Surveyors checking whether cracked Washington Monument sank or tilted in wake of earthquake

WASHINGTON — The Washington Monument cracked and crumbled when a 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook the nation’s capital last year. But did it sink or tilt? A team of government surveyors is trying to find out. On Tuesday, surveyors were on the grounds of the 555-foot-tall obelisk, taking measurements from several long-established points in the ground known as bench marks where survey work has been done in the past. They’re not expecting to find any major changes — perhaps fractions of an inch. But the findings could affect plans for...