WASHINGTON (AP) — The DC area has been shaken by a minor earthquake.
The quake hit at 5:04 a.m. EDT Friday and had a magnitude of 3.6.
Randy Baldwin, a physicist with U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center, says the quake was centered in the Rockville, Md., area.
There were no immediate reports of damage.
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