Strongest quake in 40 years hits western New York: ‘It looks like a car crashed into my house in Buffalo’

A small quake hit western New York early Monday morning, alarming people in a region unaccustomed to such tremors but apparently causing little damage.

USGS tentative reported a magnitude 3.8 earthquake. centered east of Buffalo in suburban West Seneca around 6:15 AM. Seismologist Yaareb Altawil said it was the strongest earthquake in the region in at least 40 years.

The shaking lasted several seconds and sent residents first to their windows and then to social media in search of an explanation.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncartz made the announcement. no damage reported still in West Seneca, a suburb of Buffalo.

“It felt like a car had crashed into my house in Buffalo. I jumped out of bed,” Polonkarts tweeted. County emergency officials confirmed the quake was felt in a radius of at least 30 miles, including at Niagara Falls, about 20 miles north of Buffalo, he said.

The 4.2 magnitude quake in Canada reported that it was lightly felt in southern Ontario.

Small earthquakes are not uncommon in upstate New York, but are rarely felt this strongly. The quake followed two record-breaking weather events in the region: a snowstorm that dropped up to 7 feet of snow in November and a December blizzard that killed 47 people.

The quake in western New York came just hours after massive quakes that killed hundreds in Turkey and Syria. A USGS spokesman said there was no connection between the two events.

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