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Jul 16, 2010 by News Gatherer
"I was out of bed. It was a magnitude 3.6 - relatively mild earthquake standards, but stronger than any earthquake rocked the region from others in the past 35 years, the agency said. Geological Survey has said." And was very strong, like a plane flying very low. I had never experienced anything like this, "said Anne Ngunjiri, 30, of Gaithersburg, Maryland. Steve Sweet, a technical director for CNN, said his home in Germantown, Maryland," vibrated gently for about 10 seconds. "I looked the window, he wondered if it was a plane or something, then j 'I checked my BlackBerry and saw a dozen e-mails warning of small earthquakes, "he added. After that happened, I thought it might be an earthquake, and was in bed and hope that there are replicas. . Barack Obama said Friday he did not feel the earthquake that shook parts of the suburbs of Washington in the early morning. Rare earth tremor, which occurred around 5:00 am, was centered about 20 miles northwest of the capital, the U.S. All my neighbors were awakened.
The largest earthquake recorded in Virginia is one of magnitude 6.5 Giles County May 31, 1897. In the past four decades, there were about a dozen or more magnitude 2.0 earthquake 100 km of this recent earthquake. Earthquakes in Maryland and Northern Virginia are rare but not unprecedented. This earthquake was felt in the central parts of Virginia and Maryland. More recently, in most 4.1 degrees shook Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, April 22, 1984. The last earthquake in this region was a magnitude 2.0 event of May 6, 2008 in Annandale, Virginia. On May 5th, 2003 magnitude 3.9 event occurred near Cartersville, midway between Virginia in Charlottesville and Richmond. A series of small earthquakes felt that spans from March to July 1993 are produced by Columbia, Maryland, 33 km (20 miles), July 16, 2010 earthquake. The largest of this series was of magnitude 2.7 in March 1993. The earthquake caused minor damage to Conestoga Pennsylvania, Lampeter, Mount Nebo and New Providence and was felt in West Virginia, Connecticut.
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