Florida gets ready for... Earthquake season??

A remarkably large earthquake has just occurred off the coast of Florida. The 6.0 magnitude indicates that this was a serious earthquake, but located far offshore. Nonetheless, it was powerful enough to be felt fairly strongly in several states, including Florida, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas.

This area is not known for earthquakes. There have only been seven small earthquakes none as large as M4.0. This is the strongest felt earthquake in Florida in 120 years. There was a magnitude 5.2 earthquake back in February, a bit closer to Louisiana, and this might be related. Still, the faults in this region aren't well known, and this is a very rare occurrence.