A magnitude 3.0 earthquake rattled the Farmville area Tuesday afternoon, with people as far away as Leesburg, Culpeper and ...

An earthquake ... The fault line near Cambridge is known as the Burning Springs-Cambridge fault zone that formed more than 4.6 million years ago. The 31-foot fault extends from West Virginia ...

A magnitude 3.0 earthquake rattled the Farmville area Tuesday afternoon, with people as far away as Leesburg, Culpeper and ...

A magnitude 3.0 earthquake shook the Farmville area on Tuesday afternoon, with reports of tremors reaching as far as Leesburg, Culpeper, and Arlington, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

"They occur when there are stresses that build up in the Earth's crust, and the rocks essentially break along a fault ... when an earthquake of 5.8 magnitude struck near Mineral, Virginia.

There have been two earthquakes recorded across the Central Virginia area in the past week, which might prompt some residents to ask — why does this happen?

Credit: SciTechDaily.com Fault zones are often wide, branching networks rather than narrow lines ... rupture maps, creeping zone width from surveys of slowly shifting monuments along faults and ...