At 4.1 magnitude near Greenback, the May 10 quake was large for our area. Experts look back on the last earthquakes to predict the future.

There was an earthquake Monday night in Illinois, just a day after one was recorded in neighboring Kentucky. The quake happened in Lerna, Illinois at 11:43 p.m. CDT. Sign up for our Newsletters That’s in southeastern Illinois,

The quake hit around 9 a.m. local time, about 13 miles from Greenback, Tennessee, which is about 30 miles south of Knoxville, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The earthquake just miles from the North Carolina border awakened families and rattled homes as far away as Charlotte as it spread tremors across portions of the southern U.S. on Saturday morning.

Smaller aftershocks can occur in the days and weeks after an earthquake like the one that shook East Tennessee on May 11.

People in Tennessee got a bit of a jolt this morning when an earthquake shook the ground. The US Geological Survey says it was of 4.1 magnitude.

An earthquake recorded in central Kentucky came less than 24 hours after a quake struck southeastern Tennessee. A 2.8 magnitude quake was recorded at 3:41 Sunday morning near High Bridge in Jessamine

The quake struck south of Greenback, about 30 miles south of Knoxville, just after 9 a.m., according to data from the United States Geological Service.

Early Sunday morning, a 2.8-magnitude earthquake was recorded in central Kentucky. On Saturday, a 4.1-magnitude earthquake originating in Tennessee was also felt in eastern Kentucky.