CLEBURNE, TEXAS—
Three quakes have hit the Cleburne area in six days.This morning's earthquake was magnitude 2.3 near Cleburne. A 2.6 quake was reported around 6pm Sunday in Parker. And a 2.8 earthquake hit near Cleburne Tuesday.
Suzanne Wilson says, "Now California doesn't have anything on us."
A 911 caller says, "I thought my house was going to shake off the foundation it was so bad."
City Manager Chester Nolan says, "We probably had 45 or 50 calls to 911 folks who some who recognized that it was an earthquake others were was it an explosion what was it and as a matter of fact we were as confused as the public was."
Mayor Ted Reynolds says, "See if we can get a little help to figure out the causes of these things whether we can expect more whether there's a possibility of anything more serious happening."
A longtime resident doubts that. He says, "They're drilling all around here cuz when Iwas a kid they were putting telephone polls through our property same thing boom boom think earthquake they were dynamiting."
Employees here at the diner are so busy running around not a single one felt the seismic activity but cleburne now has the attention of some local experts.
Doctor Brian Stump a seismologist at SMU says, "They're not uncharacteristic of earthquakes in the central part of the United States where we don't have big faults. We have stress or forces that build up in the crust of the earth."
Edith Burgess just feels left out. She says, "I didn't feel a thing in any of them, any of them ha ha ha."
