Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
MINERAL, Va. (AP) - One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded on the East Coast shook buildings and rattled nerves from South Carolina to New England on Tuesday and forced the evacuations of parts of the Capitol, White House and Pentagon.
There were no immediate reports of deaths, but fire officials in Washington said there were at least some injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake registered magnitude 5.8 and was centered 40 miles northwest of Richmond, Va.
Two nuclear reactors at the North Anna Power Station, in the same county as the epicenter, were automatically taken off line by safety systems, said Roger Hannah, a spokesman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The earthquake came less than three weeks before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and in both Washington and New York it immediately triggered fears of something more sinister than a natural disaster.
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Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
Today the MSM has a *Newsgasm*. A large part of the east coast of the USA was rocked by a massive earthquake today, it appears that the damage was very devastating and wide spread, as witnessed in the picture below!
At the Pentagon, a low rumbling built until the building itself was shaking, and people ran into the corridors of the complex. The shaking continued there, to shouts of “Evacuate! Evacuate!”
The Park Service closed all monuments and memorials on the National Mall, and ceiling tiles fell at Reagan National Airport outside Washington. All flights there were put on hold.
In lower Manhattan, the 26-story federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, blocks from ground zero of the Sept. 11 attacks, began swaying, and hundreds of people streamed out of the building.
Workers in the Empire State Building spilled into the streets, some having descended dozens of flights of stairs.
“I thought we’d been hit by an airplane,” said one worker, Marty Weisner.
Luckily this was NOT a repeat of a 9-11 type disaster that many in New York and at the Pentagon had feared when the quake hit.
There were reports that Pres. Obama was about to *tee off* at a golf course on Martha’s Vineyard and that his golf game was interrupted briefly.
Political pundits are already saying that the President will speak to the American people concerning the quake soon, and that he will immediately call it a ‘stroke of very bad luck for the nations finances’ and will blame the quake on former President George W. Bush.
Shaking was felt as far south as Charleston, S.C., and as far north and east as Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., where President Barack Obama is taking summer vacation and was starting a round of golf when the quake struck at 1:51 p.m. EDT.
A magnitude of 5.8 would make the quake among the most powerful to strike the eastern United States. In 1897, a magnitude-5.9 quake was recorded at Giles County, Va., the largest on record in that state.
Speculation has begun that this heretofore unknown quake line will be dubbed *The Bush Fault*. 
And because someone just HAD to do it…
Rumor has it that immediately after the east coast quake a *Heavenly voice* voice was heard to say, “Damn… I missed… ”
Obami is sure having a run of bad luck. FORE!!!!
Barack Hussein Obama’s THEME SONG!
Fred, even out here in DeeeeeP South Texas we felt the shake. Course, that could have been Two Ton Thomas jogging in the neighborhood.
Earthquake Punditry:
White House press release: “Earthquake epicenter was situated at the convergence of Bush’s Fault, Congress’ Fault, Tea Party’s Fault, and It’s-not-my Fault.”
BREAKING NEWS: “Seismologists have confirmed that it WAS an earthquake and NOT the 14.6 trillion dollar check bouncing on the East Coast.
VA QUAKE BREAKING NEWS: The USGS has determined that the epicenter of the earthquake was in a cemetery just outside of DC. The cause appears to be all of our founding fathers rolling over in their graves.
Oh my! You should be ashamed of yourself, Fred. I was already coughing and now I am laughing so hard, I am coughing more. You about killed me with this one.
I can’t be a grumpy old fart ALL the time…
I live in Fornicalia.
My life revolves around actual earthquakes.
What the east coast experienced was NOTHING.
BZ
I beg to differ Sir, it WAS something…
It was a moment of sheer hilarity!!
The Great East Coast Quake becomes grist for the same fear-mongering media mill as the re-occurring stories of “Killer Cold” (Winter) and “Killer Heat” (Summer).
Typical of the DC area, the earthquake caused traffic gridlock and cell phone gridlock.
Quite an unnerving event for me as I was in an office building at the time and conducting business with my insurance company. For a long few seconds, I thought that the building was going to come down on my head — I was on the lowest floor. Most who evacuated the building just stood on the porch of the building, but I headed out and further away.
Mr. AOW was home alone, but as one who lived in California for many years, he was not alarmed.
My lawn chairs remained upright, but my ceramic giraffe fell to the floor and was broken. Lots of other items were shuffled or tossed to the floor but not broken.
Good stuff Fred, thanks for the picture of the damage.
I live in Mexifornia too, merely miles from the San Andreas fault. Earthquakes are a reality here, just another part of the fun of living in Mexifornia. I caught some of the MSM hysteria while I was working out at the gym and couldn’t stop laughing.
What a bunch of pathetic wussies. JFC, man up, it was just a small quake.