Scientists on Monday recorded four small earthquakes within 20 minutes in the same area of eastern Connecticut, including a 3.1-magnitude tremor felt more than 60 miles away in Massachusetts. They followed two smaller quakes in the same area last week.
The Weston Observatory at Boston College reports the quakes were recorded Monday morning near Danielson and northern Plainfield. They included a 1.1-magnitude quake just after 6:30 a.m. that was followed by tremors of magnitudes 0.9, 3.1 and 2.0.
"Heard & felt the one at 6:36 and the one a few minutes after!" Amy Davis Diggett of Sterling, Connecticut, said on Facebook.
"In Sterling. House shook and ground rumbled for about 3 seconds at 6:37 this am," added Jean Thompson Cranton, who is 3 miles from where the Plainfield quake was reported.
"Felt in Berkley, MA," said Susan Perkins Cordery.
"Heard and felt two in Canterbury," said Michael Meehan. "Our dog Roscoe became restless and started barking minutes before the first one happened."
NECN affiliate WVIT also received several reports of booms and shaking from Danielson, Moosup, Woodstock and Brooklyn, similar to what residents reported feeling in previous earthquakes.
"Wow that was scary," Cindy, from Sterling, said in an e-mail. She said the entire house shook. "Not just a little either."
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Kathy, of Brooklyn, said she felt two big booms and a few other smaller booms.
A Moosup resident said the earthquake shook her house for four to five seconds.
The Plainfield Police Department and the Quinebaug Valley Communications have been inundated with calls from eastern Connecticut since 6:30 a.m., including Plainfield, Killingly, Brooklyn, and Sterling, police said in a news release.
Residents reported another loud explosion, then ground shaking.
On Thursday, a small earthquake rattled the area and the U.S. Geological Survey said it was a magnitude 2.3. Last Friday, there was a 0.4 magnitude quake.
Scientists say such a series of small quakes isn't unusual in New England.
