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2018 Estimate 38/3 64/18 1870 1,184,109 12.0% All of Georgia's community improvement districts are located in metro Atlanta 2.3 Central Campus. Computer Engineering 6 51/11 68/20 Air Canada An extinct fault line called the Brevard Fault runs roughly parallel to the Chattahoochee River but as its last movements were apparently prehistoric it is considered extinct and not a threat to the region Still minor earthquakes do rattle the area (and all of Georgia) occasionally One notable one was in April 2003 (magnitude 4.6) coming from the northwest its epicenter just across the state line in northeastern Alabama While many people slept through the 5A.M quake it caused a minor panic in others completely unaware of what was happening Similar earthquakes occur in this region called the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone often felt much more widely across the stronger crust of eastern North America as compared to the west Thus the 1886 Charleston South Carolina earthquake was also felt in Atlanta and throughout the Southeast it caused damage as far as central Alabama and West Virginia Two small earthquakes were also felt on the southeast side near Eatonton in early April 2009 the New Madrid Seismic Zone (near the Missouri-Tennessee borders) and the seismic zone producing the 1886 magnitude 7.3 earthquake are still capable of producing moderate or major earthquakes which the entire Atlanta area will feel moderately or even strongly.

; Hartsfield-Jackson area 64/18 77/25 Recent history, Mark O Barton - Known for the July 29 1999 murders of 12 people and wounding of 13 more at two Atlanta day trading firms; The most popular freshwater game fish are trout bream bass and catfish all but the last of which are produced in state hatcheries for restocking Popular saltwater game fish include red drum spotted seatrout flounder and tarpon Porpoises whales shrimp oysters and blue crabs are found inshore and offshore of the Georgia coast. Consistent with national trends the murder rate in Atlanta peaked in 1990 and have declined since From 2000 to 2010 murders in the city declined by nearly 50 percent the years 2009 and 2012 had the lowest numbers of homicides in Atlanta than any year dating back to 1963 but there has been an increase in murders in the city beginning in 2013 the number of murders in Atlanta was 80 in 2009 92 in 2010 88 in 2011 85 in 2012 82 in 2013 93 in 2014 95 in 2015 and 111 in 2016 a significant number of murders have remained unsolved; as of February 2017 51 of the 111 homicides from 2016 remain unsolved.