The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said an overnight earthquake was reported in North Carolina on Friday. The USGS ...

An earthquake was recorded early Sunday morning in a part of South Carolina where no tremors had been previously recorded this year. A 1.6 magnitude earthquake rumbled in the Upstate area ...

A 2.0-magnitude earthquake, recorded around 7:45 a.m. Saturday, shook, for the second time this year, near Elgin, according to the South Carolina Emergency Management Division. It happened at ...

South Carolina has uncharacteristically high seismic activity. The Palmetto State, which lies on the interior part of the North American tectonic plate, has experienced hundreds of earthquakes in ...

Susan Hough, a seismologist at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), was scouring archives for information about a 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck Charleston, South Carolina, in 1886. Her ...

Decades later, the 1886 Charleston, South Carolina earthquake killed nearly 60 people and devastated the city. The effects of that quake were felt here in Georgia, as well.

Officials said the earthquake was 3.5 miles south southwest of Marshville, NC, 9.7 miles east southeast of Monroe and 74.5 miles north northeast of Columbia, SC.