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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.
You're an hour too late. We've already beat this topic to death on mailing lists, twitter, fark and facebook.
Nothing to see here, GBTW.
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Steven Harper, beware, the GOD is watching you, 1 billion CAD is a way too much for G8/G20... And we, the regular people are going to pay the bill.
I don't like seeing the big maple leaf on Slashdot. I like Canada to be unnoticed. That's where it's safe.
Canada managed to ride out most of the last wave of economic melt down, (thanks to keeping regulations in place.) It's manage to stay out of the bulk of unnecessary wars. Though, with Harper in power and Canadians descending into "Dumb" too quickly to notice that their voting choices are INSANE, I suppose it was going to be inevitable that things would start to get ugly around here.
Here's how it works. . .
There is no "matter" in the universe; it's all energy right down to the smallest level. Every "particle" breaks down to reveal more vast expanses of empty. Matter truly is an illusion; everything is just energy vibrating in a medium of nothing. So what's the difference between a thought and a brick? They're both made of energetic nothing, but the thought pattern is more alive and dynamic than the brick. Here in the giant dream of reality, consciousness is king.
As such, I see everything which happens in the physical realm as being a metaphor little different than the objects and events which show up in dreams. So. . , earthquakes in Canada, eh?
Well, on the 26th, the G20 is landing in Toronto, and the government has spent approximately a BILLION dollars on security, including controversial sound cannons.
Yay. The problem with big ticket government purchases which keep thousands of people employed is that such expenses need to be justified. None of those thousands of employed people are going to want to have to go looking for work. Even in Canada's only slightly singed economic environment people fear losing their jobs. So. . , what keeps a billion dollars worth of security goons employed?
My guts are tied up in some knots over this because it seems very reasonable to expect violence at this clown show.
At least the earthquake didn't knock any buildings down or kill anybody.
-FL