BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region

Subject: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: Burke
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 02:27 PM

5.5 Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region. About 45 minutes ago. Felt in upstate NY. Did you feel it? Any damage?

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 02:32 PM

A 5.5? That's odd for that area... any idea of the location?

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: Alice
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 02:33 PM

USGS map shows location

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 02:34 PM

The United States Geological Survey is reporting an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 occurred 38 miles north of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada at 1:41 EST.

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: GUEST,bankley
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 02:36 PM

I could feel the rumble and the house shaking some. On the St. Lawrence river over an hour west of the Quebec border. We get them now and then along the Big river. Mother Earth moving to her own tune.

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 02:39 PM

It happened back in 1998 with the same magnitude ... was living in T.O back then .... was at work when it happened ... it was a weird sensation.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: GUEST,bankley
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 03:12 PM

The Ottawa Valley is prone to this activity. Felt a few when I lived there... now if only it could have held off until this week-end's G-20 in TO. That would have scrambled the scene....

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: LilyFestre
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 03:25 PM

There are reports of people feeling the shaking here in north central Pennsylvania.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: GUEST,999
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 04:06 PM

Damn. Thought it was caused by thinking about Shania Twain.

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: GUEST,999
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 04:13 PM

We felt it here, Ron. FYI

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: bobad
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 04:30 PM

Funny thing, I am closer to the epicenter than most yet didn't feel any movement, I was out side poking around in the garden and heard and physically felt this extremely discomforting, very low, base tone, so evident that I walked towards my neighbour's home wondering if it was coming from there. My dog, who was lying outside got up and went into the house.

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: Burke
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 04:33 PM

Over 22,000 have responded to the Did you feel it? question on the USGS page. Most felt weak to light. For a relatively small earthquake it seems to have been felt quite far away.

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 04:38 PM

Several people around here in southwestern New Hampshire felt it. I was having lunch at a restaurant in Acton, Massachusetts, west of Boston, and missed the whole thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 05:04 PM

I was parked over at the local mall, and I felt the car oscillating gently for 10 or 20 seconds, rocking a bit on its springs. I figured it had to be an earthquake, but it was quite a subtle effect.

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: maire-aine
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 12:30 AM

I didn't feel it myself, but a lot of folks in south-east Michigan reported feeling it, esp. folks on upper floors of office buildings.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: LadyJean
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 12:36 AM

It shook things here in Pittsburgh. But I didn't notice. (I was cleaning a six bedroom house. You don't notice much when you're doing that.)

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: 3refs
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 06:31 AM

I was sitting at Veterans Park, beside Lake Simcoe in Orillia, and I thought someone had snuck up behind my car and was rocking it.

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 07:32 AM

I think I missed it here in New Hampshire because I was on the road at the time.

We occasionally have our own -- really felt the one in '78 or '79 when I was living in Cape Porpoise, Maine, and also the NH one in the very early '80s. Also felt the Plattsburg, NY one about 10 years ago. That's the one the cats ignored.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: Charmion
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 01:47 PM

My office is on the fourth floor of a Class 2 building (i.e., constructed to withstand fairly substantial earthquakes, tornadoes and other super-stressors). I was sitting at my desk, talking to the Major who was leaning over the Les Nessman wall.

I heard a loud rumble like thunder or a passing train, but constant, and then the floor and the walls started to bounce and the desk top began to vibrate. The cup of water beside my computer slopped all over the desk.

The Major said, "What is that? Is that an earthquake?"

I said, "I do believe it is."

And then it was all over.

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: Becca72
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 02:24 PM

Didn't feel it myself but someone calling from an office nearby (in Portland) did.

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jun 10 - 01:48 PM

Heckuva quake to felt from Maine to Oregon!

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jun 10 - 10:38 AM

How will this effect Niagra Falls?

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jun 10 - 10:02 PM

They're now called "Niagra Drippy Faucet".

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: Micca
Date: 27 Jun 10 - 01:39 PM

Charmion, Thats EXACTLY what I would epect you to say, and in that manner!! (I can hear the tone of voice almost!!!) LOL!!
I think its the Quebeckers trying once again to seperate from the rest of Canada!!

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 27 Jun 10 - 11:59 PM

My husband and I studied the map of Canada and saw how nearly the St Lawrence River approximates a straight line. We wondered if it was a rift zone. It seems that it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_rift_system

People in Milwaukee, 680 miles away, say that they felt it.

Subject: RE: BS: Earthquake Ontario-Quebec border region
From: Becca72
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 08:53 AM

Rap,

I was, of course, referring to the better Portland...on the east coast. :-)