快訊：美國東海岸6.0級地震波及加拿大多倫多震感明.

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來源：路透社

　　快訊：美國東海岸6.0級地震波及加拿大多倫多震感明顯據路透社報道，今天(8月23日)加拿大東時間下午1點50分左右，美國東海岸發生裡氏5.8級（後被更正為6.0級）強烈地震，地震波侵襲加拿大和美國多個大城市，多倫多有明顯震感。倍可親網友太英勇了，地震來了還忙著發微博。

　　詳細博文記述：地震啦！

　　華盛頓市中心建築物發生搖晃，紐約有震感，五角大樓對工作人員進行了緊急疏散。美國地質勘探局稱，此次地震的震中位於弗吉尼亞州首府裡士滿（Mineral, Va）附近。

　　多倫多1年2次明顯震感

　　這是多倫多1年來第2次遭遇地震。

　　去年（2010）年6月23日13點41分41秒，加拿大安省發生5.0級地震，震中位於渥太華北部53公裡處的安省和魁省交界處，深度達地下18公裡。加拿大的蒙特利爾、多倫多，安省最南部的溫莎也有明顯震感;美國的波士頓和克裡夫蘭均有震感，甚至紐約和部分州也有震感。

　　昨日美國科羅拉多州多次地震

　　此外，昨日晚間,美國科羅拉多州也發生5.3級地震，但沒有人員傷亡報告。美國地質勘測局公布的數據顯示，地震發生在當地時間22日23點46分，震源深4.9公裡，距離最近城市特立尼達15公裡，距離州政府所在地丹佛290公裡，距離新墨西哥州拉頓33公裡。科羅拉多、新墨西哥、德克薩斯和堪薩斯等附近幾個州的民眾在地質勘測局的網站上留言表示自己感受到了地震，有人說牆在搖晃，但沒有人員傷亡報告。留言的民眾最遠來自加州聖地亞哥。當天在科羅拉多南部距離寇克代爾約19公裡處還分別發生了3.6和4.6級兩次地震。

　　5.8級地震襲美東白宮撤離

　　一場裡氏5.8級的地震剛剛襲擊了美國東北部地區，相關情況有待進一步報道。

　　據《華盛頓郵報》(Washington Post)消息，今天午後紛紛有報告顯示華府、紐約、費城、波士頓以及克利夫蘭地區均遭到地震襲擊。其中位於弗吉尼亞的Mineral鎮的震級為裡氏5.8級，後被更正為6.0級。

　　據“福克斯”新聞(Fox News)，在華盛頓受到地震襲擊後，國會山和白宮工作人員已經全部撤離;另據“美聯社”(AP)消息，五角大樓已經全部撤離。

　　

　　An earthquake centered 340 miles south ofNew Yorkset buildings swaying in the city - the first major quake to hit New York in years.

　　The government estimated the initial magnitude at 5.9 on the Richter Scale with the epicenter located nearRichmond, Va.

　　The quake, which lasted only a few seconds, was felt up and down the Eastern Seaboard - as far north asToronto.

　　"Wow, that was scary," saidNathan Buck, 41, a filmmaker who was editing an internet video on the 7th floor of a pre-war inHarlem.

　　"I saw my globe start to wobble. At first I thought - is it me? Then a pile of CDs came crashing down."

　　In New York, police headquarters and City Hall were evacuated.

　　The 26-story federal courthouse inlower Manhattanbegan swaying and hundreds of people fled into the street.

　　InWashington, DC,the Pentagonand Capitol were evacuated. There were no initial reports of damage.

　　The quake was also felt on the golf course onMartha's VineyardwherePresident Obamawas playing.

　　

　　An earthquake sent tremors from the nation’s capital to New York City and New England Tuesday afternoon, the result of what officials said was a 5.9 magnitude earthquake based in Virginia.

　　Buildings throughout major metropolitan centers in the northeast were evacuated after the quake, and tremors were felt as far north as Concord, N.H., and as far south as Hampstead, N.C., with some limited reports of damage reported near the quake’s epicenter in Virginia, where a nuclear power plant was taken offline.

　　The streets of downtown Washington filled with thousands of people on Tuesday afternoon as buildings from the capital to the White House were evacuated.

　　A mild shake and tremble could be felt shortly before 2 p.m. The movement lasted no more than 30 seconds in downtown Washington.

　　Fire alarms sounded throughout the downtown business district in Washington on an otherwise bright and sunny afternoon. Pennsylvania Avenue, from Capitol Hill to the White House, was filled with evacuated workers and tourists on Tuesday afternoon. There was no panic -- or obvious reason to -- as people recounted the trembling moment shortly before 2 p.m.

　　Andre Smith-Pugh, a 25-year-old carpentry worker, was high above the Eisenhower Executive Office Building when he felt the shaking.

　　"It felt like the scaffolding was coming down," he said in an interview. "It felt like a big truck slammed into the side of the building right here at the White House."

　　He and his work crew climbed down and gathered outside the White House. None were injured, he said, but all were rattled.

　　Several buildings in New York City were evacuated, with employees standing in the streets in midtown Manhattan. Rumbles were reported on Twitter from places as far-flung as Martha’s Vineyard, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee.

　　“Our townhouse started shaking a short time ago and branches started to fall off trees and hit our windows and hit our roof like crazy,” said Bill Parks of Hummelstown, Pa. “It lasted about 10 seconds and was as bad as the Northridge after shock I had experienced while visiting in California. I ran outdoors and found my neighbor calling a friend in Virginia who also felt the profound quake. This quake was like none I ever experienced in the East in my life and I am 76 years old.”

　　In Mineral, Va., a town about of about 500 people located four miles from the quake’s center, residents reported extensive damage to items inside homes. China shattered and pictures fell off walls. The Virginia epicenter was just miles from a decades-old nuclear power plant, the North Anna, operated by Dominion Power in Richmond, where two reactors were taken offline.

　　The tremors were even felt in Boston, where John D. Tuerck said he felt "a discernible swaying on the 18th floor" of his office tower. He added: "Not something one expects here, for sure."

　　In downtown Manhattan, police officers ordered the evacuation of New York’s City’s Hall a few minutes before 2 p.m., sending Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his staff scurrying out of the building.

　　Mr. Bloomberg, standing in front of the grand Renaissance-style building, said he had felt the tremors but assumed they stemmed from extensive renovations underway inside City Hall.

　　"I did feel a little bit of shake," he said."And then it got greater."

　　"So far," Mr. Bloomberg said, "we have no reports of any damage."

　　In Fort Greene, Brooklyn, calls of "did you feel that?" could be heard on nearly every street corner.

　　"I’m from California and I thought, ’that feels like an earthquake, but no, it can’t be an earthquake!’" said Matt Flammer, 23, who was standing in Bespoke Bicycles, the shop where he works on Lafayette Avenue, when the bikes on the wall began to sway.

　　In Washington, the tremor caused strong shaking in the Capitol, which was quickly evacuated for a structural evaluation. Chandeliers swayed and one short burst shook the centuries-old building. With a pro forma Senate session scheduled, Senate officials gathered across Constitution Avenue to determine how to proceed.

　　Jeff Zeleny, Carl Hulse and Elisabeth Bumiller contributed reporting from Washington, and Elizabeth Harris contributed reporting from New York City.