Residents make fun of themselves hilariously on twitter after earthquake scare

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Do you know how to tell an earth quake or what to do incase of one?People across Georgia were woken up by an earthquake. Residents in Tennessee and Georgia got a big surprise Wednesday morning.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake happened around 4:15 a.m. near Decatur, Tennessee. It had a magnitude of 4.4. An aftershock of 3.3 magnitude happened about 15 minutes later.

Confused residents in the region took to social media, including Twitter, to confirm the earthquake.

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Geophysicist Robert Sanders from the U.S. Geological Survey revealed that aftershocks would be possible throughout the day after the quake.

There have been several small earthquakes in northwest Georgia over the past few years, including a 1.9 magnitude near Villanow, in Walker County, in August.

A 2.7 quake was reported in Catoosa County, near Fort Oglethorpe, in January, and a 2.3 hit Trion, in Chattooga County, in November 2017. In July 2017, a 2.2 quake was registered just north of LaFayette in Walker County.

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According to the USGS, the Eastern Tennessee seismic zone is one of the most active earthquake areas in the Southeast. The zone extends across Tennessee and northwestern Georgia into northeastern Alabama.

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The earthquake was the second strongest on record in East Tennessee, according to the USGS. The strongest was a magnitude 4.7 near Maryville in 1973.

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