English: Quake epicenters. Română: Epicentre ale cutremurelor produse în intervalul de ani 1963–1998. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Whether you felt it or not, Maine just had a major earthquake.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/last_event/states/states_maine.php
According to the Maine.gov site, our earthquakes do not occur on the fault line.
http://www.maine.gov/doc/nrimc/mgs/explore/hazards/quake/quake-faq.htm#q4
They back this up with a fairly dramatic map showing all the earthquakes that have occurred in Maine.
http://www.maine.gov/doc/nrimc/mgs/explore/hazards/quake/quake-2.htm
If you felt a quake and nobody else did, maybe you felt a cryseism. A frost quake.
http://www.maine.gov/doc/nrimc/mgs/explore/hazards/quake/quake-cryoseism.htm
Then they describe a number of events that may have been frost quakes.
http://www.maine.gov/doc/nrimc/mgs/explore/hazards/quake/quake-cryolist.htm
If you’re determined, here’s a map of Maine’s fault lines from Colby (warning: you won’t like it because there are lots).
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