MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WBOY) — West Virginians may not typically feel earthquakes, but special equipment across the Mountain State is actively detecting what’s going on underneath the earth’s crust in real time, including the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia last week that prompted tsunami warnings across the western U.S.

Nestled on a hill on Mont Chateau in Morgantown stands the only permanent seismic station in West Virginia, detecting even the smallest movements beneath the earth’s crust, all so scientists can better understand the world under our feet.

"This data helps us understand how the rocks and the tectonic plates are moving and in what motion and what direction they’re moving, and maybe the type of deformation that’s happening below the surface, so, and we have a pretty good ide

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