August 23, 2011, 1:51 PM EDT

[Kay T FouruWoah]

Do you remember what you were doing?

📌 Fun Facts — The Mineral Earthquake of 2011

• Date & Time: August 23, 2011, 1:51 PM EDT
• Magnitude: 5.8 (one of the strongest quakes in Eastern U.S. history)
• Epicenter: Mineral, Virginia — Louisa County
• Depth: ~3.7 miles (shallow quakes often feel stronger at the surface)
• Damage:
• Louisa County High School heavily damaged; condemned and rebuilt
• Louisa County Courthouse cracked and shed stone
• Dozens of homes lost chimneys and brickwork
• Washington Monument in D.C. sustained prominent cracks
• National Cathedral’s pinnacles and flying buttresses damaged
• Reach: Felt by tens of millions from Georgia to Canada
• Casualties: None reported in Mineral; minor injuries in wider region
• Aftermath: Hundreds of aftershocks over the next year

Teri Henderson, kt4uo
Waynesboro, VA
Ten-Ten #68865
434-806-6946 cell

[Deb Fordham]

I was at work at a dentist office in Harrisonburg and the copy machine started flapping weirdly. I called David, KD9LA at JMU and asked if he had just had an earthquake and he acknowledged it. As a Mormon, it knocked the angel Moroni off the top of the LDS temple in Washington DC (actually Kensington MD), the big beautiful building on the hill as you go around the beltway. 

Deborah B Fordham

N4DBE

540-234-0448 landline

540-820-6765 cell

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[Greg Butler]

I was still living in earthquake country (SoCal, near Palm Springs) at the time. Oddly enough, my wife and I were on vacation in Front Royal, in Walmart at that moment. Recognized it right away as an earthquake, but wondered why temblors were following us around.

Greg, KW6GB

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[John Nelson N3JN]

That day I was actually at Shenandoah Valley Electric Coop where I did consulting work.

I was in Jason Armentrout’s (N4DSL) office.  I forget why I was there.

The metal roof started to rattle like it was suddenly really windy, but I looked out the window and the nearby plants and bushes were still.

I think we turned to each other and realized it must have been an Earthquake.

Checkout the USGS website for the latest earthquakes worldwide:  Latest Earthquakes

 

John – N3JN

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