On August 17, 1959 an earthquake measured 7.3-7.5 on the Richter scale at Yellowstone National Park. The tragic event caused over 28 deaths and $11 million in damage between Wyoming and Montana communities.
Early this morning, Napa, CA rolled through a 6.0 earthquake. I rode through the last major earthquake in that area in 1989. Wyoming has had our fair share.
According to the USGS, an earthquake that measured 4.0 on the Richter Scale rattled the western parts of Wyoming at about 11:30 PM last night. The epicenter was described as being 14 miles WNW of Afton, Wyoming and was approximately 3 miles deep...
As he video blogs about Oklahoma State’s football win over Kansas City, YouTuber Elmore Drive reacts with dismay to one of the earthquakes that rattled Oklahoma over the weekend.
A series of earthquakes and aftershocks — some felt as far away as Wisconsin — shook Oklahoma this weekend, startling people more accustomed to tornadoes than temblors.
Early Saturday, a magnitude 4.7 earthquake affected areas from Texas to Missouri, followed by a 5.6 quake later that night — Oklahoma’s strongest in history — and more than 10 aftershocks.
Not only was last week’s East Coast earthquake nice enough not to seriously injure anybody, but its rumbling effects may have actually helped a deaf man hear again.