Earthquakes Canada has confirmed a 3.8 magnitude earthquake hit an area 19 kilometres northwest of Saint John in southern New Brunswick this morning. https://t.co/mY8aoyaSlI —@Gov_NBZac Kurylyk of Grand Bay-Westfield was sitting in his home office when he heard a "loud noise and the house started shaking." The house started shaking. A next step for researchers, he said, might be to examine the area where the earthquake hit for surface cracking. But the last major earthquake, a magnitude 5, hit the Miramichi area in the 1980s, the largest earthquake to have affected the Maritimes since 1929.

Source: CBC News January 10, 2019 14:29 UTC