JOHNSON COUNTY - The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed an earthquake occurred near Cleburne just before 5 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.
The 2.7 magnitude quake was about 16 miles northeast of Cleburne and 29 miles southwest of Dallas. It was a small earthquake, roughly equivalent to a construction-site blast.
It isn't the fist time earthquakes have shaken the area.
Cleburne experience a series of small earthquakes in 2009 and 2010, and SMU scientists concluded that they could have been caused, in part, by a salt-water injection well.
So far, Cleburne officials have released no comment on the quake.
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