About ten minutes ago, the house started to shake. I thought maybe a large truck was going by outside, but we’re on a small dead-end road south of Bancroft and there was nothing outside. It was definitely the whole house vibrating though…
I just checked the Toronto Star and found this breaking report.
If it was an earthquake, it’s the first one I’ve ever felt.
I’m in Windsor Ontario and our building just shook. Happens from time to time when a big truck rolls by, but this was nothing like that.
Further, a cow-orker was talking with someone in our Toronto office, who said “Can I hang up, our building’s shaking” Two minutes later our building shook.
Toronto is about 4-5 hour drive to Windsor.
I’ve never felt anything like this! My chair rolled back and forth on its casters for a good 5-10 seconds!
Our office is all abuzz. I guess there goes productivity!
Yep, I’m in the second floor of my house, and I could feel the whole place shaking for about ten seconds.
I remember the last earthquake just rattled the cupboard doors - this one I could feel the whole house moving. Freaky!
Around 1:45? I felt it in Bancroft. :eek:
Yep, felt it here at Yonge & King. Reminded me a bit of sitting in a rocking chair. Odd feeling.
Yes! Whoa!
Friends from Ottawa and Montréal felt it, too.
USGS is reporting something in the 5 range in western Quebec. link to map.
People here in Michigan are saying they felt it, but I missed it. It’s okay, I’m from California and have been though my share of earthquakes.
eta: looking at the map, I see that the epicenter is very close to Ottawa.
eta #2: I misinterpreted the map. I thought that that size square indicated 5 range. What it actually means is 5 and larger. They haven’t reported a specific magnitude yet.
(already reported my dupe thread: )
Felt it in Windsor, which is almost twice as far from Toronto as Bancroft is (if my Google map distance perception can be trusted)
[singing]I feel the earth, move, under my feet…[/singing]
Merged two threads, so if the continuity is a little funky … well, blame the earthquake.
:eek: The GROUND!! :eek: IT MOVED!!!
I remember one about 12 years ago that shook the building I was in in Toronto, and the epicentre was somewhere in Ohio.
More details. About 50 km NNE of Ottawa.
mmm, no, I was right the first time, it really was in the 5 range.
I once didn’t feel an earthquake in the 6 range when I was ~50 miles away. I’m kind of amazed that people are noticing a much smaller quake, hundreds of miles away. I guess I suck at being a human seismometer.
I’m west of Toronto, near Hamilton… some of the office felt it, I missed it.
Depends where you are - I have a contractor in the basement tiling the bathroom who didn’t feel a thing. I was on the second floor and really noticed it. Some of my friends are in tall office buildings or condos and apparently from the 27th floor, it would have been hard not to notice.
I also just saw a photo from a friend on the Scarborough campus of U of T - there are cracks in the sidewalk that weren’t there this morning.
The USGS site mentions that quakes from the Ottawa Valley are often felt much further away then comparable quakes in the west. Must be all our granite bedrock.
I’m a half hour west of North Bay and felt it. Didn’t think much of it as there’s some construction going on right outside right now.
Hope my brother-in-law’s all right, he works in Ottawa and lives just a bit east of the city.
Sadly, the 2010 Earthquake Conference doesn’t start until Friday.
Where’s a policeman when you need one?
Felt it strong here in Ottawa - dust falling rom the ceiling, etc. Mother-effing fire alarm is still going off (we’d been given the all clear after evacuating).