Monday Marks 10th Anniversary Of 2011 Earthquake

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Ten years agone today, the Earth moved and grabbed the attraction of millions of radical successful Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic. A uncommon 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook Maryland connected Aug. 23, 2011.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was fractional a mile deep. Shaking was felt astatine the White House and each implicit the East Coast, arsenic acold southbound arsenic Chapel Hill, N.C. People besides felt it successful New York and Rhode Island.

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Many radical who fled downtown high-rises were trying to scope friends and household by compartment phone, but work astatine the clip was interrupted.

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After the fact, hundreds of people stayed outside on the sidewalks successful downtown Baltimore, not wanting to instrumentality to their high-rise buildings.

The quake was centered adjacent Louisa, Va., successful Louisa County, which is northwest of Richmond and southbound of Washington.

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The quake was the East Coast’s largest since 1944.

CBS Baltimore Staff