The earth moved on Christmas day, but it had nothing to do with teenage pranksters.
Officials yesterday confirmed that the "boom" felt by residents in Laburnum Park early Saturday morning was a seismic event.
A very low-level seismic event.
It is called a "microseism," said Bill Farrar, spokesman for the Richmond's Office of Emergency Services.
"Something so low it doesn't even register on the Richter scale," he added.
That was the finding made by Virginia Tech engineers yesterday after examining readouts taken from three seismographs installed in the North Side earlier this month.
"Based on these findings and other factors, they believe the central Virginia region has been seismically active recently," Farrar said.
On Dec. 3, a weak earthquake measuring 2.2 on the Richter scale shook some Louisa and Goochland County residents. Residents in that quake reported hearing a boom that rattled some of their windows and dishes.
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