3 earthquakes hit off the coast of Rhode Island in one weekend

Three earthquakes hit off the coast of Rhode Island inside 24 hours over the weekend, and one was felt in Windfall, The Boston Globe reported Sunday.

The primary earthquake hit at 4:42 a.m. Saturday, about 18 miles south-southeast of the Narragansett Pier, and had a magnitude of two.2 on the Richter Scale, the Globe reported.

The second earthquake hit at 10:15 p.m. Saturday and was a 2.5 aftershock in the identical space. It was felt in Windfall. At 2:40 a.m. Sunday, a 2.2 aftershock hit close to New Shoreham, the Globe reported.

There have been a complete of 20 responses and no injury studies, the newspaper wrote.

The first two quakes occurred about 3.2 miles underground, whereas the final occurred at a depth of 1.3 miles, the Globe reported.

There’s a fault line that’s close to the Narragansett Pier. Earthquakes should not unusual alongside that fault line, the place 34 earthquakes have occurred between 1766 and 2016, based on the Northeast States Emergency Consortium (NESEC), a nonprofit emergency administration group based mostly in Wakefield.

The strongest earthquake alongside that fault line occurred in 1638 and was felt all through the New England Colonies, the NESEC studies. Nonetheless, Rhode Island has by no means reported a dangerous earthquake.