16. How did the earthquake of 1886, and other natural disasters affect SC agriculture?

It claimed lives and property, and instigated fear in humans as if that time.

Explanation:

late August 1886, Charleston, S.C., was in the grip of a heat wave. It was so hot during the day that many offices were closed and events were postponed until later in the evening when temperatures had cooled. So, when powerful seismic waves rippled across the city at 9:51 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug..

A major shock, occurred August 31, 1886 at approximately 9:50 p.m. and lasted less than one minute, but resulted in about sixty deaths and extensive damage to the city of Charleston.

What makes South Carolina earthquakes somewhat unusual, though, is that the state does not sit near any major fault lines, or boundaries between tectonic plates in the earth's outer layer, the way the western United States does. The state does, however, experience what are known as intraplate earthquakes

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