Earthquake Hits Maryland

Earthquake hits Maryland, which affected a lot on the neighboring suburban areas. The earthquake stroke early in the Morning time been reported as 5 am. It hit with the magnitude of 3.6 reports say. When asked from President Mr. Barack Obama he said that he did not feel the earthquake, which was been recorded with highest magnitude since 1974. In fact, the earthquake of such magnitude was been hit before almost 35 years ago. This earthquake of such high magnitude took everybody by surprise. Reportedly, more than five thousand people felt the earthquake in the area affected and the surroundings when the survey was been done after an hour when earthquake hit.

Maryland, which is twenty miles away from the capital Washington, bore an earthquake with the intensity that has set a record. It is been said that the previous earthquake of such intensity was of 2.7 magnitude and it was been hit almost fifty miles from Gaithersberg and it was in 1993 when all this happened. The sheet above shows the earthquakes in Maryland and surrounding areas since 1758 that was been updated in the year 2003.