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.

The Wednesday-morning quake struck around 8:15 a.m. less than 6 miles off the coast with a depth of about 6 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Residents of Maine and New Hampshire reported feeling the shaking Wednesday.

People across the region felt a 3.8 magnitude earthquake that was centered off the coast of Maine in York Harbor. So how rare is such an occurrence in New England?