FRAMINGHAM, MA – Two small earthquakes were detected less than 15 miles off Cape Cod last night.
At 8:39PM, a Magnitude 2.1 quake was detected, followed by a lessor, Magnitude 1.3 tremor at approximately 8:46PM .
The quakes, which were centered 12 miles from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, approximately 14 miles west of Martha’s Vineyard — 15 miles from New Bedford with the epicenter only 67 miles southwest of Framingham.
Seismologists for the New England Seismic Network of the Weston Observatory of Boston College confirmed the data, (officially USGS Earthquake Event ID #ne00001256 and #ne00001257).
By comparison, the quakes which devestated Japan earlier this year were in the 9+ Magnitude range, effecticely thousands of times stronger than these small tremors which were too weak to be felt on land.
Visit the USGS Earthquake center, ( http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ ), for additional info.
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