Antigua and Barbuda (13) 1860 9,554 271.5% 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; . Atlanta Hawks Basketball NBA State Farm Arena (18,100) 1946 1968 1 (1958) Fulton County's budget of $1.2 billion funds an array of resident services With 34 branches the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System is one of the largest library systems in Georgia Human services programs include one of the strongest senior center networks in metro Atlanta including four multi-purpose senior facilities the county also provides funding to nonprofits with FRESH and Human Services grants. With white Democrats having regained power in the state legislature they passed a poll tax in 1877 which disenfranchised many poor blacks and whites preventing them from registering in 1908 the state established a white primary; with the only competitive contests within the Democratic Party it was another way to exclude blacks from politics They constituted 46.7% of the state's population in 1900 but the proportion of Georgia's population that was African American dropped thereafter to 28% primarily due to tens of thousands leaving the state during the Great Migration According to the Equal Justice Institute's 2015 report on lynching in the United States (1877-1950) Georgia had 531 deaths the second-highest total of these extralegal executions of any state in the South the overwhelming number of victims were black and male Political disfranchisement persisted through the mid-1960s until after Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 1 History Atlanta Georgia business directory Kennesaw pop 29,783!
. . N 1 Bank of America Plaza 1,023 (312) 55 1992 63rd-tallest building in the world 10th-tallest in the U.S Has been the tallest building in Atlanta Georgia and the Southern United States since 1992 Tallest building in any U.S state capital. . Year Total Attendance Game Average Stadium Capacity by % Major League Rank by # Major League Rank by %, J District 2 Bob Ellis Republican, Parks and recreation Georgia 120.svg State Route 120 The Dukes of Hazzard a 1980s TV show was set in the fictional Hazzard County Georgia the first five episodes were shot on location in Conyers and Covington Georgia as well as some locations in Atlanta Production was then moved to Burbank California.[citation needed].
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