EARTHQUAKE

smarcheesmarchee Posts: 14,539
edited June 2010 in All Encompassing Trip
just felt one at work here south of Toronto

was a little cool, and a little weird

first time ever
1998 ~ Barrie
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
2014 - Detroit
2019 - Chicago X 2
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  • PearlOfAGirlPearlOfAGirl Posts: 15,993
    Have you ever had one there before?

    Wish you were here...

    ~RIP Dad
  • Brock SamsonBrock Samson Posts: 328
    lol, shit. didn't see this thread (or the other) before i posted about this.
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  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    "You're one of the few Red Sox fans I don't mind." - Newch91

    "I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
  • smarcheesmarchee Posts: 14,539
    Have you ever had one there before?

    nope, though minor earthquakes can happen

    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.
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • Brock SamsonBrock Samson Posts: 328
    Have you ever had one there before?

    last one i remember (and i remember it well) was in 2002. epicenter of that one was in plattsburgh, ny and had a magnitude of 5.9 and was felt as far south as pennsylvania.
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  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    We had one here in Georgia a couple years back, very weird, the pictures on the walls were moving, bed shaking. Doggies very freaked out, actually moments before it happened all the dogs jumped up on the bed.
    It's strange because earthquake was the last thing I thought it was.
  • Brock SamsonBrock Samson Posts: 328
    pandora wrote:
    We had one here in Georgia a couple years back, very weird, the pictures on the walls were moving, bed shaking. Doggies very freaked out, actually moments before it happened all the dogs jumped up on the bed.
    It's strange because earthquake was the last thing I thought it was.

    yeah, that one in '02 had me scratching my head a bit at first. i was actually sleeping in, and i woke up because i heard the handles on the dresser shaking. at first i thought a very large truck was driving by the house...but the shaking was going on too long for it to be a truck. so i got up and went into the living room. it was still shaking, and my wife had a scared look on her face. she looks at me and says "what the hell's going on??" i said "i don't know....i wonder if we're having an earthquake." it was pretty funny, all the cars on the street that had car alarms on them were blaring.

    good times :)
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  • FrankieGFrankieG Posts: 9,100
    moe.ron wrote:
    i woke up because i heard the handles on the dresser shaking.

    :shock:
    That must have been extremely wierd... atleast it sounds it to me...
    2003: 7/14 NJ ... 2006: 6/1 NJ, 6/3 NJ ... 2007: 8/5 IL ... 2008: 6/24 NY, 6/25 NY, 8/7 EV NJ ... 2009: 10/27 PA, 10/28 PA, 10/30 PA, 10/31 PA
    2010: 5/20 NY, 5/21 NY ... 2011: 6/21 EV NY, 9/3 WI, 9/4 WI ... 2012: 9/2 PA, 9/22 GA ... 2013: 10/18 NY, 10/19 NY, 10/21 PA, 10/22 PA, 10/27 MD
    2015: 9/23 NY, 9/26 NY ... 2016: 4/28 PA, 4/29 PA, 5/1 NY, 5/2 NY, 6/11 TN, 8/7 MA, 11/4 TOTD PA, 11/5 TOTD PA ... 2018: 8/10 WA
    2022: 9/14 NJ ... 2024: 5/28 WA, 9/7 PA, 9/9 PA ---- http://imgur.com/a/nk0s7
  • Brock SamsonBrock Samson Posts: 328
    FrankieG wrote:
    moe.ron wrote:
    i woke up because i heard the handles on the dresser shaking.

    :shock:
    That must have been extremely wierd... atleast it sounds it to me...

    well i didn't think it was weird at first, but when it didn't stop i was all like "woah, that ain't no truck." after i had a minute or 2 to think about it, i thought it was pretty cool...and hoping nobody got hurt at the same time.
    9/1/00, 9/2/00, 9/3/00, 12/31/00, 3/2/01, 4/29/01, 6/21/01, 7/25/01, 8/31/01, 9/1/01, 9/2/01, 4/18/02, 8/30/02, 8/31/02, 8/31/02, 9/1/02, 9/22/02, 3/22/03, 5/6/03, 6/29/03, 8/29/03, 8/30/03, 8/30/03, 8/31/03, 2/21/04, 4/2/04, 4/3/04, 9/3/04, 9/4/04, 9/4/04, 9/5/04, 2/19/05, 7/22/05, 9/2/05, 9/3/05, 9/3/05, 9/4/05, 1/22/06, 6/7/06, 9/1/06, 9/2/06, 9/2/06, 9/3/06, 7/6/07, 8/31/07, 9/1/07, 9/1/07, 9/2/07, 3/7/08, 8/29/08, 8/30/08, 8/30/08, 8/31/08, 7/11/09, 6/4/10, 6/11/11
  • milarsomilarso Posts: 1,280
    Felt it here in Detroit! Very weird!
    "The dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' her easy for all us sinners."
  • Brock SamsonBrock Samson Posts: 328
    9/1/00, 9/2/00, 9/3/00, 12/31/00, 3/2/01, 4/29/01, 6/21/01, 7/25/01, 8/31/01, 9/1/01, 9/2/01, 4/18/02, 8/30/02, 8/31/02, 8/31/02, 9/1/02, 9/22/02, 3/22/03, 5/6/03, 6/29/03, 8/29/03, 8/30/03, 8/30/03, 8/31/03, 2/21/04, 4/2/04, 4/3/04, 9/3/04, 9/4/04, 9/4/04, 9/5/04, 2/19/05, 7/22/05, 9/2/05, 9/3/05, 9/3/05, 9/4/05, 1/22/06, 6/7/06, 9/1/06, 9/2/06, 9/2/06, 9/3/06, 7/6/07, 8/31/07, 9/1/07, 9/1/07, 9/2/07, 3/7/08, 8/29/08, 8/30/08, 8/30/08, 8/31/08, 7/11/09, 6/4/10, 6/11/11
  • fifefife Posts: 3,327
    I am downtown Toronto and i just thought it was like a bomb for the G20. was hoping to get off work early. :lol:
  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    I personally didn't feel anything and didn't know it happened until just now.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • Brock SamsonBrock Samson Posts: 328
    I personally didn't feel anything and didn't know it happened until just now.

    a lot of people i work with said they didn't feel it, either. my guess is that unless you were pretty much not moving when it happened, you didn't feel it.
    9/1/00, 9/2/00, 9/3/00, 12/31/00, 3/2/01, 4/29/01, 6/21/01, 7/25/01, 8/31/01, 9/1/01, 9/2/01, 4/18/02, 8/30/02, 8/31/02, 8/31/02, 9/1/02, 9/22/02, 3/22/03, 5/6/03, 6/29/03, 8/29/03, 8/30/03, 8/30/03, 8/31/03, 2/21/04, 4/2/04, 4/3/04, 9/3/04, 9/4/04, 9/4/04, 9/5/04, 2/19/05, 7/22/05, 9/2/05, 9/3/05, 9/3/05, 9/4/05, 1/22/06, 6/7/06, 9/1/06, 9/2/06, 9/2/06, 9/3/06, 7/6/07, 8/31/07, 9/1/07, 9/1/07, 9/2/07, 3/7/08, 8/29/08, 8/30/08, 8/30/08, 8/31/08, 7/11/09, 6/4/10, 6/11/11
  • 8181 Posts: 58,276
    the wold is crumbling under our feet
    81 is now off the air

    Off_Air.jpg
  • unlost dogsunlost dogs Posts: 12,553
    This was posted on the website where I work...

    The U.S. Geological Survey has reported that a 5.5 earthquake, centered in Quebec, Canada, occurred today at around 1:45 p.m. Local media have reported that the earthquake was felt in the Greater Boston area, and some staff felt shaking.

    It didn't shake me out of the coma I was briefly in during a long meeting in a semidark auditorium.
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  • JukeeJukee Posts: 4,500
    I'm 4 hours north of Toronto and they had to evacuate people downtown. It was a weird feeling!
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Rookies

    :P :lol:
  • Brock SamsonBrock Samson Posts: 328
    norm wrote:
    Rookies

    :P :lol:

    lol, ain't my first, norm.
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  • tinkerbelltinkerbell Posts: 2,161
    norm wrote:
    Rookies

    :P :lol:

    Ahh yip!! We have a big fault line running right down the middle of our country. Have earthquakes quite often. The worst is when you are asleep and you get jolted awake and feel all disorientated, by the time I've run to the kids rooms it has usually stopped. Haven't had a big one for a while (touch wood) though have seen cars bouncing on the roads before :shock:
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  • FrannyFranny Posts: 2,054
    YIKES!!! I can't even fathom what that would feel like. Scary shit.
  • electronblueelectronblue Posts: 3,460
    pandora wrote:
    We had one here in Georgia a couple years back, very weird, the pictures on the walls were moving, bed shaking. Doggies very freaked out, actually moments before it happened all the dogs jumped up on the bed.
    It's strange because earthquake was the last thing I thought it was.





    wow..i didn't know about that.
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  • We had it pretty bad in Ottawa but I don't think much damage was done. Apparently the glass elevator at one of the malls shattered, but that's the most I've heard.
    2003: Toronto
    2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
    2006: Toronto 1 & 2
    2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
    2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
    2010: Buffalo
    2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
    2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
    2016: Toronto 1 & 2
    2022: Hamilton/Toronto
    2023: EV Seattle 1&2
  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    Ok, so we just had a pretty small one here in SF ... only a 3.5

    But, we were right on top of the epicenter, and that was a new feeling.

    It was more of a sudden concentratrated burst than a long drawn out wave, made a 3.5 feel a little more powerful than it should (had glasses rattling). A little different experience for me.

    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 416595.php
    "You're one of the few Red Sox fans I don't mind." - Newch91

    "I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
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