Sophomore Tasha McCoy woke up to a shaking bed and ran to her mother’s bedroom to see if she was awake.
“I went back to my room and jumped onto my bed,” said McCoy, “Then I thought someone was under my bed!”
According to KNWA News Online, Brady Cox, an assistant civil engineer professor at the University of Arkansas who studies earthquakes, said the town was experiencing the aftershocks of the Greenbrier, Arkansas earthquake.
“I was so scared I almost cried!” said McCoy, “This was my first earthquake.”
The U.S. Geological Survery recorded the first Greenbrier earthquake at 11 p.m. to be of 4.7 quake. A few minutes later, another earthquake was recorded in the same area at a 3.8 magnitude.
Reports of shakes and quakes were recorded in four other states including Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, and Mississippi from the 4.7 magnitude earthquake. No injuries or damages were reported from the quakes.