# I think I just felt an earthquake! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 23, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255 "2010-06-23T17:57:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/41 "2010-06-23T21:38:51Z")
> [@detop](#): > > I’m in Montreal and I didn’t feel it :(:(. As for Quebec separating, that might have been the case if it had occured tomorrow (Quebec Dopers will understand :D). This Ontario Doper got it 🙂 (only because a meeting we couldn’t schedule the meeting we wanted with some Québec associates) ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/42 "2010-06-23T23:20:51Z")
I’m in Waterloo and I didn’t feel it. However, I think that I was on the phone with the CRA at the time, so my attention was focused elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/43 "2010-06-23T23:24:32Z")
Yeah, I was shaking as well in Erie PA. I thought it was a big heavy truck that passed by my office but it went on for too long a time. Weird feeling. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Venom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Lady\_Venom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Venom)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/44 "2010-06-23T23:38:38Z")
I’m in Ottawa, and oooh boy did we feel it! It was fun. Our receptionist bolted outside about 10 seconds into it. hehe ---
**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:** [June 23, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/45 "2010-06-23T23:46:11Z")
> [@Nature\_s\_Call](#): > > [singing]I feel the earth, move, under my feet…[/singing] I went to the food store after work and guess what they were playing on the ceiling speakers… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/46 "2010-06-23T23:54:24Z")
I was thinking about the G20 preparations and was very glad I wasn’t standing at the security fence. I can just imagine the shaking ground would have caused at least one officer to panic a little. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Doctor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/47 "2010-06-24T00:05:49Z")
I’m very sorry, but this earthquake might be all my fault I’m afraid… You see, a friend of mine went to Toronto last Friday from here in LA and I forgot the check and make sure she did not have any stray earthquakes stuck in her luggage. Apparently she did and now it has gotten loose and shaken you poor folks up in Ontario, Canada. I am terribly sorry about this and I will endeavor to ensure that such a lapse does not occur again. Again, my apologies for any inconvenience experienced. 😃 ---
**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:** [June 24, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/48 "2010-06-24T00:13:30Z")
I was on the second floor at Place du Portage and the whole building was shaking. They evacuated us a few minutes afterwards and then told us to go home after a while. You could go back into the building if you needed anything you’d left behind, but only with an escort. (I don’t think there was any damage to the structure, but they may have needed to reset the fire alarm system or some other safety-critical system before they could allow anyone back in.) ---
**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:** [June 24, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/49 "2010-06-24T00:55:42Z")
> [@Doctor](#): > > I’m very sorry, but this earthquake might be all my fault I’m afraid… > > You see, a friend of mine went to Toronto last Friday from here in LA and I forgot the check and make sure she did not have any stray earthquakes stuck in her luggage. Apparently she did and now it has gotten loose and shaken you poor folks up in Ontario, Canada. I am terribly sorry about this and I will endeavor to ensure that such a lapse does not occur again. Again, my apologies for any inconvenience experienced. No problem. It was an amusing change of routine. If it have been any larger, though, we’d have had to set the ice weasels and/or snow snakes on you. And they’re _mean_ when we interrupt their summer hibernation. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/50 "2010-06-24T01:21:38Z")
I’m in the central part of NY State and we felt it (though I was out driving at the time and didn’t know it until later). The TV news people are SO excited. It’s been 30 some years since we felt an earthquake; that previous one I think originated in the Adirondacks. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/51 "2010-06-24T02:48:53Z")
Holy Apocolypse! First the earthquake this afternoon. Now we hear on the radio that there’s a tornado warning for our area! What next, locusts? ---
**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:** [June 24, 2010, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/52 "2010-06-24T02:58:11Z")
> [@Nature\_s\_Call](#): > > Holy Apocolypse! > > First the earthquake this afternoon. Now we hear on the radio that there’s a tornado warning for our area! > > What next, locusts? Are you sure you’re not in a disaster movie? ---
**Author:** ![mcott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@mcott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcott)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/53 "2010-06-24T03:04:13Z")
> [@Bookkeeper](#): > > I was on the second floor at Place du Portage and the whole building was shaking. They evacuated us a few minutes afterwards and then told us to go home after a while. You could go back into the building if you needed anything you’d left behind, but only with an escort. (I don’t think there was any damage to the structure, but they may have needed to reset the fire alarm system or some other safety-critical system before they could allow anyone back in.) Got one better than that 🙂 I thought a fire engine finally careened out of control and hit my house - Bronson and Gladstone area in Ottawa. Went to pick up my mother at the train station, and was informed that due to needing to check the track, the train would be three hours late. After that, drove to my father’s place to get soccer highlights. His partner was home, and she mentioned that while Place shook (11th floor), it wasn’t that bad. Unfortunately, a colleague (she’s at CIDA) who was out on the terrace and had been in Haiti at the time of the big one shoved his way away from the table he was at, ran and jumped off the patio area, looking to flee. No injuries, but damn, PTSD anyone? Nothing further to add, just an odd story. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/54 "2010-06-24T03:07:53Z")
> [@mcott](#): > > Unfortunately, a colleague (she’s at CIDA) who was out on the terrace and had been in Haiti at the time of the big one shoved his way away from the table he was at, ran and jumped off the patio area, looking to flee. No injuries, but damn, PTSD anyone? Understandable, actually. I read one report of a lady who was outside when the Haiti quake struck, just chatting with a neighbour over the fence, and she was thrown _ten metres_. And according to CBC, there was significant damage near the epicentre of our quake. My friend said it knocked books off the shelves of the bookstore here in Bancroft. [sub]Edit: Post # 20,000?! How’d that happen?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/55 "2010-06-24T04:34:56Z")
Was in Bradford just before heading into work, at timmies fueling up. At first I thought it was a strong gust of wind rockin my truck, and then I noticed the truck was rocking forwards as well. I thought I was being pranked by someone, till I logged on facebook and seen the earthquake posts. Declan ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/56 "2010-06-24T17:28:54Z")
Wonder if it created a tsunami in the “fake lake” in Toronto? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/57 "2010-06-24T18:42:34Z")
The CBC call-in radio show “Ontario Today” had the earthquake as one of it’s topics for discussion. The very last caller of the segment was a gentleman from Bancroft. Before **Sunspace** ’s post, I had never heard of Bancroft (aside from Anne). It would be a so-way-cool coincidence if that caller was **Sunspace** , so I must ask: **Sunspace** , was that you? ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/58 "2010-06-24T19:00:37Z")
> [@Nature\_s\_Call](#): > > Holy Apocolypse! > > First the earthquake this afternoon. Now we hear on the radio that there’s a tornado warning for our area! > > What next, locusts? Funny you should say that. Locusts were my first suggestion to my co-workers since I felt we were having an appropriately biblical day. ---
**Author:** ![apollonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/59 "2010-06-25T02:18:23Z")
Broken dishes here in Ottawa–that’ll teach my roommate and I to stack the dishrack overly full! I guess we’ve been spoiled by the thousands and thousands of days we’ve had where the earth was perfectly still–now we’ve got a couple broken glasses. Thank goodness for Corelle, is all I have to say. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/60 "2010-06-25T02:38:36Z")
> [@Nature\_s\_Call](#): > > The CBC call-in radio show “Ontario Today” had the earthquake as one of it’s topics for discussion. The very last caller of the segment was a gentleman from Bancroft. > > Before **Sunspace** ’s post, I had never heard of Bancroft (aside from Anne). > > It would be a so-way-cool coincidence if that caller was **Sunspace** , so I must ask: **Sunspace** , was that you? Unfortunately, no, it wasn’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255.md?page=4)