The U.S. Geological Survey reports that at 9:04 a.m. ET on May 10, a 4.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Knoxville and East Tennessee.
The epicenter of the earthquake is 30 miles southwest of Knoxville, close to Greenback, Tennessee. The USGS reports that the earthquake was only 15 miles deep, making it a shallow quake.
It was the first since a 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck Decatur in 2018 and the seventh earthquake of magnitude 4.0 or higher since 1900. The 1973 4.7-magnitude earthquake in Alcoa was the biggest to strike East Tennessee since 1900.
