NEWS BRIEF Florida is home to several disasters: the hurricanes, the sinkholes that swallow homes, and the #Floridaman hashtag. It is not known for earthquakes. So when a magnitude-3.7 temblor struck 100 miles off the coast of Daytona Beach over the weekend, news outlets reported the phenomenon with headlines like this one from FOX4: Earthquakes in Florida?
But not so fast.
The U.S. Geological Survey picked up the rumbling around 4 p.m. Saturday. The shaking didn’t cause any damage––no earthquake has in Florida since 1879––and the Associated Press, local outlets, and Weather.com all quickly noted how peculiar it was. Some outlets even referenced another earthquake that hit in June, with the exact same magnitude, in almost the same spot. Was this the work of a dormant fault shaking to life?
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