The Baltimore Sun reports that an earthquake of a 3.6 magnitude struck Gaithersburg, Maryland around 5:00 am on Friday, July 16, 2010. The Sun further reports that around three million people felt the tremors.
Members of the Centennial community felt these tremors. Many facebook.com statuses expressed the students’ responses to the quake. Sophomore Jerrid Curry said, I was talking to a friend, and then my bed started shaking and then it went away.”
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Baltimore Sun states the earthquake was one of the strongest that has been centered in Maryland. Before the earthquake this morning, the strongest reported earthquake centered in Maryland was an earthquake in Hancock during 1978. The earthquake had a 3.1 magnitude.
Despite the earthquake being one of the strongest in Maryland, some Maryland residents slept through the earthquake. “I woke up, and I saw all of these Facebook statuses,” says senior Alexander Shadmehr, “I can‘t believe I slept through an earthquake!”
According to the Baltimore Sun, this is the second time Maryland has felt shakes this summer. Earlier, on June 23, 2010, Maryland experienced shakes due to a quake that occurred in Ottawa, Canada. The quake, with a 5.0 magnitude, sent shakes down the East Coast. The U.S Geological Survey last reported an earthquake in Maryland on October 8, 2007. It occurred five miles from Baltimore, Maryland and ten miles from Columbia, Maryland. However, this earthquake’s magnitude was only 1.3.
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Posted on 2010-07-16
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