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.

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Obligatory xkcd

[Jamori]

http://xkcd.com/723/

I felt it....ohhh wait.

[PieterBr]

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.

Re:I felt it....ohhh wait.

[ak3ldama]

When a 6'2" tackle who benches 620 and weighs 310lbs of solid muscle tells you he plays football, you don't question it.

Sure you can, you then let him chase you around for, say, 25 seconds and then he tires. Either that or he continues chasing you all the while wondering why no one blew a whistle yet...

felt in toronto

[theheadlessrabbit]

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?

Re:Shaking in Ottawa

[Monkeedude1212]

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."

Re:Shaking in Ottawa

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

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'm impressed!

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

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

CHAOS in Upstate New York

[damn_registrars]

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.

Re:5.5? Feh!

[Minwee]

It's all of that illegal make-up dumping. It leads to rouge waves, mascara storms and glitter tornadoes.

Re:5.5? Feh!

[lupinstel]

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.