Tuesday, August 23, 2011

MAGNITUDE 5.8 QUAKE HITS VIRGINIA: One in Colorado too

Earthquake hits Virginia and is felt up and down the East Coast.

Fox News: DEVELOPING: A Magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck Virginia Tuesday afternoon, sending tremors along the East Coast of the United States.
The U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and other buildings were evacuated. Pictures in the Capitol building reportedly fell from the walls.


Colorado gets hit with 5.3 Earthquake.

The New York Times: DENVER — The largest natural earthquake in Colorado in more than a century struck Monday night in the state’s southeast corner, but there had been no reports of damage or injuries.

The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 and centered about nine miles from the city of Trinidad, hit at 11:46 p.m. local time. It was felt as far away as Greeley, about 350 miles north, and into Kansas and New Mexico, said Julie Dutton, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.


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