Earthquake plays havoc with East Coast cell networks

Release Date 24 Aug, 2011 in Christian Science Monitor

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US East Coast May Be At Risk of Aftershocks Bloomberg - Esmé E. Deprez, William Selway - 24 Aug, 2011 Police stand next to earthquake damage near Euclid and 15th Street NW in Washington where part of the roof crumbled during a 5.9 magnitude earthquake that struck the East Coast on ...
GeekMom Home Experiment: Can You Spot an Earthquake? Wired News - 24 Aug, 2011 By GeekMom Blog I have now experienced two earthquakes in my life, the first on July 16, 2010, the same morning my son was born, and again yesterday, August 23, 2011. I never thought that living on the East Coast that I'd ever rock the way that I did ...
	Town at epicenter assesses damage USA Today - Marisol Bello - 24 Aug, 2011 MINERAL, VA. �" This rural community of winding roads, farms and timber mills is assessing the damage to its schools, homes and businesses after it became the epicenter of a 5.8 earthquake that was felt all along the East ...
	Baltimore's first earthquake tweet Baltimore Sun (blog) - 24 Aug, 2011 We all know by now that social media, specifically networks such as Twitter and Facebook, played a big role in connecting people after yesterday's earthquake. Well, the folks at Twitter sifted through all those messages yesterday and then emailed me ...
	US quake brings terrorism fears to surface Sydney Morning Herald - Marc Fisher - 24 Aug, 2011 Scary enough ... debris covers the floor of the Miller's Mart food store near Richmond. Photo: AP WASHINGTON: A rumble, a shaking floor and Sarah Saadian, a block from the White House, had one thought - terrorism. In Washington, 10 years later, ...
	Strong East Coast Earthquake Highly Unusual, Scientist Says Fox News - 24 Aug, 2011 Office workers evacuated from buildings on Broadway in New York stand outside after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that struck the US East Coast August 23, 2011. The strong earthquake that rattled the eastern United States on Tuesday was highly unusual in ...
At least 4 aftershocks registered after Va quake Wall Street Journal - 24 Aug, 2011 AP RICHMOND, Va. �" The 5.8-magnitude earthquake Tuesday that shook people from Georgia to Canada has produced at least four aftershocks. The US Geological Survey says the aftershocks around the central Virginia epicenter ranged in magnitude from 4.2 to ...
The Two-Way : NPR NPR - Eyder Peralta - 24 Aug, 2011 This file photo shows Tennessee women's basketball head coach Pat Summitt talking with reporters during the Southeastern Conference basketball media day, in Hoover, Ala. This file photo shows Tennessee women's basketball head coach Pat ...
Alex Brandon/AP NPR (blog) - Mark Memmott - 24 Aug, 2011 There was supposedly some "snickering" from jaded folks on the West Coast of the US on Tuesday as they watched many on the East Coast express alarm and surprise over the 5.8-magnitude earthquake that shook things from the Carolina's to New England. ...
The Day: Quake Shakes Social Media New York Times (blog) - Annaliese Griffin - 24 Aug, 2011 After an earthquake shook the East Coast yesterday afternoon, we checked in on Twitter and Facebook to see what locals had to say about it. From trembling coffee cups to evacuated buildings we got all kinds ...
	Earthquake plays havoc with East Coast cell networks Christian Science Monitor - Jeff Ward-Bailey - 24 Aug, 2011 Cell networks went down in many areas immediately following the 5.8-magnitude. But Verizon, AT&T, and others say there was no damage to their networks. Here's why. A woman tries to find cellphone service August 23, 2011 in Lower Manhattan, NY, ...
Earthquake in California gives West Coasters their own fair shake Washington Post (blog) - Melissa Bell - 24 Aug, 2011 School children practice their "drop, cover and hold" technique, as they participate in the "Great Southern California Shakeout." (Damian Dovarganes/AP) In the past 24 hours, a whole lot of shaking went on. ...
	Virginia quake: What the numbers say, and what you experience Christian Science Monitor - Chris Richardson - 24 Aug, 2011 Virginia quake: It was a magnitude 5.9. Earthquake metrics help us compare different earthquakes, but what does a 5.0 versus a 6.0 actually feel like? Earthquake damage: Tony Williams surveys damage at his Mineral, Virginia home after a 5.9 earthquake ...
A day after quake, Washington awakes to closures Washington Post - Joel Achenbach, William Branigin - 24 Aug, 2011 An unsettled Washington region awoke Wednesday to the closure of many area schools, some federal buildings and landmarks including the Washington Monument, a day after a rare, powerful 5.8-magnitude earthquake ...
US East Coast quake cracks Washington Monument stone Reuters - Deborah Zabarenko, Vicki Allen - 24 Aug, 2011 WASHINGTON Aug 24 (Reuters) - The earthquake that shook much of the US East Coast cracked one of the stones at the top of the Washington Monument, a National Park Service spokesman said on Wednesday. The huge obelisk, a prime tourist attraction on the ...
	Big East Coast quakes are rare, rattling CNN - 24 Aug, 2011 (CNN) -- Earthquakes of the intensity felt Tuesday along a vast corridor of the East Coast don't come along too often in this region, geophysicist Rowena Lohman says. They are so rare "that it is very difficult for earth scientists to identify specific ...
Summary Box: Post-quake tease on social networks BusinessWeek - 24 Aug, 2011 By AP ON THE EAST: People went to Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus with expressions of surprise, worry and sometimes panic over the most powerful earthquake to hit them in decades. People asked on the social networks if it was really an earthquake ...
	Above All Else, Eastern Quake Rattles Nerves New York Times - Katharine Q. Seelye - 24 Aug, 2011 J. Scott Applewhite/AP Office workers gathered on a sidewalk in Washington on Tuesday afternoon moments after an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 rumbled through the city. More Photos » By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE The Washington Monument and several other ...
	Strongest quake in 67 years hits East Coast Newsday (subscription) - Hugo Kugiya - 24 Aug, 2011 Breaking Newsday > News > Breaking Strongest quake in 67 years hits East Coast Originally published: August 23, 2011 11:39 PM Updated: August 23, 2011 11:41 PM By HUGO KUGIYA hugo.kugiya@newsday.com The strongest earthquake on the East Coast in 67 ...
	Virginia quake deals a seismic surprise Nature.com (subscription) - Richard Monastersky - 24 Aug, 2011 Lack of monitoring in the region poses a challenge to those trying to understand the once-in-a-century event. A magnitude-5.8 earthquake centred in Virginia rocked the East coast of the United States on 23 August. Click for larger image. ...
Most powerful quake in 100 years rocks US East Coast IBNLive.com - 24 Aug, 2011 Quake rocks Washington: The most powerful earthquake to strike the East Coast in 67 years shook buildings and rattled nerves from South Carolina to Maine on Tuesday. Frightened office workers spilled into the streets in New York, and parts of the White ...
A weird day for earthquakes in the U.S., but that's, um, normal Los Angeles Times - 24 Aug, 2011 Lost in the hullabaloo about the 5.8 quake in Virginia on Tuesday was the fact that there were about 90 other earthquakes across the United States that same day, including a 5.3 quake in Colorado. Of course, only a few of those were detectable by ...
	The Six Most Significant East Coast Earthquakes ABC News - Christina Caron - 24 Aug, 2011 Tuesday's earthquake, felt by residents all along the East Coast, may not have resulted in destruction, but seismologists say the shaker was unlike anything they'd expected in the area and could have been far more ...
	Earthquake: What to Do in a Major Crisis ABC News - Ned Potter - 24 Aug, 2011 Police cordon off an area outside a in Washington, where part of the roof crumbled during a 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the East Coast, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA) You're sitting at your desk, ...
Video: Moment of DC, Virginia earthquake caught on CCTV RT - 24 Aug, 2011 Follow latest updates on http://twitter.com/RT_com and http://www.facebook.com/RTnews One of the strongest earthquakes on record has shaken the East Coast of the United States. Windows shattered and grocery stores were wrecked in Virginia, ...
'Hey East Coast, the entire West Coast is mocking you right now' msnbc.com - 24 Aug, 2011 >>> we begin with this earthquake felt from atlanta to montreal and epicenter near mineral, virginia . tom costello is there. tom, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. they're blaming this on carl's kids. we've had significant aftershocks here in ...
Residents shocked at epicenter of rare US quake Khaleej Times - 24 Aug, 2011 MINERAL, Virginia - Residents of this small Virginia town were recovering Wednesday from the shock of being at the epicenter of the rare earthquake that shook much of the eastern United States. The 5.8-magnitude quake, which struck at 1:51 pm (1751 ...
	Seven children among dead in Australia fire AsiaOne - 24 Aug, 2011 WASHINGTON - A strong and rare earthquake jolted the eastern United States, damaging old buildings and sending tens of thousands of people scurrying into the streets but causing no known casualties. The 5.8-magnitude quake, which lasted 20-30 seconds ...
Virginia quake felt as far away as NB TheChronicleHerald.ca - Lee-Anne Goodman - 24 Aug, 2011 WASHINGTON �" A 5.9 magnitude earthquake centred in rural Virginia caused widespread evacuations and some injuries on the US East Coast on Tuesday, giving citizens residing in a part of the continent rarely rattled ...
	Local New York news stations hustle to cover reports on the Virginia ... New York Daily News - Richard Huff - 24 Aug, 2011 Local stations scrambled to get their news teams on the air to explain the sudden shaking of New York City Tuesday. Turns out it was a 5.8-magnitude earthquake in Virginia that rattled buildings and people in New York. ...