M 3.5 - 5 km SE of Portsmouth, Rhode Island

  • 1976-03-11 08:29:32 (UTC)
  • 41.560°N 71.210°W
  • 0.0 km depth

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Maximum observed Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) VI

Plaster cracked at Rogers, Connecticut; a lamp fell from a table at Newport, Rhode Island; amd snow was knocked off a roof at Westport, Massachusetts. Felt from Oakland, Rhode Island, south to Newport and from Somerset, Massachusetts, south to New Bedford and Westport.

Abridged from Seismicity of the United States, 1568-1989 (Revised), by Carl W. Stover and Jerry L. Coffman, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527, United States Government Printing Office, Washington: 1993.

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