It felt as if the furnace was blowing up, a truck was hitting our building and our solar panels were falling off – all at the same time,” said a resident less than 10 miles from the quake’s epicenter.

People across the region felt a 3.8 magnitude earthquake that was centered off the coast of Maine in York Harbor. So how rare is such an occurrence in New England?

Magnitude 3.8 earthquake strikes New England - with shaking felt in Boston and Maine - The Monday morning earthquake was the strongest in the region since last year