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The strongest and most destructive earthquake in state history was the 1931 Valentine earthquake, [ 3]: 20 which had an estimated magnitude of m b 5.6–6.4. [ 4]: 1171 The second strongest earthquake in Texas history also occurred in West Texas, registering as a magnitude 5.7 tremor near Alpine in 1995. [ 1]
Falls City is a city in Karnes County, Texas, United States. The population was 514 at the 2020 census. [ 4] Falls City is near the location of a uranium tailings disposal cell, completed in 1994 under the terms of the 1978 Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act. [ 5] The early settlers, predominantly Polish Catholics, founded the Holy ...
Fault or Balcones Fault Zone is an area of largely normal faulting [ 1] in the U.S. state of Texas that runs roughly from the southwest part of the state near Del Rio to the north-central region near Dallas [ 2] along Interstate 35. The Balcones Fault zone is made up of many smaller features, including normal faults, grabens, and horsts. [ 3]
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The quake is the second 5.0 magnitude or greater earthquake to occur in the area in just over a year. Another large earthquake shows seismic activity increases in West Texas, experts say Skip to ...
The Railroad Commission Texas, which regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, is investigating a 5.4-magnitude earthquake that rocked communities in West Texas last Wednesday, The Texas ...
The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid Fault Line, is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the Southern and Midwestern United States, stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri . The New Madrid fault system was responsible for the ...
An earthquake rattled West Texas at 10:38 p.m. on Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake's epicenter was in the area of Hermleigh, Texas, about 200 miles west of Fort Worth ...