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.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A magnitude 4.1 earthquake shook homes in Tennessee and North Carolina on Saturday morning. The earthquake occurred around 9 a.m. near the Tennessee-North Carolina border. The earthquake could be felt north of Atlanta, Georgia and east of Greenville, S.C. and Asheville, N.C., according to the United States Geological Survey.

On Saturday, a 4.1 magnitude earthquake jolted awake various parts of East Tennessee near the North Carolina border. 6 News got insight on the quake from the Tuckaleechee Caverns seismographs and spoke with a woman in Tellico Plains who felt the tremor.