Looks like we had an earthquake in Virginia today around 2PM, and it was felt all the way up the coast to Maine and into Canada.

The USGS is reporting it as a 5.8 or 5.9 magnitude quake.

Thanks to Xeni Jardin, here’s a Google map showing how close the epicenter of the quake was to the North Anna …

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