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AWAY AS CONNECTICUT AND LONG
ISLAND. 22NEWS REPORTER JACKIE
PEOPLE FELT IT AND OTHERS
DIDN'T.
A 4-POINT-0 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE
HIT MAINE AT 7:12 TUESDAY NIGHT.
CONSIDERED MINOR...THE QUAKE WAS
FELT THROUGHOUT ALL OF NEW
ISLAND...AND RIGHT HERE IN
MASSACHUSETTS BY PEOPLE LIKE
JERRY MITCHELL OF CHICOPEE.
I WAS IN A CHAIR AT THE KITCHEN
TABLE, ALL OF A SUDDEN I FELT
THE WHOLE EARTH MOVE AND I WAS
LIKE WHAT'S GOING ON.
AROUND 7:00 I WAS ON THE PHONE,
I FELT THIS SLIGHT TREMOR IN
COULD SEE A COUPLE OF THINGS
SHAKING LIKE A FLASK ON TOP OF A
CABINET AND SOON AFTER MY WIFE
WAS THAT. BUT THERE WERE OTHERS
WHO FELT NOTHING AT ALL.
THAT'S PROBABLY WHY I FELT
NOTHING. 22NEWS STORMTEAM
METEOROLOGIST NICK BANNIN SAID
DETERMINE WHETHER PEOPLE FELT
THE QUAKE.
WHAT'S THE GROUND BENEATH YOU
MADE OF. IS IT HARD OR SOFT. IS
IT GOING TO ABSORB THE TREMOR OR
BUILDING ARE YOU IN.AS WELL AS
THE DISTANCE AWAY AND THE SIZE
OF THE EARTHQUAKE WILL AFFECT
ACCORDING TO THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY, PEOPLE IN NEW ENGLAND
HAVE BEEN FEELING EARTHQUAKES
DATING BACK TO COLONIAL TIMES.
THE LARGEST AND MOST DAMAGING
EARTHQUAKES RECORDED IN NEW
ENGLAND WERE IN 1638 WHEN A 6.5
HIT VERMONT AND NEW HAMPSHIRE
OFF THE COAST OF BOSTON CAUSING
IN CHICOPEE, I'M JACKIE
BROUSSEAU FOR 22NEWS.