The City of Bowie sent employees home early, and closed city buildings.
Prince George's County Schools canceled Tuesday evening activities , and canceled Wednesday classes. Thirty-two public schools in the county remained closed on Thursday, including Bowie's Yorktown Elementary School.
A 3.6 magnitude quake centered in Gaithersburg, MD shook the city a little over a year ago on July 16, 2010.
Click here for the USGS information on the quake, and click here for a USGS list of recent earthquakes.
UPDATE
The following aftershocks have occurred:
- Magnitude 2.4: Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 11:27:47 AM
- Magnitude 2.3: Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 02:37:31 AM
- Magnitude 4.5: Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 01:07:50 AM
- Magnitude 2.5: Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 12:06:47 AM
- Magnitude 3.4: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 12:45:26 AM
- Magnitude 4.2: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 08:04:36 PM
- Magnitude 2.2: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 03:20:26 PM
- Magnitude 2.8: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 02:46:50 PM
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I was in Ocean City and missed it. Got home today to find some things fallen out of my medicine cabinet
ReplyDeleteMy wife and kids were in Ocean City as well. They were on an elevator at the time, and they thought they just had a really bad elevator.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you got out just in time. A mandatory evacuation of Ocean City is underway, and the traffic leaving O.C. is terrible.