COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - State experts now say the small earthquake felt in northeast Ohio earlier this week was stronger than first thought.
     
Preliminary data had put the magnitude of Monday's shaker at three-point-four, but the Ohio Seismic Network now says it was a three-point-eight.
     
Network coordinator Mike Hansen says that means the quake was ten times more powerful, given the way the seismic scale works. He says it was much larger than other similar quakes that have rumbled in the area in recent years.
     
The quake was centered about three miles into Lake Erie near North Perry, about 40 miles east of Cleveland, and was felt along the lake shore.
     
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