A slideshow video taken within the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian) in Washington DC in the Fall of 2007.
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WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of people evacuated buildings across the East Coast on Tuesday after a moderate earthquake in Virginia that was also felt as far south as Chapel Hill, NC No tsunami warning was issued, but air and train traffic was disrupted across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic. In the Washington, DC, area, parts of the Pentagon, White House and Capitol were among the areas evacuated. All memorials and monuments on the National Mall were evacuated and closed. At the Pentagon, a low rumbling built and built to the point that the building shook. People ran into the corridors of the government’s biggest building and as the shaking continued there were shouts of “Evacuate! Evacuate!” The quake even broke a water main inside the Pentagon, flooding parts of two floors, NBC reported. Initial damage reports from Washington included the central tower at the National Cathedral and Ecuador’s embassy. Three pinnacles on the 30-story-tall tower broke off. Centered some 90 miles south of the nation’s capital, the quake was a magnitude 5.9, the US Geological Survey said. Two nuclear reactors near the epicenter were taken offline as a precaution, officials said. No damage was reported at either. Earthquake strikes Washington DC 5.8 capital evacuated Strikes mineral, va virginia DC, NY areas evacuate as earth quake felt across East pentagon earthquake washington dc dc capital 5.3 tremors 5.8 5.9 3.6 magnitude BREAKING NEWS us earthquake 5.8 hits washington dc aria …
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Some cool Washington DC images:

National Cathedral (Washington DC)

Image by ~MVI~ (b-daying in pagudpud)
The main altar.

Nikon D40 (US International Visitors’ Program, August 2008)