Video: '139 YEARS LATER: The Charleston Earthquake of 1886'

(Tuesday, August 31, 1886, 9:51 p.m. local time) — An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.9–7.3 today devastated Charleston, South Carolina, killing at least 60 people, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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