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Small earthquake Saturday hits Bradley County’s Hopewell community

Hi-Tech Digital Sound Wave Low and Hight richter scale with Circle Vibration; technology and earthquake wave diagram concept. earthquake tile / Getty Images
Hi-Tech Digital Sound Wave Low and Hight richter scale with Circle Vibration; technology and earthquake wave diagram concept. earthquake tile / Getty Images Hi-Tech Digital Sound Wave Low and Hight richter scale with Circle Vibration; technology and earthquake wave diagram concept. earthquake tile / Getty Images

A magnitude 1.6 earthquake rattled homes near the Hopewell community in Bradley County, Tennessee, Saturday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The temblor struck just after 4 a.m. Saturday about 11 miles beneath the earth’s surface, the USGS said in a news release. The epicenter was initially placed about 5.6 miles northwest of Cleveland in a wooded area off of Rabbit Valley Road, between Bigsby Creek Road and Old Freewill Road.