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

Even parts of New England and Texas have been struck by record-setting earthquakes in the last year after more than a decade of relative quiet. But America's West Coast is still where geologists ...

earthquake forecasting, wave propagation studies and determination of lithospheric structure. Since 1981 I have supervised the operations of the New England Seismic Network of Weston Observatory of ...