People Report Shaking as Earthquake Strikes New Hampshire

Today's earthquake struck at the orange dot inside the concentric colored circles. Image: USGS — Today’s earthquake struck at the orange dot inside the concentric colored circles. Image: USGS

People used the “Did you feel it?” reporting tool on the USGS website to report they felt today’s earthquake which struck New Hampshire. According to USGS, a relatively weak magnitude 2.2 earthquake hit at 6:04 am this morning near Andover, New Hampshire. Shaking was reported throughout central New Hampshire.

Fourteen people used the “Did you feel it?” tool on the USGS Earthquake website to report they felt ground movement with this earthquake. Generally, magnitude 2.0 events and greater are widely felt while earthquakes under that are rarely felt. Those that did report the quake to USGS described the shaking as “weak” to “light.”

New York is no stranger to earthquakes; this map shows the epicenter of every earthquake from 1975 to 2017. Image: NESEC — New England is no stranger to earthquakes; this map shows the epicenter of every earthquake from 1975 to 2017. Image: NESEC

Earthquakes aren’t completely rare in this part of the country; some can even be damaging.

While earthquakes do strike from time to time, none were strong or damaging in New Hampshire this year. Earthquakes aren’t completely rare in this part of the country; some can even be damaging. According to the Northeast States Emergency Consortium, there were 320 earthquakes between 1638 and 2016; earthquakes that struck in 1638 and 1940 produced damaging results.

The last noteworthy earthquake to hit new Hampshire struck on April 23 ; 156 people used the USGS website to report they felt it.