While earthquakes do occur on occasion in Florida, what you felt last night wasn't an earthquake, at least according to the U ...

The USGS records dating back to 1900 show only one real earthquake offshore in the Atlantic within 400 miles of the state's coast, a magnitude 3.2 in the Bahamas – about 75 miles east of Florida ...

Earthquake off the Florida coast on a launch night sends seismologists searching for answers, while U.S. Navy responds it wasn't them this time.

A tremor reported on July 16 off the coast of Florida was not an earthquake, but a Naval test explosion. The U.S. Geological Survey now lists the event on its earthquake hazards page as an ...

According to the University of Florida, geologists agree the largest earthquake ever recorded in Florida happened on Jan. 12, 1879, about 11:45 p.m. It measured 4.4. "A pair of 30-second tremors ...

An earthquake struck off the coast of Florida on Saturday (July 16), a rare event in a relatively tectonically peaceful region. The 3.7-magnitude quake had an epicenter that was 104 miles (168 ...

There have been earthquakes in Florida, with most clustered in the northwestern Panhandle. A 4.4-magnitude quake hit the middle of the state in 1879.

USGS map of the 4.0 magnitude earthquake on Feb. 7, 2024 (USGS). In fact, Florida is one of only four states that had no earthquakes between 1975 and 1995.. However, that hasn’t stopped ...

There have been earthquakes in Florida, with most clustered in the northwestern Panhandle. A 4.4-magnitude quake hit the middle of the state in 1879.

A rare 4.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded off Florida's coast Wednesday night. The earthquake was felt from St. Augustine south to Vero Beach.

While earthquakes are rare in and around Florida, they do happen. One occurred Feb. 7, 2024, off Cape Canaveral. Over 200 others were reported that day.

In 2019, for instance, Florida recorded at least nine small earthquakes, mostly in the 2.0 magnitude range. In 2020, a 4.4 magnitude earthquake was recorded in Escambia County.