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 3.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Maine rocked New England on Monday morning, shaking homes from Boston to Cranston, R.I.

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?