The United States Geological Survey has recorded a magnitude 4.5 earthquake off the coast of North Carolina.
According to the USGS, the earthquake was recorded at about 12 p.m. on Wednesday. Reports show that the recorded area was about 375 miles from the Outer Banks and about 6.2 miles deep.
Today, USGS has measured 37 earthquakes. Others include a cluster near Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and others in the Mountain West and Plains regions of the continental U.S.
Last October, residents of the Outer Banks reported feeling a mysterious boom and shaking that caused pictures to fall off walls and rattle windows. One theory included Seneca guns, or the phenomena where loud booms reported from New York to Hampton Roads are heard with no explanation.
The USGS has said the most logical explanation, learned from past earthquakes, is that weak, shallow quakes are to blame. Other theories, though, included sonic booms from military jets or the movement of tectonic plates.
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