ATLANTA — People across Georgia and Tennessee were woken up by a unusually strong earthquake early Wednesday morning.
Georgia occasionally feels weak earthquakes, but the one that hit this morning was much stronger.
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As soon as the quake hit, Channel 2's phones started ringing off the hook and our social media pages lit up.
Here are some of the reaction from Twitter:
Man we just had a freaking earthquake!!!!!! Hurricanes ok ‼️tornadoes fine ‼️but the ground shaking??? Nope not here for this!! Did you feel that ???
— Ryan Cameron (@ryancameron) December 12, 2018
Yes! Felt it at Floyd Medical Center in Rome, Ga. we’re on the 4th floor and our beds moved.
— Bella Gattino (@BellaGattino) December 12, 2018
Whoa!! I haven’t felt something like that since my California days! Definitely felt like an earthquake. Turn on ch 2 action news!
— Fred Blankenship (@FBlankenshipWSB) December 12, 2018
I'm from San Diego and know what earthquakes feel like. I swear at like 4:15 this morning I felt the same thing in Georgia. Unless I'm losing my mind.
— Bert Weiss (@BertShowBert) December 12, 2018
An earthquake in Atlanta? Never in my 21-years have I experienced a thing like that in Atlanta until today! Super weird. I thought it was over y’all! God was calling us back home when we least expected it. 😂😂😂
— Mary-Pat C. Hector (@MaryPatHector) December 12, 2018
Just felt an #earthquake in Atlanta! Felt a few in LA but this is a first!
— Susan Hendricks (@SusanHendricks) December 12, 2018
Exactly...like, when the hell did GA start getting earthquakes? Wonder when our last recorded one was. <a href="https://t.co/P4S7i6rdBR">https://t.co/P4S7i6rdBR</a>
Exactly...like, when the hell did GA start getting earthquakes? Wonder when our last recorded one was. https://t.co/P4S7i6rdBR
— Keri Hilson (@KeriHilson) December 12, 2018
99.9% sure we just had an earthquake in Atlanta!
— Aaron Blair (@Blair_Force1) December 12, 2018
Either Santa just landed on the roof in a helicopter, or I woke up to an earthquake in Atlanta.
— Tom Hart (@tom_hart) December 12, 2018
So, that was the first earthquake I’ve ever felt... and in all places, Tennessee? Felt like a 7 or 8, what do you guys think?
— Justin Morhardt (@justinmoe1) December 12, 2018
We just had an earthquake here in ATL or I'm trippin. Our house just legit shook.
— Justin Chandler (@KOSDFF) December 12, 2018
Up feeding the baby and just felt an earthquake. In East Tennessee?!
— Rachel Held Evans (@rachelheldevans) December 12, 2018
Earthquakes in Georgia. Yikes!
— Jamal Anderson (@jamthedirtybird) December 12, 2018
Earthquake in Atlanta. Folks are really still celebrating that @ATLUTD championship aren’t they?
— JoBen Rivera (@jobenarmando) December 12, 2018
I literally got our home insurance set up yesterday and he talked me out of needing earthquake coverage 🤔
— Tim (@TheBoatMAN95) December 12, 2018
Earthquake in Atlanta? It’s only Wednesday guys
— LO 🏁 (@1Lovee_GiAna) December 12, 2018
I learned today that at 4 in the morning a 4.5-year old shaking your bed and a 4.4 earthquake are virtually indistinguishable.
— danielrochberg (@danielrochberg) December 12, 2018
I’m moving to the moon, if #Georgia ain’t safe from a #earthquake nobody safe 👀 Woke up like .... pic.twitter.com/LJnzdo1Goq
— Dre (@DREIAM) December 12, 2018
I lived in the Midwest for 36 yrs and never once experienced an earthquake...
— Justin Breckan (@justinbreckan) December 12, 2018
I have lived in Georgia for 4 months and now I experience one?!?
Californians reaction to the #earthquake in GA pic.twitter.com/F1lV9to970
— Roger Ramirez (@Ragingangel13_) December 12, 2018
California watching Georgia freak out over an #Earthquake pic.twitter.com/rDFe9dLpvk
— 6’7-Eleven Inches (@LebandzJames2) December 12, 2018
Ok Atlanta, if we're going to have earthquakes, have a summer that lasts half the year, and horrible, horrible traffic, you need to somehow get us some gorgeous oceanfront beaches to compensate.
— Untitled Fall Username (@WilliamMosher) December 12, 2018
Me sleeping through that earthquake pic.twitter.com/yKKFOJvtim
— 𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕖 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕪 (@catieleary) December 12, 2018
This further proves that I can sleep through anything. Slept through an entire earthquake lol pic.twitter.com/kQkffCtcw4
— Sïenna Brown. (@ItsJewsie) December 12, 2018
The 4.4 #earthquake at 4:30 this mornin’ had me like..... grateful all is well 🙌🏼 #EarthquakeAtlanta #whatthewhat 😳 pic.twitter.com/QsPMltoFYx
— Kim Fields (@KimVFields) December 12, 2018
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