An earthquake occurred in Polk County at 11:14 a.m. Aug. 14 around 4.3 miles from Columbus, Polk County Emergency Management said in a Facebook post minutes later.

It was a magnitude 2.7 earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s website.

No injuries or damage has been reported, Polk County Emergency Management said in its post.

However, 554 people across 50 ZIP codes reported feeling the quake, some of them farther away than Asheville and Greenville, U.S. Geological Survey maps and data show.

This isn’t the first earthquake to hit Western North Carolina recently.

On Aug. 9 and 12, three earthquakes, two of them magnitude 1.8 and the other magnitude 2.1, were recorded to the west of Rosman.

But though those may sound like they would be comparable to Aug. 14’s magnitude 2.7

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