WASHINGTON, March 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey issued the following abstract of an article on January 22, 2025, entitled "Haunted Summerville: Ghostly lights or earthquake lights?" Here are excerpts: * * * Among the colorful local lore in the Charleston, South Carolina, area, are a number of ghost stories, shared not only over campfires but also in published books. Among the most well-known of the stories is the tale of the Summerville Light. Local lore  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey issued the following abstract of an article on January 10, 2025, entitled "Reply to, "Comment on 'The 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake: Relic railroad offset reveals rupture,' by Roger Bilham and Susan E. Hough"." Here are excerpts: * * * We welcome this opportunity to respond to Pratt et al. (2024) (hereinafter P24). Bilham and Hough (2023) proposed a "first-cut" elastic deformation model for th  more