Occasional large ones have also occurred, however, the USGS said. Virginia has three seismic zones, or places where earthquakes occur, and one is in the central part of the state, where Tuesday ...

A small earthquake shook a Virginia county late on Tuesday afternoon ... "The largest damaging earthquake (magnitude 5.8) in the seismic zone occurred in 2011," officials added.

A 2.8 magnitude earthquake rattled parts of Virginia on Tuesday, around 5:30 p.m. The quake occurred a little over a half mile northeast of Wyndham, at a depth of 0.1 kilometers. Over 1,300 ...

In addition to the Virginia earthquake, there were nine tremors in the area immediately around Cokedale, Colorado, near the border of New Mexico, the largest of which was a 5.3 magnitude.