pepco power outage

Pepco, the regional utilities, said more than 240,000 customers without electricity, and because of the damage and power outages are frequent, yet there is no timetable when power is restored by Pepco spokesman Clay Anderson. The damage is not limited to fallen lines, but many were damaged transformers and electric poles are actually damaged.Extensive power cuts and water conservation must continue to commute daily, and prevent the Sunday after the storm knocked out power to more parts of Prince George's County, Montgomery County and throughout the region, Washington.Substation is not beating down the power lines and electricity to more than 228,000 customers back "several days of effort," Pepco officials said on Monday.

Around 10:30, Monday, 20 hours of disruption in many areas, 177,535 Pepco customers remained without service in Montgomery County, 30,462 Pepco customers were left without service, Prince George's County, said David Morehead, a spokesman for the utility.Mandatory water restrictions were introduced in the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission customers on Sunday evening after the power plant does not River Road, 70 percent of water used by WSSC 1.8 million customers in Montgomery and Prince George.Pepco power plant for five hours to recover, but the ban on outdoor water use and conservation of statutory restrictions on the use of the premises shall remain in force while the plant worked to restore the entire production and processing, officials said.

earthquake in maryland

Maryland-A-3, 6 earthquake near Gaithersburg, Maryland, the area just after 17:00 ET on Friday, with the U.S. Geological Survey.The quake was the center, about 20 miles northwest of Washington, said the USGS.The earthquake was the largest in the region since 1974 - and were first registered more than 3.0 on the Richter scale, the time, "said Amy Vaughan, a geophysicist for USGS National Earthquake Information Center."This is an important event in the region," he said.Roughly an hour after the quake, "said Vaughan, more than 5500 people reported feeling that the whole of Maryland, near Washington and the states, including West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware."It was very hard, like a plane is very low.

I've never felt anything," said Anne Ngunjiri, 30, Gaithersburg. "I was shaken out of bed. All my neighbors awake. Once finished, I thought it might be an earthquake, and was lying in bed, and I hope there is no Aftershocks. "DE Geological speaking said that he was "not unexpected" in a 3.6-magnitude earthquake to get."Sometimes things do not let this ten Rocky Mountains to the east of, even if it's really not a plate boundary, where we wait ... THAT earthquakes IP addresses are at the moment, the continent was formed. There are some minor bugs to die there this area, "he said.Vaughan said Major structural damage is not likely, but people do not Aftershocks of experience in the next few days, one week after the quake Two.Washington, Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency said no injuries were reported property damage.