What fault is located up nordeast?
OY!
Reaction to events in DC?
THIS IS AS CLOSE AS I’VE GOTTEN TO THAT ON DOGPILE.COM SO FAR:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/ohio/hazards.php
Here's an article from 2000 that reports about faults in Eastern NY:
Here's one section of it:
"Faults on major cities?
Jacobi and colleague John Fountain, along with a host of students, studied a small, remote portion of a long, flat plateau that stretches from Ohio to upstate New York and into Canada. From the ground, the plateau appears relatively featureless. Geologists call it pancake geology.
From space, though, the studied patch of the rocky region is revealed to be riddled with faults, and Jacobi says the finding may challenge assumptions of seismic safety for Cleveland, Buffalo and Toronto -- all of which sit on the same plateau.
"All those cities were assumed to have no faults," Jacobi said in a telephone interview. "And what we're suggesting is that there are more faults than we suspected."
Its been downgraded to a 5.0 ONTARIO-QUEBEC BORDER REGION, CANADA