HUBBARDTON, Vt. (AP) – A minor earthquake hit here, but many people may not have even noticed.

The 2.1 magnitude quake was reported about 4 miles beneath the town at about 4 a.m. Monday, officials said.

“It’s very possible that not everyone would feel it,” said Jessica Sigala of the U.S. Geological Survey. “It would feel like a calm shaking.”

“I heard this noise and felt the ground move very slightly,” resident Genny Everson said. “I can’t wait to call my girlfriend in California.”

Earthquakes are rare but not unknown in Vermont and the Northeast.

Monday’s was the second in the Hubbardton area in less than a year, Sigala said.

Last October, a 2.9 earthquake hit about 10 miles north of here, she said.

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