Thursday Earthquake Was The Fourth This Year For New England

WELL, IT SOUNDED A LOT LIKE AN EXPLOSION AND THEN CAME THE SHAKING IT WAS AN EARTHQUAKE RUMBLING THROUGH SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE TODAY

IT'S NOT THE FIRST ONE THIS YEAR IT SOUNDED LIKE A LARGE EXPLOSION WE HEARD THIS LOUD BOOM MORE THAN ANYTHING, IT WAS LOUD Reporter: THAT WAS THE WAKE-UP CALL THIS MORNING AT JONES GENERAL STORE IN EAST KINGSTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE

SOME PEOPLE THOUGHT THEIR FURNACES WERE BLOWING UP THE SOUND CAUSED BY ROCKS GRINDING AROUND THE FAULT LINE EAST KINGSTON WAS THE EPICENTER OF THE QUAKE YOU GO, HEY, WHAT WAS THAT? WE HAD A 27 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE ACROSS NEW HAMPSHIRE

WHAT THAT MEANS IS YOU'LL PROBABLY FEEL IT BUT DOESN'T NECESSARILY DO A LOT OF DAMAGE Reporter: WBZ METEOROLOGIST PAMELA GARDNER TRACKED THE QUAKE SHE SAID SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND MAINE ARE THE MOST FREQUENT AREAS FOR EARTHQUAKES IN NEW ENGLAND AVERAGING SIX A YEAR, AND 2018 HAS BEEN BUSY IN THAT SEISMIC NEIGHBORHOOD WITH THIS PARTICULAR EARTHQUAKE, IT WAS NUMBER 4 SO FAR SINCE JANUARY 1ST, WHICH MEANS WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO THAT AVERAGE

COULD WE BE DONE FOR THE YEAR? POSSIBLY BUT THERE COULD BE MORE Reporter: AT THE FIRE HOUSE IN EAST KINGSTON, THEY IMMEDIATELY HEARD FROM CONCERNED RESIDENTS ALL KINDS OF PHONE CALLS STARTED COMING IN PEOPLE STARTED STOPPING BY

IT GOT CRAZY EVERYBODY IS CALLING EVERYBODY DID YOU FEEL THAT? WHAT WAS IT? Reporter: MIKE WAS WORKING IN HIS MOTORCYCLE SHOP WHEN THE QUAKE HIT AFTER HE REALIZED THERE WAS NO DAMAGE — THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY NEAT [ LAUGHTER ] KINDA COOL

I HOPE THE GROUND DOESN'T OPEN UP AND SWALLOW ME AT THIS POINT I LIKE THAT, BY THE WAY, THE SEISMIC NEIGHBORHOOD IT IS THE SEISMIC NEIGHBORHOOD

Thursday Earthquake Was The Fourth This Year For New England