Earthquake in Washington D.C. Area
EARTHQUAKE IN WASHINGTON DC AREA, NEW YORK and the NORTHEAST
EVEN UNDER THE FEET OF THE PRESIDENT ON THE GOLF COURSE at
MARTHA’S VINEYARD…
(grapes grown in Israel)
Don’t mess with HIS Vineyard Israel…
the planting of His hand
Note how many government buildings were affected. And in New York, where homosexual marriage was recently forced through.
And the shaking was felt even under the feet of the sitting president who was on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard.
Please hear… that as America comes to try to take His mountains, the shaking will rise here in this nation… even unto dividing.
Remember the New Madrid fault line and all that He has shown over the years concerning this. ‘Madrid… sun ripened fruit’… and a door swinging open… even as the fault line forms a ‘dalet’, which in Hebrew means ‘door’:
Be sure and read the brief comments at the end of these news articles…
And watch and pray.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44245009/ns/us_news-life/#.TlQcjOtGGIk
D.C., N.Y. areas evacuate as quake felt across East - US news - Life - msnbc.com
WASHINGTON — An earthquake in central Virginia was felt across much of the East Coast on Tuesday, causing light damage and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate buildings in New York, Washington and other cities.
No tsunami warning was issued, but air and train traffic was disrupted across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic.
In the Washington, D.C., area, parts of the Pentagon, White House and Capitol were among the areas evacuated. All memorials and monuments on the National Mall were evacuated and closed for inspections. Most areas had reopened after several hours.
At the Pentagon, a low rumbling built and built to the point that the building shook. People ran into the corridors of the government's biggest building and as the shaking continued there were shouts of "Evacuate! Evacuate!"
The quake even broke a water main inside the Pentagon, flooding parts of two floors, NBC reported.
"We were rocking," said Larry Beach, who works at the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington. "It was definitely significant."
Initial damage reports from Washington included Ecuador's embassy and the central tower at the National Cathedral, where three pinnacles on the 30-story-tall tower broke off.
Centered some 90 miles south of the nation's capital, the quake was a magnitude 5.8, the U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday after an earlier estimate of 5.9.
The quake was tied for third strongest along the East Coast in recorded history, USGS records show. Charleston, S.C., was hit by a 7.3 in 1886 and Giles County, Va., saw a 5.9 in 1897. A 5.8 quake struck New York state in 1944.
Two nuclear reactors near the epicenter were taken offline as a precaution, officials said. No damage was reported at either.
At the U.S. Capitol, light fixtures swung and the building shook for about 15 seconds while the tremor hit, NBC News reported.
"I thought at first somebody was shaking my chair and then I thought maybe it was a bomb," said Senate aide Wendy Oscarson-Kirchner.
At Reagan National Airport outside Washington, ceiling tiles fell during a few seconds of shaking. All flights were put on hold and one terminal was evacuated due to a gas smell.
In New York City, NBC reported debris fell from the attorney general's office, causing a brief panic as people ran from the area.
Quake interrupts Manhattan for a New York minute
Airport towers and government buildings in New York, including City Hall, were evacuated. The 26-story federal courthouse in lower Manhattan began swaying and hundreds of people were seen leaving the building.
Flights from the New York area's John F. Kennedy and Newark airports were delayed while authorities inspected control towers and runways. Philadelphia's airport also halted flights for inspections.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg reported "no reports of significant damage or injuries in New York City at this time."
A mild tremor was even felt by NBC reporters with President Barack Obama during his vacation on Martha's Vineyard, an island off Massachusetts.
In Charleston, W.Va., hundreds of workers left the state Capitol building and employees at other downtown office buildings were asked to leave temporarily.
"The whole building shook," said Jennifer Bundy, a spokeswoman for the state Supreme Court. "You could feel two different shakes. Everybody just kind of came out on their own."
In Ohio, office buildings swayed in Columbus and Cincinnati, and the press box at the Cleveland Indians' Progressive Field shook. At least one building near the Statehouse was evacuated in downtown Columbus.
In downtown Baltimore, Md., the quake sent office workers into the streets, where lamp posts swayed slightly as they called family and friends to check in.
Amtrak reported train service along the Northeast Corridor between Baltimore and Washington, was operating at reduced speeds as crews inspected the lines.
The earthquake’s epicenter was near Mineral, Va., the USGS reported. It struck at 1:51 p.m. ET.
Earthquake Listed at 5.9 Rattles East Coast From Virginia to New Hampshire
Aug. 23, 2011
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake jolted the East Coast, rattling people from Martha's Vineyard to Washington, D.C. to North Carolina, prompting the evacuation of Congressional buildings, slowing rail and air traffic, and taking two nuclear reactors offline.
The earthquake sent people pouring out of office buildings, hospitals, the Pentagon and the State Department when it struck at 1:51 p.m. The pillars of the capitol in Washington, D.C. shook. Alarms sounded in the FBI and Department of Justice buildings, and some flooding was reported on an upper floor of the Pentagon as a result of the quake.
Parks and sidewalks in Washington were packed with people who fled their buildings. All of the monuments along the National Mall have been closed. Police on horseback kept people a safe distance from the Washington Monument and the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial.
National Parks Service Spokesman Jeffrey Olson told the Associated Press that there was "absolutely no damage" to the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial or other tourist destinations along the Mall.
The National Cathedral suffered damage to at least three of the cathedral's pinnacles, Dean of the Cathedral Samuel Lloyd said. The cathedral has been cordoned off with yellow police tape as a precaution.
Officials inspected Congressional buildings before members of Congress and their staff were allowed to return to their offices.
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The quake was felt as far north as New Hampshire and in Martha's Vineyard where President Obama and his family are vacationing. It was felt as far south as South Carolina and as far west as Cleveland, Ohio.
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The East Coast gets earthquakes from time to time, but rarely of a magnitude to make skyscrapers sway.
Paul Segall, a Stanford geophysicist who studies the structure and development of earthquake faults, called today's shaker "a significant earthquake for that part of the world. It could do significant damage."
"I can't remember an event that large on the East Coast," he said.
No significant damage or fatalities have been reported. Some injuries have been reported in Washington D.C., the fire department spokesman told the Associated Press. In New York City, the fire department said that they received a surge in calls.
Authorities in New York and Washington said cell phone traffic was so heavy that it hampered their ability to respond to emergencies. A spokesperson for the Federal Emergency Management Agency urged people to email and use text messaging instead of their cell phones for their next few hours to ease the congestion.
The epicenter of the quake was near Mineral, Va., 39 miles from Richmond, Va., and 83 miles from the nation's capital. The quake was .6 miles deep.
According to convertalot.com, a web site which compiles measurements and calculators for a variety of statistics, the magnitude 5.9 earthquake released energy equivalent to the explosion of 10,676 tons of TNT.
Amanda Reidelbach, office manager and spokeswoman for the Louisa County Department of Emergency Services in Mineral, Va., said that the town has felt "at least a half dozen or so" aftershocks since the initial quake struck.
"There were pretty serious aftershocks," she said. "We walked out onto the street and felt the ground just rumbling." (end quotes)
Some time ago, He began to show me Haggai 2. Please read the Scriptures below.
The name ‘Zerubbabel’, means those ‘coming out of Babel’… and ‘ShealtiEl’, ‘those who ask El’. This is pointing to His Bride, His Praying (asking El) Bride that has come ‘out of Babel’ and into Tsiyon.
His Bride is His signet ring on the earth… a signet ring of His authority that only comes forth by His Hand…
…in the midst of rising shaking, He will put us in position to pray, proclaim and declare His word.
Watch and pray.
In His shalom,
Constance
“For thus said YHWH of hosts,
‘Once more, in a little while, and I am shaking the heavens and earth, the sea and dry land…
… Speak to Zerubbabel, the governor of Yehudah, saying, ‘I am shaking the heavens and earth.
And I shall overturn the throne of reigns. And I shall destroy the might of the gentile reigns, and overturn the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall come down, each by the sword of his brother.
‘In that day,’ declares YHWH of hosts, ‘I shall take you, Zerubbabel My servant, son of She’alti’ĕl,’ declares YHWH, ‘and shall make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,’ declares YHWH of hosts.”
Haggai 2:6, 21-23
8/23/11
