EDITORIAL: Tremors shake up a sleepy summer afternoon in Maine.(Editorial)

Aug. 25--Mainers know what to do in a blizzard. We have a lot of experience with ice storms, flooding and cold snaps. But aside from a little beach erosion, we don't have much experience dealing with the earth when it moves. That was until Tuesday. A 5.8 magnitude earthquake was registered in Virginia, shaking buildings and rattling windows as far away as Canada. That meant it was noticed by some -- but by no means all -- here in Maine, leading to the evacuation of at least one tall building in Portland, and giving people something other than the Red Sox to talk about at the office water coolers. It even knocked the revolution in Libya off the cable news networks, no easy …