真的是震了，5.8级，华盛顿附近。
5.8 earthquake rattles Canada, eastern U.S.
An earthquake centred in Virginia with a magnitude of 5.8 shook a broad swath of the eastern U.S. and parts of central and eastern Canada on Tuesday.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centred near Mineral, Va., about 135 kilometres southwest of Washington, D.C. After several revisions, the U.S.G.S. placed the quake's depth at six kilometres.
There were no immediate reports of serious injuries or deaths but a fire department spokesman in Washington said there are reports of some minor injuries.
Some damage was reported to buildings in Washington. A spokesman for Washington's National Cathedral says at least three of the four stone pinnacles on the central tower have fallen off and the central tower looks like it's leaning.
Several airports in New York, Philadelphia and the Washington area briefly suspended flights.
In the Washington, D.C. area, many major buildings were evacuated. In nearby Virginia, people ran through the corridors of the Pentagon amid shouts of "Evacuate! Evacuate!"
"I thought it was a big truck going down the street at first until the building started to sway," said CBC associate producer Caroline Laurin, who works in the CBC's Washington bureau.
"Then we all laughed nervously."
Two nuclear reactors near the epicentre in Virginia were automatically taken off line. No damage was reported there.
The quake was also felt in New York, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Georgia and north into Canada.
People from across the U.S. Eastern Seaboard and from Ontario to New Brunswick headed to their phones and their Twitter accounts to say they felt the ground move when the temblor struck at 1:51 p.m. ET.
In Toronto, CBC provincial affairs reporter Mike Crawley said he felt the walls of the Ontario legislature shake.
A pair of government buildings in downtown Sudbury, Ont., were evacuated after they began shaking. City officials say they were cleared out in order to check for any damage. Windsor, Ont., also felt a jolt and city hall was evacuated.
Other viewers have called and tweeted the CBC, reporting that they felt the earth shake in and around Ottawa and downtown Montreal.
Numerous buildings in downtown Fredericton have been evacuated. That included various government buildings and New Brunswick Power.
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发表于 2011-8-23 14:07:10
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