The quake , near Washington , sends tremors as far away as North Carolina . `` At first we thought it was a huge truck that went past , '' a witness says . `` I know shaking and this felt big , '' says a former Californian , now in Virginia . You start thinking too much . A man who lives on the other side of town from where the earthquake hit said he heard an explosion at around 1 a.m. ``` He ran outside to see what had happened but there were no
The quake , near Washington , sends tremors as far away as North Carolina . `` At first we thought it was a huge truck that went past , '' a witness says . `` I know shaking and this felt big , '' says a former Californian , now in Virginia . A man who lives on the other side of town from where the earthquake hit said he heard an explosion at around 1 a.m. ``` He ran outside to see what had happened but there were no