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Preliminary 3.3 magnitude quake jolts South Carolina -
COLUMBIA, S.C. – A relatively rare East Coast earthquake centered just northeast of South Carolina’s capital city jolted awake large numbers of state residents early Monday, rocking the Southern state at a preliminary 3.3 magnitude, authorities said.
There were no immediate reports of any damages or injuries.
The pre-dawn temblor lasted only seconds but a number of people took to social media to describe being shaken from sleep when the quake hit shortly after 1:30 a.m. A seismic analyst monitoring the quake for the USGS Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center in Colorado, called it the latest in a series of shakes in recent months but stronger than usual.
“There’s definitely been a ‘swarm’ here over the past several months. It’s not like a swarm like after a large seismic event but we have had a number of them in recent months,“ geophysicist Amy Vaughan with the 24-hour monitoring service told The Associated Press by phone.
Vaughan said the 3.3 magnitude is an early assessment and could change, adding the quake occurred about 1.9 miles (3.1 kilometers) below the earth’s surface near the community of Elgin. The epicenter was about 21 miles (3 kilometers) northeast of downtown Columbia, the capital city.
Those awakened reported feeling the earth shaking for several seconds and some even described what sounded like a heavy truck moving nearby. Vaughan said only an hour afterward she had reports pouring in to the quake monitoring center.
“I have not heard of any damage reports so far but have had over a thousand … reports,” she said. “If people were sleeping they obviously would have been woken up and things might have been rattling off shelves or countertops but not the kind of shaking or intensity to cause damage of any significance.”
Still, she called it “alarming for sure" and said some lesser aftershocks were possible in coming days or weeks. She noted there were quakes of a preliminary 2.0 or higher in April and March and others going back little more than four months in the region — and a 3.3 quake last December. …
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On this day, 9 May 1914, suffragettes battled police who were attempting to raid a meeting on women’s rights in Glasgow, Scotland. Police trying to storm the hall found themselves hit with a barrage of flying flowerpots, tables and chairs, while audience members and jiu-jitsu-trained bodyguards armed themselves with clubs, batons, poles, planks of wood and even a revolver loaded with blanks and fought off officers. As they attempted to arrest the speakers, they were also slowed by barbed wire which had been hidden in the garlands bedecking the stage.
Pictured: a demonstration of suffragette jiu-jitsu
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