Sunrise: 6:55 AM
Sunset: 6:20 PM
Length of the day:
11 hours and 25 minutes
New England is hardly the place we think a lot about earthquakes, though we get a pretty good jolt now and then. The majority of our quakes are known as mid-plate quakes, resulting from stresses in the middle of the North American plate – the large piece of the Earth’s crust that our continent is part of. Such was the case on the morning of this date in 1983. A minor earthquake at 6:20 AM EDT rattled some dishes, and a few nerves, but no damage was reported.