According to a Virginia Department of Energy release, “the earth’s crust is stronger here,” said Martin Chapman, director of the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory.
Accordingly, shock waves traveling away from an earthquake’s epicenter don’t lose as much energy as they would during California earthquakes. For instance, the 2011 earthquake caused modest.
To moderate damage in central Virginia, Washington, DC, and southern Maryland, and it was felt by millions of people around the eastern coast.
Virginia has had about 200 earthquakes since 1977. They were big enough to shake the earth, at least 29 of them. One of the roughly six quakes that Virginia experiences year is felt.
