3.3-magnitude quake rattled Irving Thursday evening, area’s second of the day
Around 10:10 tonight, some Irving and Northwest Dallas residents reported feeling the third quake of the day. But at the moment, the U.S. Geological Survey has been unable to locate it. These things tend to take a while: The quakes are small, and even with SMU’s equipment monitoring Irving, North Texas is still short the seismometers they have in, say, Southern California, where they’re used to this sort of shaking.
Update at 5:43 p.m.: Almost 12 hours to the minute after this morning’s quake woke up my neighborhood, there’s been another: a 3.3-magnitude temblor near the Las Colinas Country Club and the University of Dallas campus, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. And according to Twitter and the USGS and my now-shot nerves, this one, at 5:36 p.m., was felt from Bedford to Venus all the way to The Dallas Morning News newsroom in downtown Dallas.
This morning’s was a 2.7M in Northwest Dallas, not far from the recent round of temblors. But Thursday evening’s is our biggest in quite a while — since the 3.5M and 3.6M quakes in Irving on January 6.
One reader called the office moments after this evening’s rumbled through and said “it lifted the house off the foundation.” Man, I hope not.
Read more: http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/04/usgs-confirms-2-7-magnitude-earthquake-rattled-northwest-dallas-early-thursday.html/
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