Monday morning, a minor earthquake shook western New York, alarming residents in a region unaccustomed to such tremors but apparently causing no significant damage.

At approximately 6:15 a.m., the US Geological Survey reported a magnitude 3.8 earthquake centred east of Buffalo in the suburb of West Seneca. Yaareb Altaweel, a seismologist, stated that it was the region’s strongest earthquake in at least forty years.

A few seconds of shaking caused residents to look out their windows and then to social media for an explanation.

It felt like a car struck my Buffalo home. “I leapt out of bed,” tweeted Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz. Approximately 20 miles north of Buffalo, he added, county emergency services officials confirmed the earthquake was felt within a 30-mile radius, including in Niagara Falls.

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According to Earthquake Canada, the magnitude 4.2 event was barely felt in southern Ontario.

Small earthquakes are common in upstate New York, but they are rarely as intense. The earthquake follows two record-breaking weather events in the region: a snowstorm in November that dumped up to 7 feet of snow and a blizzard in December that caused 47 deaths.

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