Map lists the magnitudes and locations of six earthquakes that struck in Irving and Dallas on January 6, 2015.(Photo: WFAA)
DALLAS — Six earthquakes — all centered near the old Texas Stadium site in Irving — jolted the Dallas area Tuesday.
No damage was reported from the temblors.
Two quakes measuring 3.5 magnitude event at 3:10 p.m. CT and a 3.6 magnitude tremor at 6:52 p.m. were "double event" at around 8:12 p.m. measuring 2.9 and 2.7 magnitude.
One witness in the Las Colinas area just west of Dallas referred to it as a "big bump."
Two quakes at 9:54 and 10:05 p.m. appeared to be smaller than earlier seismic events, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The 9:54 event was a 1.7 magnitude; the other was 2.4 magnitude.
The epicenters of all four events were clustered around the intersection of highways 183 and 114 in the suburb of Irving, west of Dallas.
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The six jolts bring the total number of earthquakes near Irving to 22 recorded since Nov. 1.
Marie Therese LaBrie Romanowski said on Facebook she was at home in Irving when she felt the tremor.
"I thought a car had struck my house," she said. "The windows rattled and the ceiling light fixtures shook. It was pretty awesome."
Many felt it at work.
"I have patients in the waiting room here at work and we all looked at each other and was like, 'What in the world?!'" said Aletha Allie Pate Martinez, who works at an eye clinic in Dallas. "Was looking to see if an 18-wheeler wrecked into our building!! That is what it felt like."
The quakes all happened within an area near the Trinity River that's seen a swarm of mild temblors in recent months.
USGS geophysicist Jana Pursley says Tuesday's quakes were the "largest since the earthquakes started happening there in the last year."
Since the 1970s, 24 earthquakes of at least 3.0 magnitude happened within 75 miles of Irving.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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