Don't fell bad OK, GA shaking to, "Small quake jolts Dalton, north Georgia"

A small earthquake jolted Dalton -- yes Dalton -- around noon, according to officials at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville. "The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 2.7 and was centered 1 mile west-southwest and occurred about 5 miles deep," said Julian Gray, the museum's curator and resident geologist. "These relatively small earthquakes are not that rare, but they are exciting when they do occur." The area has periodic -- about every five to 10 years -- minor earthquakes such as the one that struck Dalton, Gray said.