Parts of Louisiana's Gulf coast Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, approximately 45 miles from the giant Assumption Parish sinkhole in the Bayou Corne area of a breached Napoleonville Salt Dome cavern, shook Wednesday, causing offices of officials to be flooded with telephone calls from frightened residents.

A little before 2 p.m. Wednesday, reports began flooding officials' offices about tremors with loud thunder noises some 45 miles from Louisiana's giant sinkhole and about 140 miles northwest of the BP-wrecked Macondo Prospect oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Even residents in brick houses were rattled by the quakes.

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