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?

The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 2.0 quake was about 5.5 miles southeast of York Harbor in almost the exact same spot as a magnitude 3.8 earthquake on Monday.