MINOT – The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a temblor measuring 1.7 on the Richter scale early Monday morning.

The small earthquake was recorded at 2:35 a.m. five miles north of Mechanic Falls, west of the Brighton Hill Road, according to coordinates provided by the agency, and was at the Earth’s surface.

Dispatchers at the Oxford County Regional Communications Center in Paris and the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department said there were no calls from anyone reporting a tremor.