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?

A small earthquake detected off the coast of Maine Wednesday was an aftershock from a larger quake that was felt in Boston earlier this week. Scientist John Ebel with the Weston Observatory explains why more are possible.