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Earthquake Wash DC VA Maryland - Pentagon Evacuated, Mag 5.8
FR / WTOP Washington, DC ^ | 2011-08-23

Posted on 08/23/2011 11:03:24 AM PDT by rabscuttle385

Pentagon evacuated after possible earthquake in Washington area. Reuters reporting 5.8 magnitude. WTOP will have more information as it becomes available.

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Felt in Reston, VA, Ashburn, VA, Tyson's Corner.

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in metro DC and it shook the house pretty good, the phones are out and barely have cell service. The stuff fell off the walls and they just cleared the pentagon.


21 posted on 08/23/2011 11:08:12 AM PDT by newnhdad
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To: rabscuttle385

felt here in Raleigh, NC, everyone in office stood up....


22 posted on 08/23/2011 11:08:27 AM PDT by FreedomProtector
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To: rabscuttle385

Felt my apartment building shaking here in New York City.


23 posted on 08/23/2011 11:08:30 AM PDT by GoodDay (Palin for POTUS 2012)
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To: rabscuttle385

Reuters says it has been updated to an 6.0 earthquake and Megyn Kelly reported it happened in Mineral, VA


24 posted on 08/23/2011 11:08:42 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: rabscuttle385

Felt pretty dern big in Delaware!


25 posted on 08/23/2011 11:08:42 AM PDT by Woodstock (: > Civil Air Patrol - CAP Mom)
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To: Lazlo in PA

SouthWestern PA, we felt a quick snap out of it..My son, a bit further north heard “rumbling” for a short spell, then business as usual.


26 posted on 08/23/2011 11:08:49 AM PDT by Michael Barnes (Obamaa+ Downgrade)
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To: tcrlaf

I wonder how long it’s going to take the media to notice there’s a nuclear power plant and a huge lake and dam only 10 miles away from the revised USGS epicenter?


27 posted on 08/23/2011 11:09:04 AM PDT by Strategerist (There is only so much stupidity one man can prevent - Andrew Marshall)
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To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity

I used to live in Orange, VA which is just north of Mineral. This region is not an earthquake zone and this isn’t something that most people there would know how to deal with. This has the potential to be bad.


28 posted on 08/23/2011 11:09:17 AM PDT by Avalon Hussar
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To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity

EXTREMELY SHALLOW, less than 1km, or around a 1/2 mile deep.


29 posted on 08/23/2011 11:09:50 AM PDT by tcrlaf (PREFRONTAL LOBOTOMISTS FOR OBAMA2012!)
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To: rabscuttle385

And look at this rather unusual cluster of earthquakes in Colorado in the last few days:

http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html


30 posted on 08/23/2011 11:09:50 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Yep, welcome to our world, this is the norm here in SoCal..but thankfully we haven’t had one of these big ones in a while, knock on wood


31 posted on 08/23/2011 11:10:01 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: rabscuttle385

Felt in so jersey about 15 mi SE of philly


32 posted on 08/23/2011 11:10:03 AM PDT by JoyjoyfromNJ (everything written by me on FR is my personal opinion & does not represent my employer)
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To: kcvl

LOL. Scott Pelley of CBS News just asssured the viewers it was a “mild earthquake”.
I think 6.2 qualifies as a bit more than mild.

Reporter Chip Reid at the Pentagon describes ten seconds of violent shaking.


33 posted on 08/23/2011 11:10:23 AM PDT by Deo volente (God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
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To: rabscuttle385

I’m in Columbia, Md. I thought my house was going to collapse. Wife, daughter and I ran out into the yard and saw trees and light poles swaying. Very scary. My first earthquake. The MidAtlantic region just doesn’t get earthquakes.


34 posted on 08/23/2011 11:10:28 AM PDT by StormEye
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To: rabscuttle385

Anyone said “earthquakes in divers places” yet?

Look up, for your redemption is nigh.


35 posted on 08/23/2011 11:10:36 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Freddd

I’m in Ohio next to WV. I totally missed it. I think you are all pulling my leg.


36 posted on 08/23/2011 11:10:48 AM PDT by RadiationRomeo (Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
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To: rabscuttle385

Just outside Boston MA,on the third floor, and i felt it here as a gentle rocking. No one was doing laundry, which makes this 110+ dwelling shake a bit, and this was a slower rocking.

But we need some shaking up in this country. Beginning in the seat of power.

“See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 25 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 26 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 27 “ (Hebrews 12:25-27)


37 posted on 08/23/2011 11:11:08 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out," Acts 3:19)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Lived out there for 20 yrs myself. This was a 1.5 to 1.8 at best in my area. Just north of Philly.

It’s almost funny watching these people panic as they are.

Upgraded to 6.0 in the virginia area now.


38 posted on 08/23/2011 11:11:20 AM PDT by Sparky21555
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To: rabscuttle385
Pentagon evacuated after possible earthquake in Washington area. Reuters reporting 5.8 magnitude.

a "possible" earthquake? Is this where we are with political correctness?

39 posted on 08/23/2011 11:11:35 AM PDT by oldbrowser (They're socialists don't call them liberals)
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To: rabscuttle385

Dumfries, VA.

OK, checked off the “Experienced an earthquake” box. Don’t need to do that again - Florida native.


40 posted on 08/23/2011 11:11:45 AM PDT by AF_Blue ("America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad ass speed." - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936)
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