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Earthquake shakes central Canada, US states
Toronto Globe and Mail ^ | June 23, 2010

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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TOPICS: Canada; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Missouri; US: New York
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; earthquake; earthquakes; eq; mi; midwest; missouri; newmadrid; newmadridfault; oh; quake; quakes
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To: chrisser

Where did you find that?


41 posted on 06/23/2010 11:29:59 AM PDT by Netizen
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To: Dan Nunn

How long until we have “I Survived the Great Quake of 2010” T-shirts?


42 posted on 06/23/2010 11:30:04 AM PDT by Dan Nunn (Support the NRA!)
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To: 1000 silverlings
“lol, I was in an old house in LA once and the whole thing started moving lengthwise, there was another family in the front part, and as I’m looking at the garage sliding, I was thinking “Whatever is that woman doing over there?””

A good story, but that sounds more like a story from San Francisco in the late 60’s!

43 posted on 06/23/2010 11:34:00 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland ("And for that matter what do we REALLY know about HereInTheHeartland?")
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To: Netizen
Anybody else finding FR painfully slow loading today?

Yep, and getting error messages after posting at times as well... :-(

44 posted on 06/23/2010 11:34:11 AM PDT by nutmeg (Obama should call Joe the Plumber to fix that leak in the Gulf)
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To: Constitutions Grandchild

I sometimes give that some thought too, but if you’re living on beachfront, I may be living under 200 feet of water. ;^)

Gurgle!!!


45 posted on 06/23/2010 11:35:58 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (06/15/2010 Obama's Shame-Wow address...)
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To: Dan Nunn; Joya

There’s the largish one in Canada . . . I doubt that one’s big enough to have been felt in Baltimore.

Seems like they are quite slow in putting anything up for Ohio etc.


46 posted on 06/23/2010 11:36:17 AM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

San Fernando valley 1977


47 posted on 06/23/2010 11:38:03 AM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: Netizen

Definitely felt it here - just SE of Grand Rapids. It wasn’t too strong but, having lived for 20 years in California, I know one when I feel it.


48 posted on 06/23/2010 11:38:16 AM PDT by happyathome
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To: Catholic Canadian

“I actually got a little ticked off, I thought workers were screwing around.”

Funny you say that I was with my manager in his office on a phone call, he first thought I was shaking his chair, then we noticed the monitors and the book shelves shaking too LOL.


49 posted on 06/23/2010 11:38:24 AM PDT by battousai (Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)
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To: chrisser; Joya

WOW.

Incredible.

It doesn’t appear to go into the Gulf . . . unless there are some faults missing that folks just haven’t connected with it, yet.


50 posted on 06/23/2010 11:40:26 AM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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To: happyathome

Interesting since I’m SW of GR as well and those of us in the house here didn’t feel it.


51 posted on 06/23/2010 11:41:10 AM PDT by Netizen
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To: 1000 silverlings

“low shaking, pretty much all the time”

Didn’t know that, thanks for the info


52 posted on 06/23/2010 11:45:03 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Dan Nunn

I live in Toronto - and I certainly felt it - the room shook, my computer monitor actually swayed back and forth - and my rabbit (upstairs) began thumping loudly and madly to show his fear. It lasted approximately 15-20 seconds. When I stood up, I swayed in concert with the waving room. I did hear a sound precede the shaking, sort of a muted growl. I thought there had been an explosion outside, then realized it was an earthquake - so very rare here.


53 posted on 06/23/2010 12:10:35 PM PDT by border bud
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To: Dan Nunn

I live in Toronto - and I certainly felt it - the room shook, my computer monitor actually swayed back and forth - and my rabbit (upstairs) began thumping loudly and madly to show his fear. It lasted approximately 15-20 seconds. When I stood up, I swayed in concert with the waving room. I did hear a sound precede the shaking, sort of a muted growl. I thought there had been an explosion outside, then realized it was an earthquake - so very rare here.


54 posted on 06/23/2010 12:10:46 PM PDT by border bud
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To: Dan Nunn
Tectonic-pre-doom ping.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

55 posted on 06/23/2010 12:10:55 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Lucky9teen
Why can’t a big quake hit DC....right where the capital building and white house sits...?

How about a massive sink hole instead?

I live only 40 miles from the White House and "The Hill" and would rather not get nailed here.

A large sink hole could eat up the entire mess there and do the same good.

56 posted on 06/23/2010 12:12:22 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Just a fiver....small potatoes.

Not small here in the Midwest. The substrata here is completely different from out west and quakes are felt for hundreds of miles at what seems like greater intensity.

57 posted on 06/23/2010 12:12:53 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: OldMissileer

Ok, that would work. ;)


58 posted on 06/23/2010 12:19:23 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (I'll just say the 2nd amendment to the Constitution is there for a reason!)
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To: buccaneer81

Good point and one that has to be made quite often. If/when New Madrid does cook off? Everyone from StL/Memphis/Jackson/ will be hanging on to their ass. Their assets as well. And pity the poor gamblers in Tunica...


59 posted on 06/23/2010 12:22:35 PM PDT by donozark (British Army:Fighting Proudly in Afghanistan-since 1839...)
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To: Dan Nunn

Sorry, if you have to ask if it counts you can’t cross it off.


60 posted on 06/23/2010 12:28:28 PM PDT by mcshot (The compounding nightmare is never-ending and growing.)
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