The USGS won't post anything less than a 2.5, so this doesn't appear on their activity map. The local media must consider that a metric to determine whether its worth investigating, because after some anecdotal coverage, the story disappeared.

The USGS puts us in a reasonably low risk region. But then again, they list Iowa as a no-risk region; And it enjoyed the 1895 6.8. So I have no idea how to interpret these local events.

The Sable Island gas fields aren't too far away, as the crow flies. I'd be curious to know what information is being shared internally by the geologists that monitor that project.