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Long Islanders say they felt slight trembling and shaking Monday from a 3.8 magnitude earthquake that struck southern Maine at 10:30 a.m.
“Anyone on the border of shoreham and rocky point feel an earthquake just a few minutes ago?” asked Dawn Mussi-Roberge Madigan in the Facebook Group, Rocky Point Community Connection.
What she likely felt were tremors of a minor quake that was centered off the coast of York Harbor, Maine. According to a shake map gathered by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), tremors were felt across much of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, southern Maine and eastern Massachusetts, including metropolitan Boston.
And Long Island.
Long Islanders reported that they felt the quake in Patchogue, Wantagh, Massapequa and Nissequogue. Folks in Westbury and Franklin Square also felt something.
“I’m in Franklin Square and I said to a coworker I feel trembling under my feet and it was fast but I felt it,” Christine Marie commented on a Facebook post from News 12 Long Island meteorologist Rich Hoffman, regarding the earthquake.
“Very slight in Wantagh,” added Don Traynor in the comments gallery.
While it’s uncommon to feel shaking from an Earthquake on Long Island, it does happen every now and then. Last April, a 4.8 magnitude earthquake centered in Califon, New Jersey, significantly shook much of Long Island, with many people feeling a rumbling that lasted between 10-20 seconds.
Top image: A shake map showing the places impacted by Monday’s 3.8 magnitude earthquake off the the coast of southern Maine.
