Ten years after 9/11, Tuesday’s earthquake in Washington, D.C., brought back a flood of memories of the terrorist attack.

Many people who felt shaking assumed that another attack, rather than an earthquake, was to blame. 

As The Washington Post puts it, “in Washington, 10 years later, every day is Sept. 12.”


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