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Article: Unusual Gulf quake shakes up our world: In the middle of the hurricane season, Central Florida feels the effects of a magnitude-6 temblor.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- September 11, 2006
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Byline: Jeannette Rivera-Lyles and Sandra Pedicini
Sep. 11--Central Floridians have a new natural disaster to contend with: earthquakes. A strong and unusual earthquake Sunday morning in the Gulf of Mexico sent ripples through Central Florida. It was felt south in Miami and north as far as coastal Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and northern Georgia. The U.S. Geological Survey, which monitors seismic activity, recorded the earthquake at 10:56 a.m., about 260 miles southwest of Tampa. It reached magnitude 6, the strongest and most widely felt of only about a dozen temblors that have been recorded in the Gulf in 30 years. No injuries or property ...