The earthquake that struck the East Coast Tuesday afternoon was centered in northern Virginia but rattled credit union people from North Carolina to New York.

CUNA said on its website that its offices were temporarily evacuated but that its staff has returned to the building.

A CU Times staffer in Raleigh, N.C., said she felt the quake but another staffer who was in the Metro subway under the Potomac River at the time the quake struck said he felt nothing and didn't know about it until he emerged and saw an email from a colleague.

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