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Though many were extricated from the wreckage alive, official estimates placed the final death toll at 10,000 people. Journalists and other eyewitnesses, however, speculated that several times that number had perished.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
PREVIOUS EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO At least 19 earthquakes are known to have occurred in the northeastern Ohio counties of Ashtabula (1), Cuyahoga (7), Lake (4), Lorain (I), Portage (3), and Summit (3) prior to the 1986 Lake County event.
Jan 31, 2020 · CLEVELAND — Just before 11:47 a.m. on this day in 1986, a 4.96 magnitude earthquake, commonly rounded up to 5.0, happened about 24 miles east of Cleveland in southern Lake County, just north of...
Feb 1, 1986 · The earthquake was felt in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, New York state, Wisconsin, Washington, D.C., and parts of Ontario, Canada. There were even...
Thirteen aftershocks were detected as of 15 April, with six occurring within the first 8 days. Two of the aftershocks were felt. Magnitudes for the aftershocks ranged from about 0.5 to 2.5.
Aug 20, 2021 · A decade of study into the Virginia earthquake that damaged D.C. and reverberated up and down the Atlantic coast in 2011 has shed light on rare, but risk-laden, seismicity in eastern North...
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Earthquake Information for Ohio. There are 107 earthquake incidents in Ohio on record since 1931. The state averages 1 earthquakes per year. The largest earthquake on record for Ohio occurred on 01/31/1986, with a depth of 10.0 miles and a magnitude of 5.0 on the Richter scale in Geauga County, OH.
