Earthquake — South Carolina: Charleston

When

1 Sep 1886

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.3

Where

Usa

Coordinates

32.90° N, 80.00° W

Deaths

60

Damage musd

6

Intensity mmi

10

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Earthquake in South Carolina, United States

An earthquake struck Charleston, South Carolina, and surrounding areas about 9:50 p.m. local time on August 31, 1886. It caused 60 deaths and $5–6 million in damage to 2,000 buildings in the Southeastern United States. It is one of the most powerful and damaging earthquakes to hit the East Coast of the United States.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 7.0 Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme); 60 people are killed”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Charleston (South Carolina) wird durch ein schweres Erdbeben zu fast 90 Prozent zerstört, etwa 100 Tote fordert die Naturgewalt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un terremoto de 7,3 en Charleston, Carolina del Sur, mata a 60 personas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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