RICHMOND, Va. -- The United States Geological Survey has confirmed a 2.1 magnitude earthquake struck Central Virginia late Monday night. According to the USGS the quake happened just north of Glen Allen at 10:46 p.m.
Tunstall Willis, in Henrico's West End, joined the hundreds of CBS 6 viewers who shared on social media that they felt the shaking.
"I actually went upstairs and I was working and had my window open. I heard thunder or what I thought was thunder," Willis recalled.
Willis said the shaking of her home went very quickly.
The USGS website showed residents self-reported feeling the earthquake as far east as Tappahannock and south to Midlothian.
Virginia Tech geosciences professor Martin Chapman told CBS 6 that Richmond is in the Central Virginia Seismic Zone.
"You might see another earthquake about this style or are smaller in the same area here in the next few days," Chapman said.
Chapman has worked in seismology at Virginia Tech since the mid-1980s and has been a professor in the faculty since the mid-1990s.
"That we know that Central Virginia is an active area, we could say the probability of a damaging earthquake is larger in the area around Central Virginia than it would be down on the North Carolina/Virginia border," Chapman said.
Monday's earthquake paled in comparison to the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that rattled Louisa County in 2011.
The quake injured some including students at Louisa County High School and destroyed buildings.
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