Shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday, officials with the United States Geological Survey reported a 3.0 magnitude quake seven miles from Goose Creek.
Authorities placed Summerville closest to the quake.
Some who live in Berkeley County say they did feel the earthquake, too, taking to social media to describe it.
Warren Adair of Goose Creek wrote:
According to the South Carolina Emergency Management Division, in 1886 Charleston and surrounding area was the epicenter of the largest earthquake ever on the east coast. It was a 7.3 and felt from Chicago to Cuba.
Aftershocks, some of them large enough to be damaging by themselves, reportedly continued for years.
USGS officials say in recent decades, smaller earthquakes that cause little or no damage have been felt roughly once a year in coastal South Carolina and a small part of adjacent Georgia.
For additional information on the earthquake, click here.
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