Damn. You must be a whole lot less easily scared than I am then. I’m impressed.
I was living in Mar Vista at the time.
We were sitting down watching TV and the doggies were asleep. It was quite the vibration here in the south end of Ottawa, that’s for sure.
I stuck my head outside once it was over, and talked to the neighbors in our court. Everyone said the same thing “What was that?” I told them it was an earthquake.
Quite freaky, but not scary to me.
After the Northridge quake I fired up the Coleman lantern (there was no evidence of leaking gas) and went outside so I could watch the water slosh around in the pool. (‘Small minds are easily amused.’) My neighbours were in the court and thought that I’d brought the light out for them!. So I didn’t get to watch the water slosh around in the pool. 
As I said, there was no gas leak. But the neighbours in their panic were calling for turning the gas off. Bad idea. Once you turn it off, you have to wait for the gas company to come out and turn it back on. And how long until they get round to it? Only turn the gas off if it’s leaking. So I went and got a nice hot shower while I had my chance. (In the end, they didn’t turn it off.)
Hey, you’re still on the “ring of fire”, aren’t you? Don’t they have 'em up there in the PNW?
Rescue Ferrets! http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/ferret-bach.asp
I don’t know how ferrets would find the time to rescue anything, given their strict schedule of sleeping, pooping, and running around madly.
I’m from a mining town, but I’m living in Ottawa. At first I thought it felt like the blasting back home, but then it kept going too long. So I joked to the friend I was with “Must be an earthquake”, and went and stood in a doorframe.
It runs right through Ottawa. There’s an interesting park in town called the Hogs Back where you can see it.
I certainly didn’t feel anything here in Waterloo either. Of course, we are about 600 km away.
the area around Kingston-Ottawa-Montreal is actually one of the most seismically active areas in Canada, if I recall correctly from previous articles. Not major-cities-crumbling active, but not unusual.
I was in one earthquake when I was living in Kingston - sounds about the same as this one.
British rescue ferrets are much more organized than colonial Canadian ferrets.
Humanity and ferrets have a long relationship in England, courtesy of the time honoured sport of ferret legging: http://www.gordoni.com/found/ferret.txt
Maginitude 4.5? If we don’t get one of those in the Tokyo area every few weeks, it would be surprising.