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Earthquake Shakes Central Maine

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - April 24, 2022

An earthquake struck central Maine today; there haven't been any reports of any damage at this time. Image: USGS
An earthquake struck central Maine today; there haven’t been any reports of any damage at this time. Image: USGS

An earthquake struck today in central Maine, the 6th such earthquake to strike the Dirigo state this year. The magnitude 2.5 event had an epicenter about 3 miles south of Sebec, Maine; the earthquake’s epicenter had a depth of 3.3 miles. While there’s no report of any damage, more than a dozen people used USGS’s “Did you feel it?” reporting tool to report they felt the earthquake.




While not famous for their earthquakes, Maine does get them from time to time. Earlier this month, on April 2, a magnitude 2.0 earthquake struck about 7 miles southeast of Waterville, near the Winslow-China town line.  On March 8, a magnitude 2.1 earthquake struck about 2 miles north of Tunk Lake in eastern Hancock County. On February 12, a magnitude 2.4 earthquake struck 12 miles west of Houlton; some locals reported feeling shaking then. On February 4, a magnitude 2.9 event was widely felt in the Bethel area of western Maine, 8 miles from the epicenter in Gorham, New Hampshire. People up to 25 miles away from the epicenter of that earthquake felt it in Maine. Two earthquakes of a 2.0 magnitude hit on January 17 ; one was 2 miles west of Springvale, the other was about 1/2 mile south of Springvale.

The strongest earthquake to strike Maine in the last 10 years was a magnitude 4.5 event on October 16, 2012 in East Waterboro, about 13 miles northwest of Saco.

According to the Maine Geological Survey with the Department of Conservation, seismic activity in Maine is typical of the Appalachian region of northeastern North America. “There is a low but steady rate of earthquake occurrence,” they report, adding that “The earthquakes are presumably caused by modern stress being released occasionally along zones of weakness in the earth’s crust, but a more specific cause for the earthquake activity is not known.”

 

 

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