Earthquake Jolts Dillsburg Church
Posted by Terry White on November 13, 2009
This is an excerpt from a story in today’s local paper from Dillsburg, Pa., where George Traub is pastor of the Hope Grace Brethren Church. To read the entire article, click here.
Quaking Dillsburg seeks answers
by Greg Gross
At first, Rebekah Wyman thought the rumbles were caused by the boys who were in the other part of a partitioned-off part of the room.
But upon further investigation during a bible study session in October 2008, Wyman, and the other girls who had attended the study at Hope Grace Brethren Church in Carroll Township, found out that it was actually a small earthquake that had rocked the building.
“We thought it was the guys and they thought it was us,” the Northern York High School senior said as she recalled the first time she felt an earthquake.
Since October 3, 2008, the township, just southeast of the York County Borough of Dillsburg, has been hit with a swarm of small earthquakes, said Jeri Jones of Jones Geological Services in Spring Grove.
A number of the quakes’ epicenters have been just down the street from the church at the intersection of Old York and Warrington roads.
Ironically, Wyman said, the church’s youth group is called “Epicenter,” Wyman said with a laugh as she enjoyed coffee with her mother, Kimberly Wyman, also of Carroll Township, at Coffee Express in Dillsburg. The younger girl said the tremors aren’t felt at their home, which is to the west of Route 15.
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