DEERING, NH — The person killed in a fire that tore through a home in Deering, New Hampshire Saturday has been identified. Richard Berger, 72, was pronounced deceased after crews responded to a single-family home on Hart Farm Road engulfed in flames around 9:19 p.m. Saturday.
A magnitude 3.8 earthquake shook parts of New England early Monday morning, striking approximately 7 miles southeast of York Harbor, Maine. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the quake hit at a depth of roughly 8 miles, rattling the region from Boston to Portland, Maine.
Bradley Asbury received a 20-40 year sentence for his role in the sexual assault of a boy at a New Hampshire youth detention center in 1998. He intends to appeal the conviction.
Experts say that while it has been quiet after Monday's quake, the risk of one or more aftershocks is not out of the question.
The Boston area shook from a rare, but minor, earthquake Monday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey rated the shaking as a magnitude 3.8, downgraded from the initial magnitude of 4.1. It was centered off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine in York Harbor,
A winter storm is expected to bring snow to New England overnight, potentially impacting the Wednesday morning commute.
State Police seized 1,300 grams of what officials believe to be fentanyl, approximately 500 grams of suspected methamphetamine, two firearms, and approximately $5,000, officials said Monday.
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Monday’s incident marked the strongest earthquake in the northeast U.S. since last year when a 4.8-magnitude earthquake hit New Jersey in April — the strongest to hit the region in more than a decade, according to NBC News. There is currently no tsunami threat in New England, according to the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center.
A light but rare 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of southern Maine on Monday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey, sending trembles across New England. The earthquake’s epicenter was about 10 miles east of Portsmouth, N.H., the survey said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
An earthquake​ just off Maine today was felt in Boston and into Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire, according to a "shake map."