South Carolina has high seismic activity despite not being on a plate boundary. Scientists still don't know the answer for ...

For decades, these mysterious lights have haunted the residents of Summerville, South Carolina, appearing mysteriously near an abandoned railway track. Local legends tell of a grieving woman searching ...

The mystery of ‘ghost lanterns’ haunting a town in South Carolina might have been solved. The glowing balls of light have ...

to identify the fault responsible for the famous 1886 Charleston, South Carolina earthquake. Summerville, about 25 miles northwest of Charleston, was part of their study region. Hough began to ...

While studying the area's seismology, she discovered a book that went into detail about an earthquake of 6.6 to 7.3 magnitude that occurred on September 1, 1886 in nearby Charleston. According ...

The Tuesday evening earthquake rattled middle Georgia roughly 10 hours after a 2.6 earthquake in northwest Georgia in Chattooga County. Although it was a shallow earthquake, there were a few reports ...

Susan Hough, a seismologist at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), was scouring archives for information about a 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck Charleston, South Carolina, in 1886. Her ...