564:. The town's manager, Ryan Wilmoth, said there were "very minor injuries" but did not specify the number of people injured. There was at least one confirmed injury. Many homes and business infrastructure were damaged; most were material damage that left the structure's integrity unaffected. A majority of structural damage was observed in ureinforced brick, masonry and concrete elements. Within a week of the earthquake, there were 60 cases of serious damage and 465 minor damage reports. Seventeen buildings were listed as unsafe for use and five were eventually demolished. At least 19 people lost their homes. Carpark fracturing and smashed ceramics were reported at Scott's Landscaping Nursery and Farms while at the Kathy Shore Tree Nursery, its owner estimated the repair cost to be several hundred. The Alleghany County administration office was also damaged. The shock also damaged a
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Ground fracturing was discovered south and southeast of Sparta while none were observed in the immediate epicenter area. A surface rupture extending over 1.5 mi (2.4 km) appeared southeast of the town. The earthquake ruptured along this previously unmapped fault within the upper bedrock,
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issued $ 1.17 million in loans. As the earthquake and its aftermath did not meet FEMA's disaster assistance criteria, the legislature of North
Carolina allocated $ 24 million for relief. The project and its funding established a three-year project, the Earthquake Recovery Program, operated by the
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of 5.1, occurring at a shallow depth of 4.7 miles (7.6 km). Rupture occurred on the previously unmapped Little River Fault. A surface rupture was documented following the earthquake; the first of its kind in the
Eastern United States. Shaking was reported in parts of the
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Figueiredo, Paula; Hill, Jesse; Merschat, Arthur; Scheip, Corey; Stewart, Kevin; Owen, Lewis; Wooten, Richard; Carter, Mark; Szymanski, Eric; Horton, Stephen; Wegmann, Karl; Bohnenstiehl, DelWayne; Thompson, Gary; Witt, Anne; Cattanach, Bart (March 2022).
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as officials did not raise any request on the site. Scammers took advantage of the damage, impersonating construction workers and charging people up to $ 500 for repairs only to never provide the services. Governor of North
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2.9 event that struck two days after the mainshock. There were 20 recorded aftershocks by August 28. In Sparta, the earthquake was assigned a maximum
Modified Mercalli intensity of VI–VII and its peak ground acceleration exceeded 0.2
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dubbed the Little River Fault. Trenching of the Little River Fault indicate it is a thrust fault. This west-northwest–east-southeast striking fault is located within the local
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Preliminary Map of the
Surface Rupture From the August 9, 2020, Mw 5.1 Earthquake Near Sparta, North Carolina—The Little River Fault and Other Possible Coseismic Features
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from the ground, and toppled or destroyed several chimneys. Parts of
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of magnitudes between 2.1 and 2.6 were recorded beginning about 25 hours prior to the earthquake. The
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Neves, Miguel; Chuang, Lindsay Y.; Li, Wei; Peng, Zhigang; Figueiredo, Paula M.; Ni, Sidao (2024).
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The mainshock source area was in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the
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1408:"One Year After Sparta Earthquake, Recovery is Well Underway"
1185:"Building Safety Assessments Following the Sparta Earthquake"
1272:"Sparta earthquake: 1 year since 5.1 magnitude earthshaker"
1099:"What the Sparta Earthquake Tells Us About Shallow Quakes"
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McLaughlin, Eliott C.; Johnston, Chuck (August 9, 2020).
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which led to aggressive erosion by rivers and streams.
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724:Price, Mark; Lindstrom, Lauren (August 9, 2020).
894:"M 5.1 - 4 km SE of Sparta, North Carolina 2020"
820:"Geology of Great Smoky Mountains National Park"
1156:"North Carolina and Haiti earthquakes compared"
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1335:. ABC11 Raleigh-Durham. August 11, 2020
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1002:"Residents Still Cleaning Up In Sparta"
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798:"The Mountains That Froze the World"
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1128:Kabba, Rasheeda (August 11, 2020).
752:(Data base), U.S. Geological Survey
562:COVID-19 pandemic in North Carolina
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2562:Alleghany County, North Carolina
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1406:Evans, Marcia (August 9, 2021).
1270:Allman, Megan (August 9, 2021).
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645:List of earthquakes in 2020
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2084:1957 Andreanof Islands
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1035:The Charlotte Observer
967:– via GSA Today.
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