Earthquakes Today reports reveal that temblors struck Avalon, California and Lenoir, North Carolina and both occurred in the very early hours such that many didn't feel the ground shaking.
Nevertheless, the only problem that the earthquakes today posed was the difficulty of some to get back to sleep after getting awakened by the grumbling of the ground.
According to Los Angeles Times, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that an quake struck 13 miles from Avalon, California at around 2 in the morning and the epicentre was 17 miles from newport Beach and 19 miles from Costa Mesa.
The quake was a shallow magnitude 3.1 so it didn't really caused a huge stir among the residents of the area.
No reports or updates documented injuries or damages following the earthquake in Avalon.
Meanwhile, in Lenoir, North Carolina, several people woke up to the movement of the ground at around 1:44 a.m.
The earthquake that struck the area was reportedly a 3.0 magnitude and it was entered around 10 miles north of Lenoir, reports WCNC.com.
People residing in the Happy Valley and Buffalo Cover areas of Caldwell County said they felt the temblor, along with people in Avery, Ashe and Watauga.
Over 100 callers told local dispatchers that they felt the ground shaking. Some even claimed that they thought a plane crashed around that time, while others said they thought there was an explosion nearby.
"It woke me out of bed. At first I thought it was an earthquake, but then I said, 'This ain't California,'" local resident Jordan Norman said. "It's something I never imagined would happen in little old Lenoir."
Fortunately, amid the earthquake, nothing was reportedly damaged and nobody was injured.
Based on a USGS report on earthquakes in North and South Carolina and adjacent parts of Georgia and Tennessee, small earthquakes with little to no damage were felt in the said areas since 1776.
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