31-05-2025
2nd earthquake in 2 days rattles North Carolina mountains
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Two earthquakes shook the North Carolina mountains two days in a row on Friday and Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Both quakes were relatively small — 2.4 magnitude on Friday and 2.1 on Saturday morning — and both were centered in the same area of Rosman, North Carolina, in Transylvania County. The earthquakes were also near Lake Toxaway.
The Saturday quake hit just before 2:20 a.m. about 30 miles east-northeast of Hendersonville.
The Friday earthquake struck just after 3:10 a.m., nearly 5 miles from Roseman or about 28 miles north-northeast of Hendersonville.
The shaking from each quake did not travel far — with few reports of those who felt the earthquakes.
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The Friday quake was felt about 25 miles to the east — in an area south of Hendersonville and near East Flat Rock.
Saturday morning's quake was felt about 31 miles away, just inside Georgia near Clayton.
The pair of quakes happened in the same area and about 50 miles from a 4.1 magnitude earthquake on May 10 that centered just over the North Carolina line in Tennessee. That earthquake was widely felt by people as far away as Charlotte in North Carolina and in other states.
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Inland North and South Carolina, and adjacent parts of Georgia and Tennessee, have experienced small earthquakes and rarely suffered damage from larger ones since 1776, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The inland Carolinas region is far from the nearest plate boundaries, which are in the center of the Atlantic Ocean and in the Caribbean Sea.
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