Montreal Quake
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I never expected I would leave San Francisco and experience a quake in Montreal. It was pretty slight here, but I definitely noticed something.
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I never expected I would leave San Francisco and experience a quake in Montreal. It was pretty slight here, but I definitely noticed something.
And it’s already on Wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Ontario_earthquake
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/723/
You and me both – I felt it down here in West Hartford, CT. At first I thought I had just sat down too fast, then it was a “Wait a minute… this feels familiar…”
Strongest quake we’ve felt here in quite a while. Apparently it could even be felt in Toronto!
I’m on the South Shore of Montreal. SouthWesterners might have chuckled at our tremor but for a resident it was pretty freaky. 5.7 on the old scale, so they say. Being surrounded by walls of books (in my little home office) I got up and headed outside. The streets weren’t opened up and the bricks were all still hanging tight – but it did provoke some nervousness, if only for a half minute.
Live in Burlington in high rise. Doors rattled. Glasses tingled. Counter shook.
It was felt all the way over here in Flint, Michigan. Apparently, not only do I have to fear being shot while living in Flint, I also now must fear earthquakes. WTF!?
I felt it here in a highrise in Mississauga..
How Odd. I never felt a thing in the basement here. Although my Dad felt the ground shake, when he was out on the front porch…
Weird.
The epicenter was in Ottawa. Magnitude 5.5. I felt it considerably all the way in KW (Kitchener-Waterloo) which is about a 100 kilometers west of Toronto.
I work in a high-rise office building downtown Toronto on the top floor … we shuddered alot … those on lower floors didnt feel it so much … two guys bolted down the stairs as fast as they could
Was kinda concerning with the G20 here … we first thought a bomb had gone off!
I have been through several earthquakes and it seems everywhere I have been in the world to visit live or stay…The quakes normally follows me…no lol it is not due to my sexy weight of course!
I think the worst quake was a 7.1 that rocked my bed horribly around 3AM in the morning. I was in Manila Philippines at the time and I was on the phone making plane reservations to get the heck out on the next flight the following day….Earthquakes are totally frightening as well as their after affects.
Yup, even all the way down here in Toledo, OH they are saying it was a 2.x.
I live in Dundee, southwest of Montreal. When the quake happened I was upstairs in my home and it sounded like there was an elephant stomping around in the attic. I was afraid that the beams in the roof might crack. I think all is okay though.
Felt it here in Buffalo, NY. Shook my LCD monitor pretty good. Kinda cool, to be honest.
Yep, I was on St.Denis and looked out the window from the coffeeshop, and the glass was rippling. What brings you to Montreal Matt?
Jazz fest and general summer merriment.
I am not 100% certain of this however I sit in a part of a building (in New England) that is fairly unstable and it definitely shook yesterday… enough that I asked a co-worker if we’d had a quake (I too spent many years in California and know what they feel like).
PS. Your page is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
So bummed that I missed it!
Felt it here in Rochester Hills, MI. (north of Detroit). It shook my chair.