4.1 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Tennessee, Felt Across Southern U.S.

4.1 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Tennessee, Felt Across Southern U.s.

It wasn’t your washing machine acting up or your dog losing its mind. That shake you felt Saturday morning? A legit 4.1 magnitude earthquake. In Tennessee.

At 9:04 a.m. ET, the ground under Greenback, Tennessee (about 30 miles south of Knoxville), decided it had something to say. And it said it loudly. The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed the quake, which hit at a depth of about 15.5 miles.

It wasn’t just a little local shimmy either. People from Atlanta to Asheville were suddenly in a real-life version of “Did the floor just move?”

“Felt like a truck hit my house,” said one East Tennessee resident on X (well, X, but we’re still calling it Twitter).

Over 23,000 people filed “Did You Feel It?” reports with the USGS. That’s not a blip — that’s a whole lotta shaking.

AP News reported no injuries or major damage. Just a region full of folks wondering what in Dolly Parton’s name just happened.

The East Tennessee Seismic Zone is no stranger to minor quakes, but a 4.1 gets attention. The last time people talked this much about Tennessee shaking, it involved Taylor Swift and a breakup album.

WLOS notes there’s about a 4% chance of another quake at this magnitude or stronger in the next week. Not exactly blockbuster odds — but hey, it’s 2025. Stranger things have happened.

So if you were sipping coffee and suddenly thought your caffeine hit way too fast, turns out it wasn’t the espresso. It was Mother Earth with a plot twist.