Earthquake rattles GA/TN region, Many heard the tremor, thought it was a bomb or a plane, Homes rattled

“I thought somebody set a bomb outside our bedroom window it was so loud,” another person wrote on Twitter. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit at about 11:45 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 20.

It shook the ground roughly 10 miles northeast of Eton, a town near the Tennessee border. Earlier this week, a 2.1-magnitude earthquake was reported near Riceville, Tennessee, and a 2.3-magnitude earthquake hit in the McMinnville, Tennessee, area.

Residents in North Georgia told FOX 5 that the earthquake shook their houses and rattled things up. Officials have not reported any injuries caused by the earthquake.