Yet Again, Another Earthquake Rattles Eastern Connecticut
PLAINFIELD, Conn. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A 2.2-magnitude earthquake has rattled eastern Connecticut again.
In what's becoming a daily seismic event, the Weston Observatory of Boston College said the earthquake occurred at about 4:40 a.m. Thursday near Plainfield, where previous earthquakes were recorded.
Two minor earthquakes were recorded on Wednesday and another on Tuesday.
Yet Again, Another Earthquake Rattles Eastern Connecticut
Several were recorded on Monday and last week, too.
A 3.3-magnitude earthquake near the Connecticut-Rhode Island state line on Monday was the strongest New England earthquake since a 4.0-magnitude quake in Maine in 2012, WCBS 880's Paul Murnane reported.
The observatory said that while the greatest earthquake activity in the United States is in the west, earthquakes are "quite common'' in many areas of the eastern United States, including New England.
Earthquake swarms can last for weeks or months, Murnane reported. The observatory's Dr. John Ebel said there were hundreds in the Connecticut cluster in the 1980s.
"The probability of something bigger happening is relatively small," Ebel said. "But on the other hand, when we have had damaging earthquakes in the past, sometimes they have been preceded by smaller earthquakes."
Plainfield officials have invited Alan Kafka, director of the observatory, to an informational meeting at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the town's high school.
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