Earthquake Hits Virginia

A 5.8 Earthquake has hit Virginia 87 miles outside Washington DC.
Quake Felt in DC.

Hopefully just a little rumble, Tony?

bb1 wrote:Hopefully just a little rumble, Tony?

Still waiting to see if there is any damage at the epicenter, which was 87 miles outside of DC. where building were evacuated. Not sure what the damage is elsewhere.

Oh, it's on now - it seems to have been over an enormous area, Tony - New York doesn't normally feel earth tremors, does it?

bb1 wrote:Oh, it's on now - it seems to have been over an enormous area, Tony - New York doesn't normally feel earth tremors, does it?

It was virtually on the surface Bonny. It has been felt for 100s of miles.

MAP 5.9 2011/08/23 17:51:03 37.975 -77.969 Depth1.0 6 km ( 4 mi) SSE of Louisa, VA

bb1 wrote:Oh, it's on now - it seems to have been over an enormous area, Tony - New York doesn't normally feel earth tremors, does it?

The president was on the golf course in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. when it struck; they are waiting to hear if he felt it. LL

It was Gaddafi tunnelling out....

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 struck near Washington, D.C., the U.S.Geological Survey said.

The epicenter was in Mineral, Virginia. Did you feel it? Send CNN an iReport.

The quake was felt in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; New York City and on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, where President Barack Obama is vacationing. Cell phone service has been disrupted in New York City part of which has been evacuated.

Traders in the New York Stock Exchange felt the shaking and shouted to each other, "Keep trading!" CNN's business correspondent Alison Kosick reported from the floor at 2:20 p.m. E.T.

"Everybody was told to take the stairs," Wolf Blitzer said, speaking live at 2 p.m. E.T. from CNN's D.C. bureau.

The Pentagon has been evacuated, CNN's Barbara Starr reports. "When the building began shaking rather violently, hundreds of people began streaming out," she said, because many people thought that the building was under attack. Starr was standing in the Pentagon's press office when the roof started to shake.

I love the fact that it struck just as the Judge awarded the prosecution in the Dominic Strauss-Kahn case the right to call it off as they felt there was really not enough evidence to continue, their star witness having been proven to be less than truthful and kept changing her story. LL