# Earthquake in Maine today **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 27, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487 "2025-01-27T19:50:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/1 "2025-01-27T19:50:44Z")
Did anyone feel it? Any damage or disruptions? Apparently they’re rare in the area, so it has to be a little disorienting. > **[Earthquake off Maine coast rattles New England](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna189415)** > > Moderate shaking was reported in parts of Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/2 "2025-01-27T19:55:09Z")
Here’s some thrilling footage. > **[Watch video footage from York, Maine of earthquake felt across New England...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8tjZak8xEc%2F)** > > A magnitude 3.8 earthquake struck off the coast of New England mid-Monday morning, sending tremors across the region.The United States Geological Survey conf... ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/3 "2025-01-27T20:09:23Z")
How big was it, and where was it centered? I couldn’t get that from the link you posted. I’m not sure what moderate means here. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/4 "2025-01-27T20:15:48Z")
3.8. Not really much at all unless you’re not used to it. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/5 "2025-01-27T20:52:59Z")
The Old Ones are stirring. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/6 "2025-01-27T21:01:38Z")
I felt it in New Hampshire’s southern White Mountains area. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/7 "2025-01-27T21:07:31Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > The Old Ones are stirring. Maybe it’s [a time for harvest](https://www.chaosium.com/a-time-to-harvest-pdf/). Stranger ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/8 "2025-01-27T21:24:23Z")
Looks like everybody everywhere felt it - [there were over 37,500 “felt reports” to the US Geological Service](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000pmk3/dyfi/intensity), and I would imagine most residents in Maine/NH/Massachusetts don’t have USGS on their radar the way those of us who live in quake-prone areas do. (I always submit felt reports.) So every report probably represents thousands of people going “whoa! What the ----?” Although 3.8 magnitude is peanuts for places like Alaska, California, and Hawai’i, my understanding is that smaller quakes are a bigger deal in places like New England because the geology is so different - a 3.8 reverberating through granite feels more intense. Or something - it’s been a long time since I read the book where I’m remembering this from. Corrections welcome if anyone has clearer knowledge! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/9 "2025-01-27T21:49:32Z")
[![](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2024/10/we-will-rebuild.jpg) ](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2024/10/we-will-rebuild.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/10 "2025-01-27T22:01:03Z")
\*golf clap\* Stranger ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/11 "2025-01-27T22:09:16Z")
Didn’t notice it. My wife works in a building Providence and they heard the windows rattle a little. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/12 "2025-01-27T22:14:35Z")
I was working at my desk at home (just north of Boston) and felt it. I thought it was a heavy truck going by or someone unloading construction materials. The house rattled a bit, but didn’t see anything moving or swaying. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/13 "2025-01-27T22:20:55Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > I thought it was a heavy truck going by I felt a quake in Boston decades ago, and that is precisely what I thought - “wow, THAT was a big truck that just went by.” Only later did I find out it was an earthquake. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/14 "2025-01-27T22:52:38Z")
2010-ish, we had just arrived at a rental cabin just outside the Smokies, had a breather before unloading the car when _ **BA-BOOM** _. Asked my wife, _You think that was some big-ass tree just fell over nearby?_ Found out next day it was an earthquake. In the Smokies? Yanking my chain, you are. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/15 "2025-01-27T23:05:39Z")
In places like California there are faults everywhere. This dissipates the energy better. East of the Rockies faults are far less common so the waves travel farther. Also the quakes in the East tend to be deeper so that increases the area affected as well. ---
**Author:** ![KCB615](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@KCB615](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KCB615)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/16 "2025-01-28T00:39:54Z")
I was in Southboro, MA (about 23 miles west of Boston), didn’t feel a thing. Mrs. KCB, at work near Fall River, felt a rumble. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/17 "2025-01-28T02:51:42Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I felt a quake in Boston decades ago, and that is precisely what I thought - “wow, THAT was a big truck that just went by.” I lived in the South Bay / Silicon Valley for twenty years and the only earthquake I felt was like that. Our run-down apartment building got resulted like that plenty. By the time I realized it was going on too long for that, it was over. (Googling the appropriate timeframe leads me to believe it was a 4.4 magnitude in February 2001.) ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/18 "2025-01-28T15:56:03Z")
Live in Southern Maine. About 1/2 mile from RR tracks. Mostly clay soils. After heavy rains we might get a very small rumble when a freight goes by. Yesterday we started with the rumble, then the whole house started mildly shaking, lasted about 20 to 30 seconds. First thought was train derailment, then seconds later Earthquake! Definitely unusual here, first one I’ve felt in 78 years. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/19 "2025-01-28T21:29:09Z")
It was about 50/50 at work who felt it and who didn’t, just outside of Boston proper. I did not, but I usually do feel them and no one else does or believes me until later it shows up on the news and I get to be like “I told you so”. I used to work in York County and only twice have I felt really bad about not being there to experience something: the drama, the gossip, the shared experience, the deviation from just another normal day. The earthquake would be one. And the day they busted the house of ill repute about 5, 10 years ago. Man, that day at the office would have been electric with our speculating about clientele. ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake-in-maine-today/1013487/20 "2025-01-28T21:41:12Z")
Ah, you mean the Zumba lady!