Minor Earthquake Shakes Buffalo Suburbs
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A minor earthquake shook Western New York on Monday morning, rattling residents in a region more accustomed to blizzards.
The quake, which registered as 3.8 magnitude according to the U.S. Geological Survey, occurred at 6:15 a.m. near West Seneca, N.Y., a suburb just southeast of downtown Buffalo.
Mark Poloncarz, the Erie County executive, said that the quake was “very quick” but rumbled through his home.
It “shook the whole house so much I thought a car hit it,” he said on Twitter.
There were no immediate reports of injury or significant property damage but social media postings from the region showed shaking homes and small cracks in cement. The quake was also felt across the border in Canada.
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