Last week in Douglas, Arizona, began with a tornado warning and ended with earthquake tremors

A 4.0 magnitude earthquake that struck in Agua Prieta, Mexico, early Sunday morning was felt all the way in Douglas, Arizona, and other parts of Cochise County. Carol Capas with the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office says it caps a weird week — and summer — for natural hazards.

“At the beginning of last week we had a tornado warning,” Capas said. “Where do we get those in southern Arizona? And now, we’ve had an earthquake that’s potentially impacting southern Arizona? So, we’re ready for the rest of it.”

Luckily, there were no injuries or damages reported from the earthquake, even at its epicenter.

Capas says earthquakes are highly unusual for Douglas, but not impossible.

“I think the last big one was in the late 1800s. I could be wrong on that, but we just want to make sure that people are aware that anything can happen,” Capas said.

Capas says Cochise County has dealt with a number of hazards this summer.

“We’ve had the floods; now we’ve had this earthquake; we’ve had high winds; we’ve had the tornado warning; we’ve had boil-water advisories because of a water situation in Willcox," Capas said. “So, not looking forward to the next thing but we are in as much as in being proactive.”

A power outage impacted water infrastructure in the small border city of Willcox earlier this month. The city’s several thousand residents are still under a water conservation notice to allow the city’s singular water storage tank time to refill.