HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) -- You may have not felt it, but according to USGS data Horry County experienced its first nearby earthquake in at least 125 years over the weekend.    

Experts say the magnitude 1.9 quake fell on a fault line which runs through Bucksport.

Paul Gayes is the executive director for the CCU Burroughs and Chapin Center for Marine and Wetlands Studies.

Gayes say earthquakes is something the upstate and areas in Charleston experience here and there but is unusual for the Grand Strand and Pee Dee.

"We have risks on the East Coast," he said. "There are active trenches in the Atlantic, in Puerto Rico, for example, but it's nowhere near as active or as frequent as you're seeing in in the Pacific."

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