Mineral, Virginia
At 1:51 p.m. on August 23, 2011, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake was centered   south-southwest of Mineral. The center of the earthquake was  underground. According to the Associated Press, it "forced evacuations of all the monuments on the National Mall in Washington and rattled nerves from Florida to Canada". The roof of Mineral's town hall collapsed. three of the six schools in the county were heavily damaged. No one died, and some people had minor injuries.