Posted on 06/23/2010 11:09:37 AM PDT by Dan Nunn
There are reports of unusual ground shaking in various parts of Ontario and Quebec, including Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal. The Toronto newsroom of The Globe and Mail shook just before 1:45 p.m. EDT. The Ottawa newsroom was evacuated at about 1:43 p.m. Various reports on Twitter suggest the earthquake was felt as far away as Ohio, New York and Michigan. A Globe reporter in Montreal said that city also shook. The earthquake shook buildings in Ottawa, where the streets are crowded with office workers who evacuated their workplaces. “We felt the building shake. It was actually it was pretty serious. It was definitely the strongest quake that I ever felt,” said Dennis Choquette, a Globe and Mail online editor based in Ottawa. The shaking lasted about 15 seconds, Mr. Choquette said. The severity of the earthquake is not yet known. It is not yet known whether there have been any reports of injuries.
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Is this the New Madrid Fault?
It’s Bush’s fault.....
One use of Twitter - when it happened, I went to Twitter to search for the term ‘earthquake’ to see if anyone else felt it. And boy, did they.
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Just a fiver....small potatoes.
I guess it was a real quake afterall.
Didn’t feel it here in MI.
I didn’t feel a thing here outside of Cleveland. Both the katz are still asleep.
Out west all the Minuteman ICBMs went into PIGA Leveling.
I bet all the crews on Alert had a good time!
We’ve got a paving company paving the parking lot. If I did feel it, I wouldn’t have assumed it was an earthquake...
Bummer! Does this mean I can cross it off my ‘severe weather bucket list’? If so I’ll move on to a tornado and a hurricane!
I’m guessing Vermont, New York and that area would feel it more.
Anybody else finding FR painfully slow loading today?
Don't believe so. The New Madrid runs up the Mississippi and is in the U.S.
Loading slow for me too.
I felt it in central NY - my house shook for at least 30 seconds then to a lesser degree for a shorter period. It was strong enough to be scary. Can’t believe it was from something so far away.
I used to live right on the New Madrid fault growing up. You could lay in bed at night and feel a low shaking, pretty much all the time
Felt it bigtime here in Toronto, I actually got a little ticked off, I thought workers were screwing around.
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