Minor quake near York Harbor gives folks in the region something to talk about

WEST LEBANON, Maine - If you felt your house shaking like an Abrams tank was rumbling up your driveway around 10:20 a.m. today then you felt the earthquake of Jan. 27, 2025.

According to https://earthquake.usgs.gov/, the temblor registered 3.8 on the Richter scale and was centered 10 kilometers southeast of York Harbor, Reports indicated it was felt as far away as Concord, N.H.

In West Lebanon at the offices of The Rochester Voice, we looked out the window seeing if there were an earth moving operation going on nearby.

According to the U.S Geological Survey, New England has seen small earthquakes and suffered damage from infrequent larger ones since colonial times.

Moderately damaging earthquakes strike somewhere in the region every few decades, and smaller earthquakes are felt roughly twice a year.

The largest known New England earthquakes occurred in 1638 (magnitude 6.5) in Vermont or New Hampshire, and in 1755 (magnitude 5.8) offshore from Cape Ann northeast of Boston.

A pair of small earthquakes registered on Halloween 2016 centered in Salisbury and Andover. The two temblors included a 1.8 quake in Salisbury followed by a 1.6 10 minutes later in Andover.