloofness because neither happened close to us. But have you ever thought of the possibility of something happening right here in Georgia?
We had a small taste of natural disasters when parts of Georgia and Alabama were flooded around September 2009 but what about earthquakes? It may surprise you to know that the state of Georgia has a fault line running through it!
The Brevard Fault Line runs southwest-northeast across Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina with reportable earthquakes since the 1800’s. Most of the more recent earthquakes have not registered high enough on the Richter scale to be felt but there have been some notable ones in history.
The last reported earthquake in Georgia was on March 25, 2010 at 10:43 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) with a magnitude of 2.5! Although it seems that there is a low probability of an earthquake of significance here in the South, would you know what to do if there were? Check out the links below for tips on how to prepare and to see more information about the history of earthquakes in Georgia.
www.Neic.usgs.gov
www.Earthquake.usgs.gov/prepare
Chloe L. Hudson - Senior Contents Technician
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