The quake, which struck at 10:22 a.m., was centered near Maine’s idyllic York Harbor but could be felt as far away as Portland (45 miles north) and Boston (67 miles south).

“Today’s M3.8 near Bar [York] Harbor, Maine, reminds us that earthquakes are unusual but not unheard of along the Atlantic Seaboard,” the USGS said in a post on X.

The depth of the earthquake was more than 8 miles underground, the USGS said.

It didn’t trigger any tsunami threats, according to the US National Tsunami Warning Center.

“It was brief — 5-8 seconds — but my entire house shook and I had a couple loud bangs that I’m not sure what they were. It was pretty intense for something that small and brief,” one resident in Methuen, Ma. told WCVB.

“We just felt a pretty steady earthquake up here in Newburyport. My parents in Dover, New Hampshire and brother in Portland Maine both felt it as well,” another said.

It comes after a rare 4.8-magnitude earthquake, centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, rattled the tri-state in April last year.

That temblor, which was the strongest to strike near the Big Apple in more than 100 years, was potentially felt by more than 42 million people, the USGS said at the time.

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