# Earthquake? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/658600 "2013-05-17T13:46:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/658600/1 "2013-05-17T13:46:35Z")
What just hit me in Eastern Ontario? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/658600/2 "2013-05-17T13:59:04Z")
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](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=M%205.2%20-%20Southern%20Ontario%2C%20Canada@45.810001,-76.690002&z=6) More Information (while available): [Earthquake - Magnitude 4.9 - SOUTHERN ONTARIO, CANADA - 2013 May 17, 13:43:22 UTC](http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=317523) Data provided by European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/658600/3 "2013-05-17T14:02:19Z")
Just 100 miles from Mont Tremblant, appropriately enough. Looks pretty rural - any reports of damage or injuries? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/658600/4 "2013-05-17T14:08:38Z")
Sorry. That was us practicing in Jonquière. Desolé. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/658600/5 "2013-05-17T20:21:09Z")
I was on the subway at the time; didn’t notice a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/658600/6 "2013-05-17T22:34:38Z")
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.’ ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/658600/7 "2013-05-17T23:28:53Z")
…was it Cirque du Tremblement? 😉 _Boom!_ _Shaka-laka-laka!_ _Boom!_ _Shaka-laka-laka!_ ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/658600/8 "2013-05-18T13:00:55Z")
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](http://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index-eng.php) at Natural Resources and click on the report to be able to provide input on what you felt at what location for the quake. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/658600/9 "2013-05-20T00:33:32Z")
We felt it here in N.E. Ohio. I remember seeing concentric waves in my coffee. ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/658600/10 "2013-05-20T04:47:12Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > 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.’ 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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virginia_earthquake) 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 recently[completed the scaffolding](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94G1Mm_FuPw) around the [Washington Monument](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument) to work on the repairs needed from the quake. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/658600/11 "2013-05-20T19:39:48Z")
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.