Monday afternoon a 3.6 magnitude earthquake hit near the Kentucky-Tennessee border region.

The U.S. Geological Survey reports the earthquake hit about 1.4 miles south of Fincastle, TN in Campbell County.

USGS upgraded the earthquake from a 3.6 magnitude to a 3.8 magnitude.

One of the many places to feel the quake was Barbourville. Some people said they felt their trailers shake and rattle, and even the Knox County Sheriff said he felt it.

Thankfully an earthquake of this lower magnitude is not enough to cause major damage, but people in the area still said it felt like a car hitting their building.

“Just a big jolt really and so at first it, a little bit, the first time wasn’t bad. The second time was really hard,” said Darren West, who was in his home when the quake hit.

Another man who was asleep in his home when the quake hit.

“I was trying to take a nap, I didn’t know what was going on. I mean when I say it jarred the windows, it shook everything in my house,” said Nick Dozier.

People as far north as Jackson County have reported that they felt the earth shake. In Laurel County, Shannon Smith was on the second floor of the building where she works. She said it took a few minutes to figure out exactly what happened.

“I called downstairs and nobody in the office on the main floor felt anything. It was just the upstairs that felt it. So the next thing was social media,” said Smith. “I went to Facebook and there’s where it was at. Everybody was talking about it so I knew it was an earthquake.”

This is believed to be the strongest earthquake felt in southeastern Kentucky since 2012. That one was a 4.3 on the Richter scale. The epicenter of that quake was eight miles west of Whitesburg, near the Blackey community of Letcher County. The quake caused some minor structural damage at the Letcher County courthouse and near the epicenter.

The strongest earthquake ever felt in Kentucky was a 5.2 magnitude in 1980 in Bath County.