Another 4.2 aftershock rattled Utah at 7:41 a.m. Thursday morning, just two days after a similar earthquake aftershock occurred on April 14, reports KUTV.
While a 4.2 is considered “light” on the Richter magnitude scale, this size earthquake causes noticeable shaking of indoor objects and is felt by most people in the affected area.
These tremors are the aftermath of a larger 5.7 earthquake that struck northern Utah on March 18.
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Residents can feel the aftershocks almost a month later in the Wasatch Front region, based on the several reports on Twitter and an AP news report on Tuesday.
More than 1,000 aftershocks have been reported in the weeks since the initial earthquake.
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Officials at the University of Utah Seismograph Stations promised locals that this morning and previous quakes were the normal effects of an earthquake of the magnitude experienced in March.
No injuries were reported in the initial earthquake, and buildings withstood minor damage according to KUTV.
"A lot of you are wondering if this is normal," the seismograph station posted on Twitter. "There is a wide range of what is considered normal and the Magna sequence is within that range. Sometimes earthquakes barely have any aftershocks, and sometimes they have more than average. This feels abnormal to us because this is the first time in most of our lives that we've lived near an earthquake sequence like this. But for the earth, this is business as usual."
The Thursday aftershock occurred less than two hours before Utah’s pre-planned annual “Great Utah Shake Out,” an earthquake emergency preparedness drill.
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