4.0 Earthquake Shakes Up Maine and New Hampshire
A moderate earthquake that rumbled through parts of Maine and New Hampshire today sounded like a sonic boom and shook buildings, but no damage was reported.
The temblor had a magnitude of 4.0, according to the Weston Observatory in Weston, Mass. Other reports put the temblor at 3.9.
The quake, which struck at 9:10 a.m., was believed to have been centered about five miles northeast of Berlin, N.H. But rumblings and booms were reported all the way from central New Hampshire to Yarmouth on the Maine coast.
“I thought it was a load of lumber falling,” said Sandy Endicott, a secretary at a lumberyard in Bethel, Me.
Leo Perron, 78, of Berlin said, “It shook the whole house. Pictures on the wall, everything in it went flopping back and forth.”
Perron said he has been through several earthquakes before, but this was the worst he had felt in 30 years.
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