Tag: US Geological Survey

Gulf Coast shoreline near Alabama’s coastal communities

2011 Offshore Earthquake Was Felt Along the Alabama Coast

James Bullard, February 18, 2011

A 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck about 10 miles off Baldwin County in February 2011, with residents from Orange Beach to Dauphin Island reporting light shaking.

Baldwin County

Waves breaking over a shallow sandbar at the mouth of a coastal bay

A Fairhope Lawyer’s Campaign to Give Dixey Bar Its Proper Name

James Bullard, March 21, 2005

In March 2005, Fairhope attorney David Bagwell asked federal geographers to make Dixey Bar official, tracing its name to a clipper ship lost in a hurricane at the mouth of Mobile Bay in 1860.