Peabody rocked the second confirmed earthquake in two weeks – Boston 25 News

PEABODY, Massachusetts. – Panicked Peabody residents braced Wednesday night as the second confirmed earthquake in two weeks hit the North Shore.

After catching their breath, Stacey Doolin and Dale Houston hurried out of their home on Emerson Street to find their neighbors outside equally anxious and bewildered.

“There was this huge boom that shook the whole house,” Houston said.

“It honestly looks like something is trying to work its way out of the earth,” Doolin added.

But the tremor was not the first of its kind. Peabody residents have been reporting loud bangs and tremors for months.

John Ebel, a professor of geophysics at Boston College and a senior researcher at the Weston Observatory in British Columbia, said Wednesday night’s activity was recorded as a magnitude-1.2 earthquake.

He also identified another small earthquake shortly after midnight on July 25. No damage was reported from either incident.

“It’s a typical small earthquake in this part of the country,” Ebel said. “In New England, we pick up an earthquake, with a magnitude of 1 to 1.5, once or twice a month from somewhere in the area.”

Ebel explained that earthquakes occur in the region because as North America spreads away from Europe and Africa, the North American tectonic plate collides with the Pacific plate.

“So North America has fallen into a huge pressure movement,” Ebel said. This pressure causes them to compress and crack inside. And that’s why we have earthquakes in the New England area.”

But residents are curious as to why this happens in Peabody – and why more than once.

Ebel’s research involves earthquake swarms, or clusters of earthquakes in one location over a short period of time. Ebel said it’s possible that Peabody has a swarm.

“I’m worried they’re going to keep happening,” Doolin said. “It’s very scary when it happens.”

While it is impossible to predict whether a larger seismic event is on the horizon, as some residents fear, Ebel says it is unlikely.

“Most of the time when we have a small earthquake, nothing big follows. It’s not followed by an earthquake big enough to cause damage,” he said.

In February, police used drones and K-9s to investigate what Peabody residents believe were explosions nearby. Houston said the event shook his home with greater and higher force than confirmed earthquakes. However, the police did not discover the cause, and no significant seismic activity was detected.

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