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SAME CHARGES.
AN EARTHQUAKE IN MAINE WAS FELT
THROUGHOUT ALL OF NEW ENGLAND.
22NEWS REPORTER JACKIE BROUSSEAU
LOOK AT HOW SOME PEOPLE FELT IT
...AND OTHERS DIDN'T.
QUESTION MANY PEOPLE WERE ASKING
THEIR DAILY ROUTINES.
THE 4-POINT-0 MAGNITUDE
EARTHQUAKE WAS CENTERED IN
MAINE...ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF
FROM FROM SPRINGFIELD, BUT MANY
NEW ENGLAND, INCLUDING
CONNECTICUT...AS FAR AWAY AS
LONG ISLAND...AND RIGHT HERE IN
MASSACHUSETTS. BUT THERE WERE
ALSO THOSE WHO DIDN'T FEEL IT AT
ALL.
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 TREMMOR IN
COULD SEE A COUPLE OF THINGS
SHAKING LIKE A FLASK ON TOP OF A
CABINET AND SOON AFTER MY WIFE
WAS THAT.
PEOPLE IN NEW ENGLAND HAVE BEEN
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 AND THEN IN 1755,
WHEN A 5.8 HIT OFF THE COAST OF
BOSTON CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE
BOSTON WATERFRONT.
SCIENCE BEHIND WHY PEOPLE FELT
IN SOME PLACES AND DIDN'T IN
OTHERS STARTING AT 5:00 TONIGHT.
REPORTING LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM,