MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub - MIT NSE Nuclear Information HubOn August 23, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the Piedmont region of the U.S. East Coast near Mineral, Virginia. This was an intraplate earthquake – most earthquakes are interplate, meaning that they occur on fault lines that bound tectonic plates. Intraplate earthquakes tend to be much less frequent and much smaller in magnitude than interplate… On August 23, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck t
