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N.Y. area flights delayed after Virginia quake

By Chris Erskine
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Flights from the New York area’s John F. Kennedy and Newark airports were being delayed while authorities inspected control towers and runways following the earthquake that struck the U.S. East Coast on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

“We’re going to hope to resume operations. We are talking hours, not longer,” a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said.

The 5.9 magnitude quake struck just before 2 p.m. East Coast time Tuesday. There were no initial reports of injuries or major damage in Washington, D.C. from the quake, which shook the city and surrounding areas.

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The U.S. Capitol building, the Pentagon and other buildings were evacuated, witnesses said.

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

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