Holy shit, earthquake!!!

i have children and pets. also grew up in socal. they kinda know the drill.

 

Quake rocks Ontario, Quebec
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 | 2:12 PM ET Comments0Recommend102CBC News
A 5.5-magnitude earthquake has hit Ontario, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Tremors were reportedly felt as far away as Montreal, Boston and Cleveland.

The first tremor hit at 1:40 p.m. ET Wednesday.

Buildings in Toronto and Ottawa were evacuated in the minutes following the tremors.

"Earthquakes across eastern Canada are definitely rare but we do have them," said Johanna Wagstaffe, a CBC seismologist and meteorologist. "There are small fault lines along Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. There is a relatively active fault line that runs parallel to the St. Lawrence Valley. It's about 1,000 kilometres long." The last major earthquake we saw on that fault line was a 5.4 magnitude earthquake in 1998, she said.

Update 2:11pm: We've learned that the earthquake has been felt all across eastern Ontario, including Toronto, Sudbury, Ottawa and Montreal.


Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/06/23/tor-earthquake.html#ixzz0rhZU9QD0

 

a 5.5 is certainly respectable.

 

Everyone has been texting me about it but I didn't feel a thing, and I'm in the basement studying so I have no clue how I missed all of this..

 

Well they say for us and the Ottawa Valley it was 5.5 and 50 miles north of Ottawa in Buckingham Quebec it was stronger and they are saying that was an epicenter.

I think we got off lucky so far.

 

That's so scary!

 

I was napping, and bolted awake because I thought someone was in the room shaking my bed...but nobody is home. Then I realized the rest of the things in the room were shaking too.

Didn't scare me, I was too disoriented. I hear they are evacuating buildings in Ottawa.

 

the lower you are in some types of quakes, the less you feel it. like underground vs the second story of your house. other ones i've noticed, it doesn't make a difference. i don't know the names for the different types of quakes, but some just jiggle side to side and others will toss you up off the grass where you're laying watching clouds.

 

Oh! Thank you for that info, maybe that's why I felt nothing.

 

yeah, there's the side so side ones we'd get and you'd jsut feel a little dizzy, but the other one, i was laying in the grass and was tossed in the air. lol. fun times.

 

I was on the second storey so I got it pretty good.

 

I was taking a nap and my bed starting rocking back and forth as though ghosts were making love on it. I thought I must be tripping balls or something and just went back to sleep, lmfao. never felt an earthquake in my life before, how strange. 5.5 is not too shabby for canuckistan

 

LOL, now there are tornado warnings. Canadian apocalypse, let's roll

 

Ugh I heard! I'm going out later so I might be in for a treat. That, or my car..

 

now tornado warnings i fear. and lightning. my kids see even a drop of hail after the big one that stopped near here and destroyed some classmates homes...they're in the basement under the stairs with pillows over them before i even have to tell them. lol. kai will never forget spending two hours in the girls' bathroom at school during the storm until the all clear.

 

Huffington Post and USGS have maps, and you can tell them if you felt it. I guess the Canadian Geologic Survey, or whatever y'all call it, is doing something similar.

Why is there a Moose Factory on that map? Thought mooses were made by other mooses.

 

Now the sky is clearing up and it's beautiful! fuuuuuuuck this shit its impossible to plan a day lately hahaha

 

^ Oh I know! So unpredictable.. I'm glad it turned out the way it did though.

Damn, I wish I got some kind of warning so I could run to the top floor of my house.. at least it's all over.

 

I didnt feel it because I was driving at the time...it wouldnt have surprised me much anyways because I live above a mine and its not really unusual for large blasts to knock pictures and stuff off the walls

 

i think they're fun. until you turn on the news and learn people have been squished and things are on fire!