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DIXON -There's some shifting going on in western Montana as the New Year approaches. Excitement can sometimes seem limited in small-town Montana.

"Dixon is very, very small and not a lot happens here," witness Liz Posil said. But on Friday in Dixon, a rather unusual event became the talk of the town.

"[I] just starting seeing this like vibration and all of a sudden it just went light and then, ‘bum bum bum bum bum', and then stopped and Cindy is on the phone going, ‘what the heck is going on?'," Posil recalled.

People in Dixon woke up startled Friday morning thinking they had woken up to a train wreck, but it turns out it was a small earthquake.

A 3.2 magnitude earthquake hit the town around 9 a.m. and less than an hour later, the town had come alive.

"I called my neighbors to see if they felt it. I thought maybe I was crazy," resident Cindy Hill told us.

The post office became the go to place for information according to employee Melanie McCollum.

"Everybody will come to the post office to see what happened. We're kind of the central point here in Dixon."

And even local pets were on high alert according to Hill. "My dog just stood straight up. He looked around like- what was that?"

The earthquake may not be big on national standards, but it sure topped the headlines for this Sanders County town Friday morning.

We also had reports from people in Charlo, Arlee and St. Ignatius who had felt the quake.