East Coast Feels Earth Move
(August 24, 2011)A rare East Coast earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 shuttered federal government buildings and schools throughout Washington, sent scores of D.C. residents to shelters, and even put a crack in the Washington Monument. At least three of the four top stones on the central tower of the Washington National also fell off. The quake’s epicenter was in tiny Mineral, Va., but effects were felt as far away as the Empire State Building.
