Tuesday, May 06, 2008
What was that?
I was sitting at my desk this afternoon around 1:30 when all of a sudden there was a loud bang that shook the building. My first thought was that the roof had fallen in, or one of the maintenance workers had dropped something big up on the roof. A check of the facilities showed that thankfully everything was alright. Then we started to hear reports that Fort Belvoir was blasting nearby, only the blasting wasn't supposed to start until 4:15 today. Further, a call to the police revealed that they were swamped with calls wanting to know what happened from as far away as Vienna and Falls Church (10 miles away) and they didn't know what had happened either. Turns out it was a 1.8 magnitude earthquake!
Labels: Various, Virginia observations
