Earthquakes in North Carolina? It’s more likely than you think.
With the recent influx of earthquake activity in the United States, especially in Louisiana, on the evening of August 31, 1886, at 9:50 p.m., the largest earthquake ever recorded on the East Coast occurred in Charleston, South Carolina. It destroyed homes and other property, leaving as many as 150 dead just in Charleston, and the earthquake even cracked chimneys and plaster walls across areas of North Carolina.
Measurements from the modern Richter scale recorded the earthquake at 6.6-7.3. Across the state, in Asheville, the bell in city hall tolled loudly as the earthquake rumbled through its destruction…