A magnitude 5.0 earthquake hit the Texas Panhandle early Thursday— the strongest tremor the region has seen in more than 120 years.
The quake shook parts of rural Texas at 5:21 a.m. local time, with shocks felt in Amarillo, Texas, as well as Oklahoma City and as far east as Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to the US Geological Survey.
The quake, with a reported depth of around 3.5 miles, was the strongest in the region since 1900, Fox Weather reported. It is only the fourth quake of magnitude 4.0 or stronger in that time, too.
The quake’s epicenter was around 23 miles from Spearman, a city with a population of around 2,800 people.
There were no initial reports of injuries or damage, but Amarillo residents rushed to comment in a local Facebook group about being woken by shaking.
“I felt it! Woke me out of my sleep!” one wrote.
“I felt it too, but wasn’t sure if it was my cat getting off the bed jumping!!” another reacted.
“I felt something, but I was like, maybe I’m trippin’” a third wrote.
“Felt it in Hereford. Shook the whole house,” a local said.
While some said they were “freaked” out by the sudden shaking, others tried to make light of it.
“Someone ate the lettuce from Taco Bell,” one person quipped of the outbreak of cyclosporiasis.
