ShareNelson County, Virginia We were in a dead sleep here at NCL early Thursday morning when another 4.5 magnitude aftershock woke us. This one lasted longer than the original one we experienced on Tuesday, though the intensity was not as great. “Woke me up out of a dead sleep in Lovingston,” Joanie Saunders told us [...]
ShareTommy and I had just wrapped up a business lunch meeting at Basic Necessities in Nellysford when we felt and heard a rumble which lasted for at least 20 seconds. A quick survey on our Facebook feeds showed simultaneous reports of tremors up along the east coast from as far north as New Hampshire. According [...]
ShareNelson County, Virginia People in Nelson and other nearby parts of Central Virginia got a pre-Thanksgiving surprise Wednesday evening as a 2.7 magnitude minor earthquake shook parts of Southern and Eastern Nelson County and points to the south in Amherst and Appomattox. The US Geological Survey shows the quake hitting at 5:24 PM eastern time [...]
ShareNelson/Amherst County, Virginia Update 8PM : USGS Data here giving center of quake, etc. Thanks to ABC-13 WSET in Lynchburg for this info. Their story reads: A small earth quake has been reported in Nelson and Amherst Counties. Our newsroom phone has been ringing off the hook with people saying they felt earth shook and [...]
