Earthquake in Canada

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23 Jun 2010, 1:16 pm

My room shook a little while ago and I wondered what was happening. Now I'm watching the news, apparently it was a 5.5 earthquake! Bizarre.

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23 Jun 2010, 1:33 pm

felt it here in MA too!

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23 Jun 2010, 1:33 pm

My apartment shook, too. Freaked me out.

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23 Jun 2010, 1:44 pm

I felt it.

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23 Jun 2010, 2:03 pm

Movers and shakers topic

I am in Barrie, and felt nothing.

Could it be the effect of Fortress Toronto and Huntsville's fake lake? :twisted:

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23 Jun 2010, 2:03 pm

I felt it here in Buffalo, NY.

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23 Jun 2010, 2:06 pm

I didn't feel it here in the Finger Lakes region, by my friends and family in Rochester did. Both areas are about the same distance from the epicenter, and a bit closer than lotuspuppy in Buffalo, so I would have expected to feel something. Since I didn't, I'm trying to figure out why.

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23 Jun 2010, 2:10 pm

I felt it here too (near London, Ontario). I thought my body was doing something weird (low blood sugar or something) because my body that was touching the couch was moving but I didn't feel my feet on the coffee table moving. At first I thought it was my cat grooming exuberantely cleaning herself on the couch beside me but she wasn't there! It was felt in quite a large area Usa and Canada

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23 Jun 2010, 3:06 pm

I felt something, but it turns out that it was my dish-washing machine finishing up

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23 Jun 2010, 9:01 pm

I didn't know Canada had earthquakes. How often do they occur?

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23 Jun 2010, 9:03 pm

Descartes wrote:

I didn't know Canada had earthquakes. How often do they occur?

Where I live I only recall ever having 3. I didn't feel the 2nd one. It's nothing major (here) really. Just feels like your chair or couch rumbles although I suppose it would be worse if you were in a tall building near the top.

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23 Jun 2010, 10:55 pm

SamwiseGamgee wrote:

My room shook a little while ago and I wondered what was happening. Now I'm watching the news, apparently it was a 5.5 earthquake! Bizarre.

5.5 is about the size where I start debating getting out of bed.

If you live in California long enough you start to be able to estimate how big an earthquake is, and a 5.5 isn't going to do any damage.

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24 Jun 2010, 12:28 am

John_Browning wrote:

SamwiseGamgee wrote:

My room shook a little while ago and I wondered what was happening. Now I'm watching the news, apparently it was a 5.5 earthquake! Bizarre.

5.5 is about the size where I start debating getting out of bed.

If you live in California long enough you start to be able to estimate how big an earthquake is, and a 5.5 isn't going to do any damage.

I wasn't suggesting that it was big (though it did extend pretty far), that's just the number they said on the news. I think they've decided it was a 5 now. The exclamation point in my post was for the "earthquake" part rather than the number. We don't get earthquakes here that I'm aware of, so I was surprised that there was one at all. It was weird.

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