Small earthquake reported near New Bedford - 0 Comments

Residents in the New Bedford area may have thought something had blown up beneath their feet after a 1.9 magnitude earthquake struck today seven miles north of the city.

“People usually think that their furnace exploded in their basement,” Dr. John Ebel, a senior research scientist at Boston College Weston Observatory, said of how people typically react to such small quakes. “There is a boom, and a shake that lasts about three seconds, no more than that.”

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