Earthquake in New York today in 2011 it was up to Canada. Historic buildings in Washington DC suffered little damage. Thousands of workers in New York scrambled out of the building.
One other resident recalled, "The first reaction obviously shocked, because earthquakes are rare here." The earthquake was felt in 25 states. A geophysicist from the USGS Geological Survey said the United States was rocked by two earthquakes on Tuesday (23 / 8). An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale western.
"I do not know what to do. I have lived here a lifetime and have never felt the earthquake," said a worker. The workers at the Pentagon, the White House and Capitol evacuated the congressional office. End of the three towers of the National Cathedral in Washington, regardless, the building structure is also developing cracks.A recording of the press conference of sexual harassment cases Dominique Strauss-Kahn in New York clearly play vibrations occur. Journalists who frantically scrambled out of the building immediately. "I do not know what to think, I really do not know. The building was shaking," according to one of them.
According to records, the city of New York and surrounding areas within the last 300 years have three times hit by an earthquake with a similar strength as it did on Tuesday, namely 1737, 1783 and 1884.
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