Monday’s quake is listed as the third-highest magnitude earthquake in the two states this century ... “(New Hampshire and Maine) sit on the North American Tectonic Plate.

A 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the Caribbean Sea Saturday evening north of Honduras and southwest of the Cayman Islands.

The strongest earthquake ever recorded in South Carolina — and on the East Coast of the United States — was a devastating 7.3 in Charleston in 1886. That quake killed 60 people and was felt ...