I'm in Ottawa, and I JUST experienced this. It's funny cause Im sitting here trying to find someone to talk to about this, and then I saw this post.
Edit: Pretty crazy, never felt anything like that. Probably pretty tame compared to people in the states who deal with them more than us, but stuff was actually falling over. Crazy.
ya, i'm not saying that it was huge but considering ive never felt one like that. Alot of times before it was small and i dismissed off as my imagination. This time it was more than a second and things shook.
" ya, i'm not saying that it was huge but considering ive never felt one like that. Alot of times before it was small and i dismissed off as my imagination. This time it was more than a second and things shook. "
Yeah same. I only ever experienced 1 other (that I'm aware of anyway) and I was half asleep at the time, so I thought it was a dream, but was later told it was not.
It was nothing like this though. My dog was FREAKING out
Can't be, I'm in Toronto and I didn't notice anything. Are you in the east end? "
I'm in Ottawa, felt it. My brother's in Toronto (West end) and he felt it. I've heard people from NY and Ohio got some as well. "
It must have happened when a plane was flying over, my house is directly underneath the approach path of two runways at Pearson Intl. Airport. Either way, I still didn't feel anything.
Apparently the one that hit Haiti was a 7. That's what I'm being told anyway. Although this certainly didn't feel like anything too harmful, at least where I am
@FrankCanada97: People really close to each other can have very different experiences. When we had an earthquake last year, I felt it lots but my friend down my street felt nothing.
@FrankCanada97: That's brutal. There's way too much air-traffic in Toronto. Kudos on your patience.
Oh, and I certainly heard this earthquake. Can't be sure if I'm hearing the actual earth or the junk we've build jangling around above it. But it sounded a lot like I imagined. A lot of bass-ey rumble.
Cross-posted from the newer thread. You guys are too crazy fast.
According to the USGS maps at least 10 small quakes have happened in this region so far this year, and hundreds since 1990. That site is pretty interesting if you're a nerd.
From the site - "People in the large Western Quebec seismic zone have felt small earthquakes and suffered damage from larger ones for three centuries. The two largest damaging earthquakes occurred in 1935 (magnitude 6.1) at the northwestern end of the seismic zone, and in 1732 (magnitude 6.2) 450 km (280 mi) away at the southeastern end of the zone where it caused significant damage in Montreal. Earthquakes cause damage in the zone about once a decade. Smaller earthquakes are felt three or four times a year. "
The stupid media are shitting bricks about this. The Globe and Mail even has a fucking liveblog. What the hell?
" I'm in Montreal and I didn't hear or feel a thing. "
Me too. But I had my headphones on and all my attention was focused on Chrono Trigger so maybe that's why. My dad who was in the same room as me felt it, though, and actually told me we had an earthquake. Weird.
Weird. What time of day did this happen? The power went out here in New Brunswick around 8:00 am/9:00am. Maybe it had something to do with that? I was asleep most of the day so if it did effect this far east I never felt it.
" The stupid media are shitting bricks about this. The Globe and Mail even has a fucking liveblog. What the hell? "
It's something interesting and unusual on a slow day, I don't see the big deal. "
plus we don't get natural disasters in this neck of woods. Last major one was the ice storm and i was like 8. "
while that's true, we don't, but did you forget about that tornado a while ago already? tore up a buncha houses. apparently a tornado's on it's way tonight (ontario), but that's probably a steaming pile of bs.
" Weird. What time of day did this happen? The power went out here in New Brunswick around 8:00 am/9:00am. Maybe it had something to do with that? I was asleep most of the day so if it did effect this far east I never felt it. "
I used to sleep through earthquakes when I lived in California. I did visit again last year and one happend, it was weird being in on after so long. Hasn't happened lower here on the East coast though. I guess you guys up North just aren't lucky.
" Weird. What time of day did this happen? The power went out here in New Brunswick around 8:00 am/9:00am. Maybe it had something to do with that? I was asleep most of the day so if it did effect this far east I never felt it. "
1:41pm EST. You were probably too far anyways. "
Any one else see the irony of Quebec getting hit with an Earthquake? They are always screaming about separating from Canada, now they might get their chance. lol
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