MINERAL, VA - AUGUST 24: A sign on the door lets visitors know that City Hall, which shares a building with the local DMV office, was closed after the building was damged by yesterday's 5.8 earthquake August 24, 2011 in Mineral, Virginia. The epicenter of the quake, the East Coast's largest since 1944, was located a few miles outside of Mineral, a town of 430 people located about 50 miles west of Richmond. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)A sign on the door lets visitors know that the DMV was closed after the building was damged by a 5.8 earthquake on August 24, 2011 in Mineral, Virginia. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
RICHMOND, Va. — Nearly 600,000 Virginia residents are expected to participate in a multistate earthquake drill this week.
Gov. Bob McDonnell says many people didn’t know about earthquake safety when a magnitude-5.8 quake hit Louisa County on Aug. 23, 2011. The governor is encouraging all Virginians to participate in the Great SouthEast ShakeOut and learn about earthquake safety.
The drill is scheduled for 10:18 a.m. Thursday. Residents in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland and Washington, D.C., also will participate.
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