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Strong Aftershock Wakes Nelson & Area Early Thursday Morning

August 25, 2011

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Screen shot 2011-08-25 at 1.42.45 AM — Graphic via usgs.gov : Another 4.5 aftershock rocked Nelsonians and a wide area of the Mid Atlantic early Thursday morning around 1:07 EDT.

Nelson County, Virginia
We were in a dead sleep here at NCL early Thursday morning when another 4.5 magnitude aftershock woke us. This one lasted longer than the original one we experienced on Tuesday, though the intensity was not as great.

“Woke me up out of a dead sleep in Lovingston,” Joanie Saunders told us on our Facebook page.

Screen shot 2011-08-25 at 1.50.28 AM — Our Facebook and Twitter pages were going nuts with posts after - the 1:07 AM aftershock near Mineral, Virginia

Screen shot 2011-08-25 at 1.55.47 AM — Click on the image above to read the details about Thursday morning's aftershock that woke up many people across the Mid-Atlantic.

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