OK, we all laughed at the pictures of the tipped lawn chair and the tilted picture and the fallen water bottle. But the 5.8-strength East Coast earthquake this week cracked and broke stones at a historic house of worship: the Washington National Cathedral in the nation's capital.
At the massive, gothic-style church, three of the four pinnacles broke on the main "Gloria in Excelsis" tower. A finial, or decorative stone, fell from the northwest tower with such force that it sank into the lawn. Cracks opened in upper-level floors and in the flying buttresses supporting the apse at the church's east end.
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