USGS confirms 2.7-magnitude earthquake rattled Northwest Dallas early Thursday

It’s been close to three weeks since Dallas had its last earthquake — that 2.6 on March 14 near the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, not far from the city’s new soccer complex. Time to reset the days-since-our-last-quake counter.

At 5:38 this morning some Northwest Dallas residents heard that now-familiar boom that heralds the coming shudder of a small earthquake — this one, a 2.7-magnitude temblor preliminarily located on Northwest Highway just west of Stemmons Freeway. It took the U.S. Geological Survey 28 minutes to locate this one, which was felt by plenty of folks living in Northwest Dallas and Irving. And, as we’ve learned in recent months, the final location could change once seismologists have a harder, longer look at the data.

But one thing’s clear: In recent weeks the “Irving swarm” has moved into Northwest Dallas. Which makes sense: SMU seismologists did say back in February that our quakes are located on a relatively short and shallow fault line that stretches from Irving to West Dallas.

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