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T was centered to the south of us in charlottesville, virginia. we are in a part here in washington, d.c. where nbc news is, and we are right next door to the department of homeland security in northwest washington and a high point of the city, and several dhs employees are outside of their building as well. i talked to one of them on the cell phone who said they were ordered outside of their buildings. they are in an old u.s. navy facility hastily converted into the offices of the homelandment they say they have not heard of any damage and the response around town has varied. i talked to folks at the u.s. supreme court and they were not evacuated and the justices are not around in the summer, but a lot of the staff is there. the capitol was and people in parts of the pentagon were and other federal agencies, it seems to to vary, but we have not heard of any reports of damage, but it is so unusual here. my colleague kelly o donnell who ....
Skyscraper sway, and the people in new york would be feeling it much more strongly. those surface waves which are giving the rolling motions than they would here. what are you looking for next here? should we be bracing for any other smaller tremors? i know you can t predict the future here, but what should we be looking for next here? so, in general, when there is a moderate to large earthquake, there are aftershocks. i would not expect them to be big. but, the earth is always surprising to us. for example, in japan there was a magnitude 7.0, and a couple of days later, there was a huge one and i don t expect that. the last three earthquakes on the east coast, one in the early 1900s and one in the late 1800s and charleston with the grand banks earthquake and in general the east coast is much more ....
Evacuated after that quake, so again, park service saying that all of the malls and the monuments and the memorials there, and a lot of folks on vacation there in washington, d.c., and all of those for the time being have been closed and evacuated. we are getting reports from providence, rhode island, and providence, there is a number of stories of folks in downtown providence after feeling the earth shake there, folks spilled into the streets and they all kind of looked around at each other as if to say, what do we do now? but hordes of folks spilling into the streets the of providence we are told. the air traffic control tower, the air traffic control tower of andrews has been evacuated and also, i believe we reported this a short time ago that the federal courthouse in lower manhattan and the 26-story federal courthouse one of the federal government buildings here in new york city, that building was evacuated and city hall also evacuated briefly as well. the earthquake being felt in ....
Should note that two buildings in the new york city area, and this is according to the associated press, but government buildings here in new york city including city hall have been evacuated. the 26-story federal courthouse in lower manhattan evacuating hundreds of people seen leaving that building and at this point, they are not letting people back in. we have not gotten reports of tremors here in the past few minutes, but again, reports of people feeling the tremors from the east coast. and now in parts of the midwest apparently. okay. you know what, craig. thank you. let me go to peggy hellway, a seismologist who is standing by, and tell us what happened here. well, there was an earthquake west-southwest of washington, d.c. and one of the big differences was that it was a magnitude of 5.9 and one of the big differences between the east ....
And you see the events at the national mall and i was on the phone with senator coons, and like you, he said i was walking around and i felt suddenly the earth shake under my feet. i have a note here that another evacuation is taking place, but pete, any more information about the buildingings in your area being evacuated? no, i think that pretty soon people will be allowed back into their buildings here now that it is clearly or at least as far as anyone can tell over. there will be concern about the condition of the buildings, and that may be one question that federal officials will want to look at. i am sure that there is somewhere in washington a plan of what to do about a earthquake, but if there is one, they are grabbing it off of the shelf and blowing the dust off of it, because the only disaster that officials had in mind here was them oc coming of the hurri bearing down and the u.s. and thought to be reaching this area ....