At Least 20 Mass. Residents Displaced By Earthquake That Rattled Southeastern Part Of The State

A rare earthquake rattled parts of southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island on Sunday morning.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) confirmed the 4.0 tremor was centered in the southeastern part of the state near Dartmouth at about 9:10 a.m., striking at a depth of 9.3 miles.

The epicenter was a few miles off the coast of New Bedford, in Buzzards Bay, said Randy Baldwin, a geophysicist with the USGS National Earthquake Information Center.

WBUR meteorologist Dave Epstein said people felt the rattle in most of Rhode Island, all of eastern Massachusetts and parts of southern New Hampshire.

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