2.4-magnitude quake shakes Arlington

Did you feel it? The U.S. Geological Survey confirms a magnitude 2.4 earthquake rattled the Mid-Cities early Sunday morning.

The quake was centered at Gene Allen Park, one mile southwest of AT&T Stadium, and struck at 3:56 a.m.

"I heard something fall, but I thought it was a picture frame," wrote Marie Gonzalez on the WFAA Facebook page.

"Thought my girl and her slumber party friends were shaking my bed," added Tammy Rice Paupaw. "Sounded like a loud boom or explosion."

"There was a big 'boom' before the shake," Tammy Martinez Ferguson wrote. "Thought it was thunder, but it wasn't."

The Arlington Fire Department reported getting numerous calls regarding "explosions" and "house shaking" around 4 a.m., with reports centered in area of Fielder Road and Interstate 30, with other callers extending to the area of Highway 360 and Road to Six Flags.

Officials said there have been no reports of damage to city buildings or infrastructure, but some neighbors along Shorewood Drive near Lake Arlington wondered if a water main break Sunday morning could be related.

Still, it wasn't exactly an earth-shaking morning for everyone.

"I live in the exact area it describes, and was up at the time and felt nothing," Darian McKnight posted to Facebook.

In the past year, the U.S. Geological Survey has measured 34 earthquakes of 2.0 magnitude or higher within 75 miles of Dallas-Fort Worth; the strongest were two 3.6-magnitude jolts near Azle on November 19 and December 8 of last year, an area which has seen the biggest cluster of quakes in North Texas.

Sunday's tremor was felt about 12 hours before the Dallas Cowboys welcomed the San Francisco 49ers to AT&T Stadium, and that prompted a lot of tounge-in-cheek reactions on the WFAA Facebook page.

"That shaking feeling was a whole bunch of people jumping off the Cowboys' bandwagon," wrote Kat Mora.

Others opined that a 2.4 quake is nothing to get excited about.

"I don't think those count in California as an earthquake," Lisa Kitchen Barger wrote.

Kelly Clark, who said she grew up in Southern California, agreed. "That was not an earthquake ... that, my friends, was a hiccup ... you don't feel anything under a 4.0."

And Russell J. Amaya, who said he experienced a powerful quake in Costa Rica in the 1990s, had this to say about what happened in Arlington overnight: "That is not news!!!!"