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5.5 Earthquake Hits Canada; Felt in US Midwest, New England
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.
Get a map... its the east side of Canada.
Yes, Toronto is ego central though...
http://xkcd.com/723/
At first I thought it was because the US won their group on the world championship. But then I realised the are no football fans in America.
I felt it in my basement apartment in Toronto.
But was it really an earthquake, or did the thought of all those politicians gathering for the G20 make the ground vomit?
-I only code in BASIC.-
I'm from California, a 5.5 is about a large truck going by. One time, we had a 5.4 in the Bay Area and it was one of those quick jolt ones. I thought the fat guy in the apartment above me fell down. I think we had a 5-something last week, I didn't notice since I was at Disneyland.
I didn't get touched, I'm in Alberta, but our Branches out in the Toronto Area felt it quite a bit.
Latitude = 43.6325, Longitude = -79.6601
Lat = 43 degrees, 38.0 minutes North
Long = 79 degrees, 39.6 minutes West
Our only Tech out there emailed and asked if our systems were capable of withstanding 5.5 Earthquakes.
We emailed back "We don't know!!! Is everything running? Power okay? Any one sent in any IT Requests?"
To which he responded, "Everything looks good. We're all fine by the way, thanks for checking."
Quebec's finally separating!
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We actually tried to continue our meeting but then they finally got to our floor to check it out they found us and told us to leave. As you can guess, no more work is really being done today.
You know, as a resident of Southern California, I don't get many opportunities to call anybody else a weenie*...
* :)
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
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.
...but do NOT post your zip+4 code, as that would be a huge invasion of privacy. :D
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
I looked outside and saw wrecked cars strewn about. Some cars are overturned and on fire. Some buildings appear to be deteriorating in front of my very eyes.
They I remembered I'm in Upstate New York. People here can't drive. The state is broke. Yesterday looked pretty much the same.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Rouge waves? Well if you're in the gulf maybe, though more of a brown/black wave...
Thank God. That's thousands of miles from America.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
It's all of that illegal make-up dumping. It leads to rouge waves, mascara storms and glitter tornadoes.
It was pretty cool.
The key to driving in the rain in SoCal is to drive as fast possible through it; therefore you spend less time on the road and minimize your exposure to the dangers of rain.
Don't blame me, I voted for Cthulhu.
Are we talking about the same Michigan? I was on a flight that landed in Detroit at about 2pm CST, and on the way to my destination I saw NUMEROUS buildings just devastated by the earthquake, a lack of essential services, disruption of civil order, severe deterioration of roads and infrastructure, looting in broad daylight ... you name it.
They must have been near the earthquake's epicenter.
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
The surface waves may spread farther in area, but magnitude N is still magnitude N. It's like getting two feet of snow in D.C. -- it's unusual, but other people are still going to laugh at you when you freak out.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
If you're *anywhere* and you get hit by a rouge wave, I'd suggest converting to Christianity as apparently the seas have turned blood and the Rapture is nigh.
Clearly posting AC because he owns a chimney inspection service in Ottawa....