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       Editor and prime reporter is Doug Terry, a veteran television and radio reporter in   Washington, DC, (details below)

EARTHQUAKE!

A day care center in New Jersey just across the Hudson from NYC was evacuated as a precaution. credit: Britt Fischer

Office buildings in Hoboken, NJ, were evacuated. Here, office workers talk and mill about, some wearing hard hats, waiting for the word to go back inside. They were kept out about two hours. Credit: Britt Fischer

Video recorded at a Ford dealership in Waldorf, Maryland, can be viewed on youtube by clicking on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50K55GlzBaU

Well, one never forgets an experience like that. I was, as usual, at my laptop computer just before 2 PM eastern when the screen started shaking back and forth. I knew immediately that something was not right, but I wondered for a moment if a really big truck had gone by or something. When the shaking continued, there was no doubt.

Now I know why people in quake video look so confused: who knows what to do? I got up from my desk and walked toward the front of my office. As I did, I heard the same rumbling sound I had heard, half asleep, a year ago when another quake hit the Maryland area. Similar to, but different, than thunder. By then, I knew completely that we had a mild quake (mild by some standards, but scary enough just the same).

There’s lots of news coverage on this elsewhere, but we have some photos from the NY area to post. Hurricane coverage coming up later in the week.

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