SomeguyfromTakomaPark

13th and Monroe

Also there was structural damage to Columbia Heights Education Campus.

And Best Buy was flooded from broken pipes and is closed indefinitely.

Only one with schools damaged apparently...so yeah...again...that's PG county. About as structurally sound as their political leaders.

To be fair I just read a lot of schools in Fairfax are damaged also.

I walked by the Ecuadorian Embassy on the way back from DCUSA. For some reason that whole section of Columbia Heights seemed to sustain quite a bit of damage, perhaps it's the bedrock there and older brick structures. DC police did a good job getting to the scene quickly to evacuate residents and blocking off the area.

I was in Bell during the Earthquake. I did notice one crack on the wall where some drywall or plaster had fallen.

According to Washington Post "D.C. Fire officials were investigating reports of significant cracks in buildings at the Ecuadorian Embassy and Bell Multicultural School, said Pete Piringer, a spokesman."

DCPS hasn't decided to close schools or not, they say they are doing an inspection of all 126 buildings tonight. Why does it seem like inspecting 126 buildings in one night is impossible?

Just out of curiosity, can someone explain how it felt? Was it more of a roll, and then more violent shaking? Just wondering.

My students (I teach high school) noticed it first. It side to side shaking of the entire school building (I was on the 3rd floor).

Best ever

From reddit.com

"If you stop eating outside, the earthquakes have won."

I saw this quake on the 126 hr panel of the GFS last week.

I was snowshoeing through DC this time last year.