SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — Less than a week after a small earthquake was felt in a Summerville, South Carolina neighborhood, another one has popped up roughly a mile and a half away.
Just before 2 p.m. on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported a very small magnitude 1.7 earthquake between Ashley River and Ashley River Road that runs roughly parallel to it. So far only two people claimed to have felt the earthquake through an online reporting tool put out by the USGS.
It turns out that it's the second earthquake of about the same size to rattle the same area. Five days earlier a fractionally larger magnitude 1.8 shake rumbled on the other side of the river in a local neighborhood. That quake was allegedly felt by as many as nine people in the area.
