Epicenter--Puts Mineral on the Map
Mineral, VA--Being at the epicenter of an earthquake felt from Florida to Canada is one way to get noticed. On August 23rd at 1:51:04pm a 5.8 magnitude earthquake gave Mineral it's, "15 minutes of fame." Visiting the area a fews days later it looked like  the  town's new found fame had not gone to anyones' head.

Downtown Mineral. All the brinck buildings to the right sustained some damage requiring a lane closure. You can see workers on the white building to the right foreground.........

A bad day for chimney's. Here Mother Nature scored a Hat Trick taking out three chimney's on the same house.........

The top of the brick facade of this downtown building came down and other sections pulled away. This business will be closed for a while but..........................

.....adversity can and is overcome. The sign on the supports holding up the front wall of Main Street Plumbing announces, "Open for Business."