Maryland has been rattled by an unexpected earthquake within an ancient fault zone along the US East Coast.
The magnitude 2.5 quake struck at 5.17pm ET on Monday, roughly 16 miles southwest of Baltimore.
Residents near the epicenter, in Riverside and Columbia, reported feeling the quake, but there have been no reports of any injuries or damage.
While earthquakes in Maryland are relatively common, they are rarely strong enough to be felt by people.
It occurred within the Chesapeake Bay Seismic Zone, part of a larger tectonic area along the eastern US called the Central Virginia Seismic Zone.
Earthquakes strong enough for people to notice typically take place within this zone only two to three times a year.
However, a quake over magnitude 2.5 is even more rare within the Chesapeake Bay zone, where quakes of this magnitude historically strike once every decade.
Despite their rarity, local geologist Rebecca Kavage Adams did not believe this event is a warning sign of something larger coming.
The US Geological Survey revealed that a 2.5 magnitude earthquake struck Maryland Monday evening
Hoping the next one takes down the Bay Bridge…
Those Baltimorons need to stay over their side … not destroy the Eastern Shore with
Less farms More buildings
Think that thought through 5:17, you probably have never left the delmarva peninsula. Do you have any clue where the products you need come from? They come from all over country and abroad. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge is the easiest and short route to get to the Eastern Shore. Also farm land wouldn’t be converted to housing if the farmers didn’t sell their land to developers. I grew up here on the Eastern Shore and still live here but have worked in many states and realize there is life west of the Chesapeake Bay.
The Eastern Shore lived very comfortable before the Bay Bridge.
Obviously, you moved here
So GTFO and take her city chit with you chump
Now that you have started name calling 7:05, I was born in Salisbury MD in 1955 Asswipe. I don’t even remember when the first bay bridge was built, and I bet the truth be known, you don’t either. You probably don’t even remember when the second span was built, so how can you say the “Eastern Shore lived very comfortable before the Bay Bridge”? You weren’t even alive then. Pretty much everything you buy comes from across the bay except items from local produce stands and farmers markets. Stop living in the past, it is gone.
Well said 9:42! Also, how would they like to be on that bridge when an earthquake hit?