What Caused the Virginia Earthquake Today?<\/a><\/em><\/h3>\nThe quake came less than 24 hours after the strongest earthquake to strike Colorado in more than 40 years shook hundreds of people awake Monday. Starting at 11:46 PM, that earthquake was a 5.3 on the Richter scale and reached 2.5 miles down at its epi-center.<\/p>\n
Many believe the increasing number of natural disasters is due to the abuse our planet is forced to endure. This is a very controversial subject and, frankly, my personal opinion is that the earth does change and shift, and this is not the end of the world. Though, I admit, I secretly do hope it wakes up some people to their non-eco-friendly ways and they decide to make a change in lifestyle. Whether it is a normal earth occurrence, or the sign of a coming apocalypse,\u00a0 it never fails to remind people just how fragile we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 6.0 earthquake shook far beyond its epi-center in Mineral, Virginia; shaking was felt from as far north as Rhode Island, New York and as far south as Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 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