MASSENA, New York (WWNY) - If you felt some rumbling in and around Massena Monday night, you weren’t imagining things.

The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a minor earthquake at 7:16 p.m.

According to the USGS website , the quake was a magnitude 1.6 and centered about 3.1 miles beneath the village of Massena.

Typically, a quake that minor goes unnoticed, but people in the region told 7 News they felt the tremor.

According to the USGS, the Adirondack region of northern New York state is one of the more seismically active parts of the northeastern U.S.

The three largest known earthquakes in the region caused about $20 million of damage (in 2002 dollars) to Cornwall, Ontario, and to Massena, New York in 1944 (magnitude 5.8), caused slight damage in a sparsely settled part of the souther

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