A 7.0 magnitude earthquake impacts greek island off western seaboard from 10 p.m. EDT Monday through 5 a.m. Tuesday.
More than 1,000 quakes have been felt around the country since midnight GMT.
People near Seattle reported hearing a «booming» noise from the Pacific Northwest, with dozens of reports of building shaking.
천안 출장 안마Trouble was reported at a Pennsylvania elementary school, where about a dozen students were trapped because of a hole in the ceiling, school officials told NBC Philadelphia.
In California, the US Geological Survey said a magnitude 4.4 earthquake centered about 5km west of Stockton triggered a mudslide that dumped as much as 17,000 cubic metres (3.7 cubic miles) of sludge on the ocean bed, sending large mud flows up to several km (1.2 miles) into the sea.
The agency said it was «extremely concerned that people, including children, may be hurt or injured from the mudflows».
«The mudflows are so huge it’s difficult for the USGS, the state authorities and the insurance companies to put on protective equipment,» a local television news channel reported on Monday.
No tsunami warning was in effect for parts of western America, USGS said, with the most significant events moving across coastlines into the central US and down through the north, including California and Florida, where the strongest vibrations felt on Monday were up to 1.6 magnitude, according to USGS seismologists.
Meanwhile in Europe, a strong tremo카지노 게임r was felt near the northern border of Denmark, where it caused a tremor alert there.
It was later determined to be a 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide were all hit by waves of up to 9 metres (33 feet) over the weekend.
The US Geological Survey was investigating the magnitude of the earthquake — the strongest it had ever recorded in Washington state and was more than four times bigger than the largest earthquake to hit North America.
Scientists said the events appeared to come after heavy water from a영주출장안마 deep well — possibly underground in Oregon — had started leaking out from beneath the ocean bed and was about to burst.