SNYDER - For the second day in a row, an earthquake has shook the City of Snyder and it's putting some residents on edge. In the last 48 hours, there have been eight earthquakes.
"The bed just starts shaking. It felt like someone was at the end of the bed and had the headboard back and forth back and forth. I jumped and ran outside and realized nobody hit the house," Snyder Resident, Bill Robertson, said.
Many Snyder residents were abruptly woken up Sunday morning to a 4.4 magnitude earthquake. All the shaking had many people asking what was going on.
"We were on the phone for quite a while, 911 took I don't know how many calls. People really wanted to know what was going on," Snyder Fire Chief, Perry Westmoreland, said.
The Fire cCief says that this was one of the biggest earthquakes they have had in a while. Snyder is used to a little shaking but not this rough.
"We have them frequently, normally not of the magnitude we have had the last couple of days. We don't often feel them or at least we don't all feel them like we did yesterday (Sunday)," Westmoreland said.
But it's not just the earthquake that has some scared, it's the noise that comes along with it.
"We could hear a roar. The earthquake lasted like a minute but the noise lasted longer," Robertson said.
"If you're old enough to remember the sonic booms. It resembled a sonic boom," Westmoreland said.
In the past 48 hours, Scurry County has seen eight earthquakes and on Monday morning residents felt another one. This time it was a 3.4 magnitude earthquake.
"Nothing was going on, it was kind of quiet. The next thing I know, it felt like the building went up and went down," Robertson said.
Residents are a little concerned because they have never had this many earthquakes in such a short period of time.
"Why are we getting them? There has been a few over the years. But if there really has been multiple ones in the last 24 hours, sure that's kind of bothersome," Robertson said.
Because earthquakes are becoming more common, some residents think that maybe Snyder shouldn't be known as the land of the white buffalo.
"Snyder should probably change its name to the most shakiest town in Texas," Robertson said.