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A cluster of earthquakes have struck near the U.S.-Mexico border, including ones with a 4.5 and 4.7 magnitude, according to the United States Geological Survey.
A minor earthquake shook the North Lake Tahoe region early Friday afternoon.
IRMO — Did you feel it? The ground near Columbia shook the morning of May 22, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A magnitude 1.91 earthquake hit about six miles north of Irmo around 11:41 a.m., according to the South Carolina Emergency Management Division.
When the house started shaking, Mandy Evenson picked up her 7-year-old son and dashed outside. “It was a really hard, sharp shake,” she said. “It felt like I was in a snow globe — like somebody grabbed me and really shook me back and forth.”
Nearly 200,000 people in Southern California felt shaking after hundreds of earthquakes rattled the Imperial County desert over the weekend, with the strongest earthquake reported as a magnitude 4.7.