- The quake had a magnitude of 3.6, according to the USGS.
- No injuries were reported.
An earthquake rattled southern New England on Sunday morning, but there were no reports of major damage.
The quake, with a magnitude of 3.6, was felt in most of Rhode Island, all of eastern Massachusetts and parts of southern New Hampshire, WBUR reported.
“So far, we have over 1,000 people that have reported that they’ve felt the quake,” Paul Caruso, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center, said.
The earthquake, centered a few miles off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in Buzzards Bay, struck at 9:10 a.m., according to USGS.
The Fall River Police Department tweeted that dispatchers had received “numerous calls regarding minor damage inside people’s homes that consisted of items falling off of shelves.” No injuries had been reported.
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