DALLAS – Four earthquakes — all centered near the old Texas Stadium site in Irving — jolted North Texans on Tuesday.
The most recent quakes at 8:11 and 8:12 p.m. were called a "double event" by the U.S. Geological Survey, and were measured at 2.9 and 2.7 magnitude, respectively.
One witness in Las Colinas referred to it as a "big bump."
Those tremors were preceded by two larger quakes: a 3.5 magnitude event at 3:10 p.m. and a 3.6 magnitude tremor at 6:52 p.m.
"That one seemed MUCH stronger than the one this afternoon!" wrote Rebecca Barbee in Lakewood on the WFAA Facebook page, referring to the early evening quake.
The epicenters of all four events were clustered around the intersection of Highways 183 and 114.
"Scared the hell out of me!" said Ricky Vaughn in the Dallas Medical District.
Viewers in Mesquite; Farmers Branch; McKinney; Richardson; Carrollton; Lewisville; The Colony; Plano; Coppell; Sachse; Wylie; South Garland; Frisco; Mesquite; Rowlett; and more reported feeling the earth move when the 3.6 quake hit on Tuesday evening.
"It shook our whole building here at Love Field," wrote Robin Metheny.
The 3:10 p.m. tremor originated at a depth of 3.2 miles. News 8 received reports from viewers that it was felt as far away as Euless and Wylie.
The four jolts bring the total number of earthquakes near Irving to 20 recorded since November 1, 2014. Tuesday night's 3.6 event was the strongest.
Marie Therese LaBrie Romanowski said on Facebook she was in Irving at 183 and Esters near DFW Airport.
"I thought a car had struck my house," she said. "The windows rattled and the ceiling light fixtures shook. It was pretty awesome."
Many felt it at work.
"I have patients in the waiting room here at work and we all looked at each other and was like, 'What in the world?!'" said Aletha Allie Pate Martinez, who works at an eye clinic off of U.S. 75 and Walnut Hill. "Was looking to see if an 18-wheeler wrecked into our building!! That is what it felt like."
Jessica Zavala was in Farmers Branch and she said the afternoon event felt a lot longer than previous tremors.
"I had enough time to wonder if it was our garage opening and my dog to run outside!" she said. "What the heck is going on?!?"
Irving was hit by 15 earthquakes in 2014.
"The previous magnitude 3.3 in November occurred on a Saturday evening; a lot of people were at home," said SMU professor Heather Deshon. "This event occurred in the middle of the afternoon; a lot of people were sitting in front of computers in high-rises throughout the Dallas metropolitan area, so that is going to affect how many people felt the event."
Tuesday night's 3.6 magnitude event matches the power of two earthquakes recorded in Azle, and falls just short of two 3.7-magnitude quakes logged near Mineral Wells.
Researchers at SMU just placed sensors in Irving to study the flurry of earthquakes.
The most recent quakes at 8:11 and 8:12 p.m. were called a "double event" by the U.S. Geological Survey, and were measured at 2.9 and 2.7 magnitude, respectively.
One witness in Las Colinas referred to it as a "big bump."
Those tremors were preceded by two larger quakes: a 3.5 magnitude event at 3:10 p.m. and a 3.6 magnitude tremor at 6:52 p.m.
"That one seemed MUCH stronger than the one this afternoon!" wrote Rebecca Barbee in Lakewood on the WFAA Facebook page, referring to the early evening quake.
The epicenters of all four events were clustered around the intersection of Highways 183 and 114.
"Scared the hell out of me!" said Ricky Vaughn in the Dallas Medical District.
Viewers in Mesquite; Farmers Branch; McKinney; Richardson; Carrollton; Lewisville; The Colony; Plano; Coppell; Sachse; Wylie; South Garland; Frisco; Mesquite; Rowlett; and more reported feeling the earth move when the 3.6 quake hit on Tuesday evening.
"It shook our whole building here at Love Field," wrote Robin Metheny.
The 3:10 p.m. tremor originated at a depth of 3.2 miles. News 8 received reports from viewers that it was felt as far away as Euless and Wylie.
The four jolts bring the total number of earthquakes near Irving to 20 recorded since November 1, 2014. Tuesday night's 3.6 event was the strongest.
Marie Therese LaBrie Romanowski said on Facebook she was in Irving at 183 and Esters near DFW Airport.
"I thought a car had struck my house," she said. "The windows rattled and the ceiling light fixtures shook. It was pretty awesome."
Many felt it at work.
"I have patients in the waiting room here at work and we all looked at each other and was like, 'What in the world?!'" said Aletha Allie Pate Martinez, who works at an eye clinic off of U.S. 75 and Walnut Hill. "Was looking to see if an 18-wheeler wrecked into our building!! That is what it felt like."
Jessica Zavala was in Farmers Branch and she said the afternoon event felt a lot longer than previous tremors.
"I had enough time to wonder if it was our garage opening and my dog to run outside!" she said. "What the heck is going on?!?"
Irving was hit by 15 earthquakes in 2014.
"The previous magnitude 3.3 in November occurred on a Saturday evening; a lot of people were at home," said SMU professor Heather Deshon. "This event occurred in the middle of the afternoon; a lot of people were sitting in front of computers in high-rises throughout the Dallas metropolitan area, so that is going to affect how many people felt the event."
Tuesday night's 3.6 magnitude event matches the power of two earthquakes recorded in Azle, and falls just short of two 3.7-magnitude quakes logged near Mineral Wells.
Researchers at SMU just placed sensors in Irving to study the flurry of earthquakes.
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