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Jul 16, 2010

The Earthquake and Why It’s Not That Big of a Deal, Really

I’m pretty sure U Street on Friday nights registers higher-intensity reports.This morning, the local media devoted nearly every resource they could muster the energy to summon to cover an event that — if you didn’t sleep straight through it — felt like a Metro train or a truck barreling by. Yes, the earthquake. Let’s straighten some things out here. Is feeling an earthquake in the District of Columbia a rarity? Yes. Was this particular quake…

 
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