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BAR HARBOR (AP) – Mount Desert Island residents awoke to the earth moving Friday, and the shaking didn’t stop until several hours later.

Monitors recorded five hours of earthquake activity with the biggest being a Magnitude 3.5 quake at 6:39 a.m. about one mile southwest of the middle of Bar Harbor, said John Ebel, director of Massachusetts’ Weston Observatory.

There were roughly nine additional temblors starting at 5:21 a.m. before the main quake and continuing through 10:20 a.m., Ebel said.

The biggest quake was of a magnitude that could be felt miles away, he said. There were no reports of injuries or property damage.

New England averages about one or two earthquakes that are above 3.5 Magnitude each year, Ebel said. Maine already recorded a 3.8-Magnitude earthquake in the northern part of the state on July 14, he said.

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