Did You Feel It, Too?

[Sockeye]

Earthquake up here, shipmates.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/sto...arthquake.html

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1614941/

Apparently not an unheard of occurrence, but definitely interesting. A 5.0 magnitude quake for those more in the know than me.

The building here shook like a soundless tuning fork for a few moments, but everything's cool. And by "everything's cool", I mean the newsmen have something other than G20 protests to go apesh!t over.

EDIT:

Originally reported as a 5.5 magnitude, but now a 5.0 "moderate".

[CCIP]

Yep. The house was going side to side here, it was really strange. I thought it was a tornado at first since we have severe thunderstorms on the way here. Apparently it was "19km deep, centered approximately 61km north of ottawa", which is EXACTLY where my parents live. Called them, they're fine, apparently in their area there was deafening rumbling, but the shaking itself wasn't too bad (although their house stands on stilts in a lake bed, which probably softened it quite a lot).

That reached pretty far though - as I say, my house was swaying, and that's about 400 miles from the epicentre...

[Méo]

didn't feel anything, it was at 1:41 PM ?

I was taking a siesta.

[Blacklight]

Funniest thing. We live in Connecticut. We didn't feel a damn thing, but my wife got sent home early from work (with pay) because the earthquake killed all the servers they work on.

[TLAM Strike]

A stack of buckets fell down at work, I guess that was the quake but I didn't feel anything. Found out it happened on the news. The Jeweler next-door noticed- all his display cases were shaking.

I asked all the customers if they felt it, most said no. One (This cute Asian nurse) thought I was pulling her leg!

[gimpy117]

yeah i was in the car! Springs tend to dampen that stuff

But it could be felt in Traverse City, MI

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

We get them all the time so, I never pay any attention to them.

To common of an occurrence here.

When I lived in Idaho we could sometimes feel tremors rolling in from your neck of the woods, after some of the larger quakes. They were very moderate and usually lasted for weeks, but it was really odd sometimes to be sitting down to dinner and suddenly see the hanging plants start swaying for no apparent reason. I guess the fault lines there have to shift around a little to accommodate California's tantrums.

Originally Posted by CCIP

Yep. The house was going side to side here, it was really strange. I thought it was a tornado at first since we have severe thunderstorms on the way here. Apparently it was "19km deep, centered approximately 61km north of ottawa", which is EXACTLY where my parents live. Called them, they're fine, apparently in their area there was deafening rumbling, but the shaking itself wasn't too bad (although their house stands on stilts in a lake bed, which probably softened it quite a lot).

That reached pretty far though - as I say, my house was swaying, and that's about 400 miles from the epicentre...

Glad your folks are unharmed. Question: how did they manage to build their home 19km underground?

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I asked all the customers if they felt it, most said no. One (This cute Asian nurse) thought I was pulling her leg!

You did remember to give the nurse her leg back, right?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

Funniest thing. We live in Connecticut. We didn't feel a damn thing, but my wife got sent home early from work (with pay) because the earthquake killed all the servers they work on.

Way back when (1974) we had a 'quake here in Salt Lake that rocked the place I was working at. When I got off and went to pick up my wife at her parents' house they told me they had felt nothing at all...but they had seen it on the Denver station they were watching on their brand-new cable TV.