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Local news clip, same event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePv9QAdD20U
DALTON, GA - "A 2.7 magnitude quake rocked the Dalton area just before noon Wednesday. While some people in Dalton were pretty sure the rumble was an earthquake, others were convinced it was something else.
"Chances are it might have been an earthquake, but maybe it was some big monster outside that's coming to get us all," Jonathan Marks jokes about the magnitude 2.7 quake, but he wasn't the only one who was curious about what caused the ground to shake beneath his feet. The US Geological Survey didn't officially deem the shake, a quake until 2 hours after people say they felt the ground rattle and heard a loud boom in the air.
"I thought it was kind of like a huge explosion or a sonic boom because there was a little noise at first and then a loud explosion and I felt it right between my shoulders it was like it come from the air," said Mary Ellen Gurley, an employee at Dalton State College.
The USGS says Northwest Georgia is not an area prone to quakes. The largest earthquake in our seismic zone was on April 29th, 2003. It was a 4.6 magnitude near Fort Payne, Alabama. So if you had never felt one until Wednesday, you probably wouldn't have known what it was.
"I lived in North Carolina several years ago and felt one there. I guess it's not that different from a sonic boom or an explosion or something but to me, I thought this one was an earthquake, I guess having felt it before," said Mike Brown from Dalton.
Though the Dalton Police Department was flooded with calls, luckily no one was injured in the quake.
According to the USGS, the closest, most recent earthquake besides this one, happened Tuesday. A 2.0 magnitude earthquake hit Maryville, Tennessee around 8:30 p.m"
http://www.newschannel9.com/video/v/1266807080001/
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These mystery booms are about as elusive as the Loch Ness Monster or Big Foot when it comes to anybody capturing the event as its occuring, on camera @_@ dehh
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Yesca18 November 10, 2011 12:19:53 PM CET
HAARP! I , just yesterday, took a picture of a strange cloud (looked just like a sign of HAARP) Then also I saw a wall of rolling clouds hours later, I kept telling my husband that I bet we will have an earthquake in the next few days Then my friend who lives near Dalton, GA said she had an Earthquake! (I live in Ft. Mitchell, AL. Down the road from Ft. Benning.) I don't believe in coincidences.
