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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...


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: Netizen

I just put new madrid ottowa (or however it’s spelled) into Google Images and that popped out.

I can’t vouch for its accuracy. It’s likely as accurate as anything else found on the web.


61 posted on 06/23/2010 12:33:33 PM PDT by chrisser (Starve the Monkeys!)
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To: Netizen
Anybody else finding FR painfully slow loading today?

For sure...not as bad as the past three days or so, but still pretty dreadful.

62 posted on 06/23/2010 12:34:04 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: 1000 silverlings
You could lay in bed at night and feel a low shaking, pretty much all the time

Sounds more like you lived not too far from a rail line.....that symptom isn't seismic.

63 posted on 06/23/2010 12:36:14 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: Dan Nunn

Felt it all over here in Cleveland, Ohio and suburban areas. Another Freeper posted it and people were writing in from Akron, Ohio (35 mi. south of Cleveland) New York, Michigan, Maryland, and New Jersey... and Canada. That had to be pretty significant.


64 posted on 06/23/2010 12:42:33 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Where are you? I was in North Royalton, Ohio and felt it very significantly. Have heard reports coming in from friends all over - Akron, Independence, Twinsburg, Ohio City, etc. that have felt it also.


65 posted on 06/23/2010 12:43:54 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: WKUHilltopper

That’s what I was thinking, exactly.


66 posted on 06/23/2010 12:52:26 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: chrisser; Quix

That is the New Madrid Fault?

Whew.


67 posted on 06/23/2010 12:59:23 PM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: chrisser

Where did you find that info?

Here’s link to Wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone


68 posted on 06/23/2010 1:06:32 PM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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Earthquakes that occur there potentially threaten parts of seven U.S. states: Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi.


69 posted on 06/23/2010 1:07:32 PM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: Dan Nunn

Blame Canada, it’s one of their faults!


70 posted on 06/23/2010 1:10:08 PM PDT by yield 2 the right
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To: Paved Paradise

Sagamore Hills. Maybe I’m getting numb in my dotage! But the cats were both sleeping right close by, and they didn’t budge.


71 posted on 06/23/2010 1:11:02 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Joya

Here:

http://newine.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/new-madrid-far-and-wide/

Referencing:

http://www.aapg.org/explorer/2002/11nov/rift_zone.cfm

I guess I should have looked harder - it appears the map references a theory and not consensus. I just did a google image search and found the first map that included the U.S. and Canada.

Interesting, though, that it occured so soon after the uncontrolled oil seapage in the gulf. Of course, correlation doesn’t imply causality.

If we go another 60 days and have another quake along the line, it might add credence to the theory.


72 posted on 06/23/2010 1:15:15 PM PDT by chrisser (Starve the Monkeys!)
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from the same article,

... New Madrid, trees were knocked down and riverbanks collapsed. This event shook windows and furniture in Washington, D.C., rang bells in Richmond, Virginia, sloshed well water and shook houses in Charleston, South Carolina, and knocked plaster off of houses in Columbia, South Carolina. In Jefferson, Indiana, furniture moved and in Lebanon, Ohio, residents fled their homes. Observers in Herculaneum, Missouri, called it “severe” and claimed it had a duration of 10–12 minutes.

Aftershocks were felt every six to ten minutes, a total of 27, in New Madrid until what was called the Daylight Shock, which was of the same intensity as the first. Many of these were also felt throughout the eastern US, though with less intensity than the initial earthquake.


73 posted on 06/23/2010 1:18:41 PM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: chrisser

Thanks much for that clarification.


74 posted on 06/23/2010 1:21:43 PM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Just a fiver....small potatoes.

To a So Cal native..yea... but to some newbee in Toronto Canada?...they were crapping bricks

75 posted on 06/23/2010 1:44:50 PM PDT by tophat9000 (.............................. BP + BO = BS ...........................Formula for a disaster...)
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To: Paved Paradise

I was listening to sports radio at about 2:30PM and a guy said he was in a meeting in Marlton NJ and they felt a shaking. Didn’t notice anything in Philly.


76 posted on 06/23/2010 1:54:51 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

LOL. Maybe they only wake for the 7.0 and up.


77 posted on 06/23/2010 2:33:15 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Stentor

I heard a few people from NJ say they felt it. Judging by the epicenter, now I see why.


78 posted on 06/23/2010 2:33:53 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Dan Nunn
Didn't feel a thing in California...

;o

79 posted on 06/23/2010 2:37:44 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: Dan Nunn
Sooooo, there are Midwest floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes in the southern gulf states, now earthquakes....

I'm so glad I live in California!

Lets hope the mammoth New Madrid fault never lets go!

80 posted on 06/23/2010 2:43:03 PM PDT by dragnet2
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