Authorities in the District and Montgomery and Arlington counties said there were no early reports of damage. Still, many residents were dialing 911 to report the rumbling.
It has to be considering there was a flippin' earthquake in Maryland this morning. (Sidenote: I slept right through it). As you probably guessed, earthquakes, even ones as mild as this one, don't happen very often.
The earthquake rocked Canada around 1:40 p.m. Wednesday, shaking many parts of the East Coast. It was even felt 700 miles away in Towson, where many office workers say their day was rudely interrupted.
They suspected furniture movers or high winds, but the cause was more unusual: an earthquake. Had they known, Lancaster said, the group of ITT Corp. engineers "probably would have run out of the building."
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