No official reports of damage from Friday's quake

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Anthony Hawks of Newbern said these cracks were a result of Friday morning's quake. Although there were no official reports of any damage from the quake, many area residents said they felt the tremors.
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There has not been any official damage reported due to the earthquake that was felt at 12:12 a.m. on Friday morning.

The quake registered a 3.4 on the Richter scale in the preliminary report. It was centered 4 miles north of Dyersburg just off Highway 78 at a depth of 6 miles.

The United States Geological Survey's community Internet intensity map shows reports of weak to light shaking in the area.

Emergency 911 Communications Director Mark Grant said there were no reports of damage in Dyer County. However, he did say there were a lot of calls from people wondering what was going on.

Grant also said this was the second earthquake in the region, which registered at least a 3.0, in the last 18 months.

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It was felt on Simpson Hill Road!

-- Posted by coal296 on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 12:01 PM

Repent Dyersburgians. Isn't that what we're supposed to think? I mean, 12:12 exactly!!! Come on!

-- Posted by ExPatDyerburgian on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 12:58 PM

I live right off Highway 78 in Palmer Subdivision and I felt it real good. We actually thought someone had hit our house with a vehicle the tremor was so hard!!

-- Posted by graycepooh on Sun, Nov 8, 2009, at 5:31 PM

We all felt it hard over by the Dyersburg Fabrics..sounded just like a herd of fat woman running across the floor & falling..

-- Posted by Rockzie on Mon, Nov 9, 2009, at 11:25 PM