DANBURY, Conn.
(Reuters) - A mild earthquake jolted parts of Connecticut and
New York state early Tuesday, but there were no reports of injuries
or damage, officials said.
The quake
measured 2.5 and struck at 1:42 a.m. Eastern time , said the U.S.
Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado. It was centered in the
small town of Carmel, New York, about 10 miles northwest of Danbury,
Connecticut.
Quakes with
a magnitude of less than 4.0 are considered minor.
Dozens of
people called local police to say they felt the ground shaking
and other rumblings, said Danbury Police Sgt. Alan Mattie.
Most callers
said they heard an explosion, but Mattie said at police headquarters
it felt "like the air-conditioning system had just kicked
in."
Kay Lee said
her house in Patterson, New York, rattled a bit but "made
more noise than it shook."
Seismic activity
is not unheard of in New York and Connecticut, scientists said.
The same general region had a quake measuring 4.0 in 1985, said
Leonardo Seeber, research scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory.
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