Northwest Georgia Experienced Three Earthquakes

The earth is rumbling lately in North Georgia.

If you were traveling through Dalton on Wednesday or Sunday, you might've experienced an earthquake.

A micro earthquake with the magnitude 2.7 occurred one mile west-northwest of Dalton on Wednesday, according to Southeast U.S. Seismic Networks. The hypocentral depth was three miles.

Another earthquake occured in Dalton and Trion, GA on Sunday with a 1.8 magnitude. It happened at 9:36 p.m. (CST). It occured three miles west-southwest of Dalton with the hypocentral depth of nine miles.

According to the AJC, there was a third, measuring 1.8, hit at 10:36 p.m. Sunday in almost exactly the same spot in Dalton as the first one. Julian Gray, curator and resident geologist at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, suspects the third earthquake was an aftershock of the first, the AJC reports.

USGS officials insist the earthquakes do not indicate more to come with larger magnitude. The earthquakes are random.

According to the USGS, the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone is one of the most active earthquake areas in the southeast, but it is not known for large earthquakes.

The largest one on record is the 4.6 magnitude quake that hit April 29, 2003, near Fort Payne, Alabama, according to the USGS earthquake site.

Anyone who experiences an earthquake in Georgia is asked to contact the survey at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/