The land near the Washington Monument has sunk by 2 millimeters, according to a team of federal land measurement experts surveying the Mall this week.
The discovery is a bit unexpected; the area typically sinks annually at rates in the tenths of a millimeter. But whether the new sinkage is due to last summer’s 5.8-magnitude earthquake is still up in the air.
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