Living Near the Epicenter of the M5.8 Mineral, Virginia, Earthquake

http://gallery.usgs.gov/videos/566 Watch video interviews with four people discussing their experiences near the epicenter of the magnitude 5.8 earthquake in central Virginia on August 23, 2011. Tens of millions of people in the eastern U.S. and southeastern Canada were startled by sudden ground shaking from this earthquake, which was among the largest to occur in this region in the last century.