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Earthquakes in Maine

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The most recent earthquake of M2.5 or more in Maine was M 2.5, 4 km SW of Vinalhaven, Maine, at 3:49 am EDT on 26 August 2025, 10 km deep. 261 people reported feeling it to USGS. 29 smaller earthquakes have been recorded in Maine since.

No earthquake of M1.5 or more was recorded in Maine in the last 24 hours.

Last 24 hours
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Last 7 days
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Last 30 days
3 · an average 30 days here since 2016: 2.0
Last 12 months
21 · largest M 2.3 on 16 February 2026
Since 2016
268 earthquakes of M1.5 or more
Largest since 2016
M 3.8 on 27 January 2025, 9 km SE of York Harbor, Maine

Latest quake, 24 hours and 7 days: the QuakeIndex database, which reads USGS every 30 seconds, read at ; 30 days and 12 months: the QuakeIndex catalogue, counted to · earthquakes of M1.5 or more in Maine, where USGS names the state in the location

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0 quakes of M1.5 or larger in the last 7 days in Maine. Normal for here is 0 to 1 in a week.

Compared against Maine's own 10 years · USGS catalogue · updated

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The last 30 days

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Each mark is a day's largest quake within range; its size is the magnitude. The shaded band is the magnitude a day's largest quake normally falls in here (M1.7–M2.1), from this place's own 10-year record. A mark above the band is a bigger day than usual.

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Latest earthquakes in Maine

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Largest on record in and around Maine

MagnitudeWhenWhere
M 3.8 9 km SE of York Harbor, Maine
M 3.4 18 km SSE of Beaupré, Canada
M 3.3 7 km ESE of Dedham, Maine
M 3.3 7 km NE of Vanceboro, Maine
M 3.3 15 km NW of St-Jean-Port-Joli, Canada
M 3.0 3 km SE of Centerville, Maine
M 3.0 4 km WNW of Robbinston, Maine
M 3.0 4 km NW of Beaupré, Canada

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service · inside a rectangle drawn around Maine, which takes in some ground over its borders.

Before 2016: the largest in Maine since 1900

The USGS record from 1900 to 2015 lists 7 earthquakes of M5 or more in and just off Maine:

  1. 6.3 7 km NW of Saint-Pacôme, Canada
  2. 5.9 33 km S of Jonquière, Canada
  3. 5.7 Passamaquoddy Bay area, Maine
  4. 5.7 86 km E of Hamlin, Maine
  5. 5.4 86 km E of Hamlin, Maine
  6. 5.1 87 km W of Miramichi, Canada
  7. 5.0 83 km W of Miramichi, Canada

USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900 to 2015, each epicentre counted for the state whose nearest county it is. Epicentres of early earthquakes are estimates. This is the record, not a forecast.

Towns in Maine with the most earthquakes named after them

Calais 6 M2.5+ named after it · Addison 4 M2.5+ named after it

Each town page lists every M1.5+ earthquake within 30 km since 2016 and the ones USGS named after it. Town names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).

Counties in Maine

Be ready

Earthquakes cannot be predicted, here or anywhere, so the useful step is the one taken beforehand. The advice below is from the agencies responsible for it.