For the second day in a row, an earthquake has rattled homes in West Texas. Many people in North Texas also felt this one.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there was a magnitude 5.1 earthquake at 9:28 a.m. on Friday.The FOX 4 weather team says the earthquakes on Friday and Monday were one of the strongest in Texas history.The epicenter was near Hermleigh, Texas, which is about 200 miles west of Fort Worth.It’s the same area where a smaller magnitude 2.5 earthquake hit on Thursday and a magnitude 4.9 earthquake hit on Monday.Friday morning's earthquake was originally listed as having a magnitude of 4.
"They're like when you when you drop a rock in a pond. You watch that wave, and it gets smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller the further it propagates away. That same thing is happening in the Earth with the seismic waves. We just can't see them because the motion is so small, but we can feel," he said. A Scurry County judge made a disaster declaration after Friday's earthquake caused damage across the area.
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