Rare South Texas Earthquake Spooks Some Residents

Photo Taken Near Quake Epicenter
from San Antonio Express-News

South Texas is as far away from an active seismic zone as one can imagine. Well, our knowledge of what's under the earth's crust is (pardon the pun) still pretty thin. So when the earth moves in South Texas, as it did today, the event can shake people up. The LA Times ran a brief story on the 4.8 earthquake.

Damage was minimal, but South Texans were wondering what was going on, as the East Coast similarly wondered during its own surprise quake.