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.

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.

YORK HARBOR, Maine — A second earthquake in just three days was detected off the coast of New England early Wednesday morning. The United States Geological Survey confirmed a 2.0 magnitude earthquake centered southeast of York Harbor, Maine, just north of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, around 3:15 a.m.