What just hit me in Eastern Ontario?
Magnitude: 5.2
Location: Southern Ontario, Canada
Time: Fri, May 17, 2013, 9:43:24 EDT
GMT: Fri, May 17, 2013 13:43:24 GMT
Latitude: 45° 48’ 36" N (45.8100°)
Longitude: 76° 41’ 24" W (-76.6900°)
Depth: 6.2 mi
Map: Google Maps
More Information (while available): Earthquake - Magnitude 4.9 - SOUTHERN ONTARIO, CANADA - 2013 May 17, 13:43:22 UTC
Data provided by European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre.
Stranger
Just 100 miles from Mont Tremblant, appropriately enough.
Looks pretty rural - any reports of damage or injuries?
Sorry. That was us practicing in Jonquière. Desolé.
I was on the subway at the time; didn’t notice a thing.
I’ve a friend in California that I talk to a lot…her response when I mentioned the quake:
‘I’ve probably slept through more earthquakes than most people have experienced.’
…was it Cirque du Tremblement? 
Boom! Shaka-laka-laka!
Boom! Shaka-laka-laka!
I felt it. On the second floor of a quite large office building in Gatineau and the shaking was very apparent. You can go to the Earthquakes Canada site at Natural Resources and click on the report to be able to provide input on what you felt at what location for the quake.
We felt it here in N.E. Ohio. I remember seeing concentric waves in my coffee.
I think one of the things people who live in earthquake prone areas don’t realize is that in areas where there are few fault lines the earthquakes tend to travel further and with more gusto than a California or Alaska quake.
For example the East Coast Quake of Mineral, VA in 2011 was ‘only’ a 5.8, and was laughed at by many who thought it wasn’t that big a deal, yet in the above quoted article it is pointed out “The quake was felt across more than a dozen U.S. states and in several Canadian provinces, and was felt by more people than any other quake in U.S. history.”
So sure, I understand to the earthquake veterans folks who don’t often feel them may seem to overreact, but in my book people who have not felt one of these odd, out of the way, Eastern earthquakes might be surprised by them.
At the time I lived 20 miles from the epicenter of the VA earthquake. I was standing in the living room of the house I was renting when everything started to vibrate rapidly. Felt like the house was sitting on a huge subwolfer that buzzed for a good 30 seconds or more.
Glad to have experienced it.
They have recentlycompleted the scaffolding around the Washington Monument to work on the repairs needed from the quake.
From what I have read the Mineral VA quake was felt strongly and widely because of the more rocky crust on the East Coast. DC is 100 miles north and still took damage from it.