5.9 Magnitude Earthquake Felt, Recorded in Cartersville

The 5.9 magnitude earthquake that was felt in the metro Atlanta area, including Cartersville, according to various reports. also recorded it on its seismograph.

"This is major news – the White House and the Pentagon have been evacuated and there are ," said Curator Julian Gray. "A magnitude 5.9 is huge and very rare in these , but they do occasionally happen...The and the seismic waves arrived at Tellus in just under two minutes."

Employees of Sharp Top Trees, just outside of Cartersville, reported "offices here near White rocking." It was the same story in and around Cartersville.

Here's what some of our readers said on our Facebook page:

• Tonya Ridley Hendrix: "It shook my house on Cassville RD at that time. I thought a tree limb or something fell on the house but I looked outside and nothing. SO I when I seen this, I knew what it was"

• Terry Elliott Bettis: "yes.on mac johnson.thought the dog was under the computer scratching.nope and the washer was not spinning.told my husband we just had an earthquake."

• Toni Woods Branyon: "Husband was in the car pick up line at the . He said he felt the car rock back and forth. Now he knows he's not going crazy because he wondered what was going on."

• Tanya Daniel Avera: "yes, felt it here in Cartersville - felt like everything was swaying back and forth for a few seconds - kinda freaked me out until i got online and realized that there had been an earthquake."

• Stephanie Keyros: "The shook about 2 feet for a couple of seconds"

Gray said also detected the 5.3 magnitude earthquake in Colorado last night, but it's "highly unlikely that these events are related.

"There was a shallow (2.5-mile deep) magnitude 5.3 earthquake in southern Colorado near the New Mexican border over night," Gray said earlier. "People as far away as in western Kansas and northern Colorado felt the quake."

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