It felt as if the furnace was blowing up, a truck was hitting our building and our solar panels were falling off – all at the same time,” said a resident less than 10 miles from the quake’s epicenter.

A small earthquake detected off the coast of Maine Wednesday was an aftershock from a larger quake that was felt in Boston earlier this week. Scientist John Ebel with the Weston Observatory explains why more are possible.

A 2.0-magnitude earthquake was reported off the coast of York Harbor, Maine Wednesday morning — days after a larger, 3.8-magnitude quake struck the same area, sending tremors throughout New England. The Wednesday-morning quake struck around 8:15 a.