Two small earthquakes hit a North Carolina town within minutes.
The US Geological Survey, the first a 1.8 magnitude quake happened at 4:17am about 8.6 miles northwest of Salisbury at a depth of 12 kilometers.
The second, slightly more powerful quake occurred about seven minutes later.
That quake registered 2.1 on the Richter scale. The epicenter of this quake was about 8.4 miles away from Salisbury.
No other details are immediately available.
