A small earthquake shaken central Virginia on Wed night, the U.S. Geological Study said, but while it rattled and shook anxiety there were no immediate reviews of harm or accidents.
The tremble, with a initial scale of 3.2, occurred at 9:47 p.m. and was based 32 kilometers western of the investment of Richmond, the USGS said.
Local television channels revealed that numerous citizens of Amelia and Powhatan areas, and some from Richmond, called in saying they had experienced the tremble.
Amelia Nation Police John Master was estimated by the Richmond Times-Dispatch as saying that he was unacquainted with any reviews of harm.
"So far, they just got a lot of phone calls about the disturbance and the trembling," Master said.
The paper estimated Powhatan Nation citizen Carolyn Bishop as saying that the earth tremble "sounded like a blast," and shaken her house for a second or two, but she didn't see anything fall to a floor.
The area has a history of seismic action. In Aug 2011, a magnitude-5.8 earth tremble based near the main Virginia city of Nutrient was experienced from Atlanta to Northern America and triggered breaks in the California monument that kept the 555-foot obelisk closed until just last week.
In Virginia, this year's tremble broken nearly 1,000 houses in Louisa Nation and completely closed two educational institutions. Dominion Virginia Power's Northern An - Energy Place also was closed down momentarily after calculated floor action was about twice the level for which the atomic power place was designed. It was the first working U.S. atomic place closed down because of an earth tremble.
More than 450 aftershocks have been documented since the Aug 2011 tremble.
The tremble, with a initial scale of 3.2, occurred at 9:47 p.m. and was based 32 kilometers western of the investment of Richmond, the USGS said.
Local television channels revealed that numerous citizens of Amelia and Powhatan areas, and some from Richmond, called in saying they had experienced the tremble.
Amelia Nation Police John Master was estimated by the Richmond Times-Dispatch as saying that he was unacquainted with any reviews of harm.
"So far, they just got a lot of phone calls about the disturbance and the trembling," Master said.
The paper estimated Powhatan Nation citizen Carolyn Bishop as saying that the earth tremble "sounded like a blast," and shaken her house for a second or two, but she didn't see anything fall to a floor.
The area has a history of seismic action. In Aug 2011, a magnitude-5.8 earth tremble based near the main Virginia city of Nutrient was experienced from Atlanta to Northern America and triggered breaks in the California monument that kept the 555-foot obelisk closed until just last week.
In Virginia, this year's tremble broken nearly 1,000 houses in Louisa Nation and completely closed two educational institutions. Dominion Virginia Power's Northern An - Energy Place also was closed down momentarily after calculated floor action was about twice the level for which the atomic power place was designed. It was the first working U.S. atomic place closed down because of an earth tremble.
More than 450 aftershocks have been documented since the Aug 2011 tremble.
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