East Coast Earthquake? Tell Us What You're Hearing From Friends

How the tables have turned.

A magnitude-5.8 earthquake shook the East Coast today, sending tremors up and down the coast as far south as Atlanta.

The quake hit just before 2 p.m. Eastern time, centered 38 miles northwest of Richmond, Va. and felt strongly in Washington, D.C.

Kate Hutton, a seismologist at Caltech, said today's quake was the largest on the East Coast since 1897, when a magnitude-5.9 quake struck in Virginia.

"One time, an earthquake there is quite unlikely," USGS seismologist Lucy Jones said. "The fact that eventually there's an earthquake there is not a surprise, because it is an area that's had earthquakes in the past. This is a recognized seismic zone, meaning it has had more earthquakes than we normally see out on the East Coast."

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City News Service contributed to this report.