Day after earthquake in Kentucky, one detected in neighboring Illinois
There was an earthquake Monday night in Illinois, just a day after one was recorded in neighboring Kentucky.
The quake happened in Lerna, Illinois at 11:43 p.m. CDT.
That’s in southeastern Illinois, about an hour from Indiana and a little less than a four-hour drive from Louisville.
The U.S. Geological Survey said it registered at a magnitude of 3.3 at about six miles below the earth’s surface.
USGS said the quake would have caused some people to feel light to moderate shaking within a 155-mile radius.
Sunday morning, a magnitude-2.8 earthquake was detected about 20 miles south of Lexington, Kentucky.
The day before that, a magnitude-4.1 earthquake was detected in Tennessee about 30 miles south of Knoxville.
USGS estimated around 840,000 people would have felt light shaking from that quake.