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Today\u2019s earthquake struck at the orange dot inside the colored concentric circles on the map. Image: USGS<\/p>\nToday\u2019s earthquake struck at the orange dot inside the colored concentric circles on the map. Image: USGS<\/p>\n
According to USGS, an earthquake struck the Quebec Province in Canada north and east of Maine along the western bank of the Saint Lawrence River near the town of Saint-Sim\u00e9on. The earthquake struck at 11:12 am this morning from a depth of 10 km; it was rated a magnitude 2.5 event.<\/p>\n
According to USGS, earthquakes with a magnitude of 2.0 or less are rarely felt or heard by people, but once they exceed 2.0 more and more people can feel them. While damage is possible with magnitude 3.0 events or greater, significant damage and casualties usually don\u2019t occur until the magnitude of a seismic event rises to a 5.5 or greater rated event. It is possible the earthquake was felt in northernmost Maine.<\/p>\n
Earthquakes aren\u2019t very common in this part of the world but they also aren\u2019t completely unexpected. Earthquakes have struck this part of Canada and Maine before.\u00a0 Just weeks ago, on June 18, a magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck north and east of today\u2019s near the town of Mont-Joli.<\/a>\u00a0 A\u00a0 2.5 struck earthquake\u00a0 west of August on August 8, 2023<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0On April 24, 2022, an earthquake of similar intensity also struck central Maine.<\/a>\u00a0 Earlier that 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.<\/p>\n 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. \u201cThere is a low but steady rate of earthquake occurrence,\u201d they report, adding that \u201cThe earthquakes are presumably caused by modern stress being released occasionally along zones of weakness in the earth\u2019s crust, but a more specific cause for the earthquake activity is not known<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s earthquake struck at the orange dot inside the colored concentric circles on the map. Image: USGS According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,3474,24517,241,39891,3477],"class_list":["post-116841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-earthquake","tag-maine","tag-quebec","tag-saint-simeon","tag-usgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}