East Coast earthquake: How does a 5.9 temblor happen in Virginia?- Christian Science Monitor

.Crustal collisions 300 million years ago formed the Appalachian Mountains, which would have grown as tall as today’s Himalayas, explains Steven Jaumé, a geophysicist at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Then, 200 million years ago, the continents began to split, forming the Atlantic Ocean.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0823/East-Coast-earthquake-How-does-a-5.9-temblor-happen-in-Virginia/%28page%29/2

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