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		<title>Earthquake Rattles Cecil County Commissioners; County Building Evacuated</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took an act of God—an earthquake—to silence the Cecil County Commissioners Tuesday, as the quake shook chairs and made the county office building sway while the local lawmakers were meeting to discuss broadband/Internet issues. Commissioners, county employees and citizens all evacuated the building for about a half hour as county workers checked the building for possible damage. Richard Brooks, the county’s director of emergency services, was in the commissioners’ meeting room when the quake hit shortly before 2 p.m. He jumped up from his seat, saying, “This is not good,” before rushing out of the room to head down the street to the county’s emergency command post. Then a county employee rushed into the meeting room to announce, “We’re evacuating the building” and commissioners and others then walked the short distance to the main door of the building to wait outside for further instructions. County Administrator Al Wein was subsequently whisked away in an emergency services vehicle to visit the command post to obtain first-hand information on the situation. After returning to the county administration building, Wein said the earthquake, based in Mineral, VA, registered a 5.9 on the Richter scale of severity. The Cecil County health department building [&#8230;]]]></description>
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