3.6 earthquake recorded in Northeast Ohio

TWINSBURG, Ohio (AP) -- A small earthquake was felt in the Cleveland area on Monday night -- and knocked at least one television off its stand -- but caused no major damage.
The quake was recorded at 7:18 p.m. about five miles east of Twinsburg. Preliminary data show it registered a magnitude of 3.6, said Michael Hansen, coordinator of the Ohio Seismic Network, a division of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources that tracks earthquakes.
Most reports of feeling the quake have come from Twinsburg, about 16 miles south of Cleveland, and nearby Stow and Aurora, he said.
"This isn't an area where we commonly have earthquakes," Hansen said.
Other than the fallen TV, there were no reports of damage, and Hansen didn't expect any from the minor quake.
Hansen had not yet determined which of Ohio's many small fault lines was associated with the quake.
The faults are buried deep underground from the formation 800 million years ago of a mountain range that has long since worn away.
When the Earth shifts the fault sometimes shifts, causing an earthquake.
Ohio's largest earthquake registered 5.4 in 1937 in Shelby County, a rural area between Toledo and Dayton. The quake toppled chimneys, gravestones and a school in the town of Anna.
Hansen asked people who felt Monday's earthquake -- Ohio's second this year -- to report their experience on the network's Web site at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/OhioSeis/.
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