Updated December 13, 2018

It’s been 45 years since Tennesseans have felt an earthquake as strong as the one that rattled the eastern part of the state and surrounding areas yesterday morning.

The earthquake has been confirmed by the U.S. Geological Survey.

At 4:14am yesterday, a magnitude 4.4 earthquake registered about 7 miles northeast of Decatur, Tennessee and could be felt as far away as Atlanta, almost 200 miles away. About 13 minutes later, a 3.3 magnitude aftershock shook the same area of Meigs County.

Two more aftershocks followed about an hour later, with the first registering 1.3 on on the Richter Scale at 5am and the second at 1.4 a little more than a half hour later.