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Washington shaken by minor earthquake

July 16, 2010 03:22 pm | Updated 03:22 pm IST - Washington

The Washington, D.C., area has been shaken by a minor earthquake.

The quake hit at 5-04 a.m. EDT (0904 GMT) on Friday and had a magnitude of 3.6.

Randy Baldwin, a physicist with U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Centre, says the quake was centred in the Rockville, Maryland, area.

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There were no immediate reports of damage.

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