The tiny temblors — magnitude 2.0 and less — are jangling nerves near South Carolina's Lake Monticello, according to The State newspaper, but the tremors are not unprecedented.

Lake Monticello is rare because small quakes keep happening years after the lake was created. Since Oct. 25, seven earthquakes have rumbled across Jenkinsville, South Carolina.

Lake Monticello triggered as many as 10,000 small earthquakes beginning in the late 1970s as changes in pressure from the new reservoir affected the ground below, according to a 2001 study by ...

Lake Monticello triggered as many as 10,000 small earthquakes beginning in the late 1970s as changes in pressure from the new reservoir affected the ground below, according to a 2001 study by ...