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5.5 Earthquake Hits Canada; Felt in US Midwest, New England

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-it-wasn't-new-madrid dept.

joelmax writes "A magnitude 5.5 earthquake hit central Canada this afternoon, rattling buildings from Windsor to Montreal to several US states. The epicentre of the quake was in Quebec, 61 kilometres north of Ottawa, according to the US Geological Survey, and struck at 1:41 pm EDT." If you felt this quake, it would be great to put your location in the title of your comments, below — with lat/long coordinates even better.

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  1. WOW 5.5 mag earthquake by Neanderthal+Ninny · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I was born & lived in California most of my life and 5.5 mag is a minor inconvenience here (other than stopping the BART trains so they can check the tracks) and the most of the people on the eastern half of the country seems like a headline event.