Gloria Jean Parker-May felt thought Friday morning’s earthquake was something else.
“Right about 5 a.m. I thought I was dreaming, and then wondering why such a big truck would be driving through the neighborhood,” said May about the feeling the quake. “So that explains why the bed was shaking.”
She lives in Dale City, but the 3.6 magnitude quake was centered about 50 miles north in Germantown, Md., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake hit at 5:04 a.m., prompting at least six resdidents in Prince William to call 911 to report they felt something out of the ordinary.
Stafford County public safety officials said they received no calls.
No injuries and no damage was reported.
The quake quickly became the talk of local morning TV news shows and on social networking sites on the Web.
It’s not often the area residents feel the earth move.
The region last felt a large quake on Dec. 9, 2003, when a 4.5 magnitude earthquake shook homes in Charlottesville. The epicenter of that quake was located in Powhatan County, 104 miles south of Washington.
The largest quake ever recorded in the region, a magnitude 4.8, occurred in 1875, according to the U.S.G.S.
