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to locate," said Brian Lassige, a geophysicist at the LJHGH Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.
By comparison he said, faults in California are closer to the surface and identifiable hy visual cracks in the earth
This earthquake was felt hy residents throughout Northern Virginia into Maryland and as far south as Raleigh, N.C.
While earthquakes in Virginia are uncommon, historical reports of heavy quakes date to 1774, when a quake knocked homes off their foundations in Petersburg
The largest earthquake on record in Virginia was a 5.8 in Giles County near Lynchburg in 1897
In that quake, witnesses saw the earth roll, springs stopped flowing and house chimneys came tumbling down
Contribution to thin article were stuff writers Leslie Menefee and Scott Cissel.
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