People in McAdam, New Brunswick are still abuzz about a minor earthquake that shook the village on the weekend.
Residents are used to trucks and trains rumbling through town, but the rumbles heard early Saturday morning weren't coming from a vehicle.
Richard Moffatt says he heard the commotion just after 1:30 a.m. Saturday.
"I couldn't tell what it was," he says. "I'd never heard anything like it, but it was kind of, not to over-dramatize it, but an evil sound, and it was a scary sound."
There was no major damage reported but Natural Resources Canada confirmed a minor earthquake struck the town,
It measured 2.4 on the Richter scale and it was just enough to wake Randy Burrell.
"The house shook...well, it sounded just like an explosion," says Burrell. "I didn't know if it was in the ground or in the air or what. It sounded just like dynamite going off. There was quite a concussion to it."
At least two aftershocks were recorded but area residents believe more than two were felt.
"The first one was the loudest, then the next one was big too," says area resident Judy Lord. "But after that it was like a small one, and then there was one Saturday, and there was one again Sunday evening, around six o'clock."
Saturday's quake and subsequent aftershocks aren't the only seismic events recorded in the area recently, but they are the most significant.
Despite the activity, McAdam residents say they don't live in fear of a major earthquake, nor should they, according to retired seismologist Kenneth Burke.
Burke has written at length about earthquakes in New Brunswick and he says the province sits in the middle of a tectonic plate that moves a few centimeters every year.
"Occasionally it has to get relieved a little bit, because the crust is brittle and it slips on an old fault, an ancient fault," he explains.
With files from CTV Atlantic's Andy Campbell
