Washington is having a bad month.. Archive: https://archive.today/K0i47 From the post: >>Reports of a massive explosion in Washington state sent residents in the Pacific Northwest into a state of confusion Monday morning. The US Geological Survey (USGS) sent out an alert just before 11.30am ET, warning that an explosion with the force of a magnitude 3.0 earthquake has just taken place near the town of Concrete. USGS quickly retracted the false explosion warning and reclassified the seismic event as a magnitude 2.9 earthquake, less than 70 miles north of Seattle. A magnitude 2.6 earthquake was detected in the same location at 10.06am, but there have not been any reports of damage or injuries following either minor quake.