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5.5 Earthquake 28 miles north of Ottawa!

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:03 am
by jkm311
Felt my office building in Warren, MI sway this afternoon:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20...84422All of our friends in the Great White North OK?

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:25 am
by bull77
yup -- felt it in downtown Ottawa. A really surreal feeling.

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:25 am
by REDHOTROB
All clear here in London. From what I am told it was in Quebec. Looks like they were trying to separate from Canada again. HAHAHAHA

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:27 am
by bull77
originally listed as a 5.5 but now downgraded to 5.0...http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bull....html

Re: (bull77)

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:30 am
by jkm311
Quote, originally posted by bull77 »yup -- felt it in downtown Ottawa. A really surreal feeling. You would have felt it the most out of all of us! We experienced more of a "dizzy" feeling, like our equilibrium was just off a bit in the office. Sway, sway!

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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:43 am
by jkm311
Mildly offensive language in the first two seconds:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/....html

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:47 am
by bull77
for the first 5 seconds I thought it was either a really big truck going by, a low flying plane, or someone moving furniture on the floor above us.But once your whole body starts shaking for 10+ seconds you know it's an earthquake

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:35 am
by AKLGT
Lollers. You guys don't get too many earthquakes, do you? That's a baby quake, but certainly a decent shake if you're not used to it.

Re: (bull77)

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:48 am
by Sputnik
Quote, originally posted by bull77 »for the first 5 seconds I thought it was either a really big truck going by, a low flying plane, or someone moving furniture on the floor above us.But once your whole body starts shaking for 10+ seconds you know it's an earthquake I actually thought that it was that building between Laurier and Slater that's under construction - I thought it had ruptured something. Then a second one hit and it was much longer and my monitor was shaking like crazy and I could feel the floor moving. Scared the crap outta me. I ran down 16 flights of stairs after that.

Re: 5.5 Earthquake 28 miles north of Ottawa! (jkm311)

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 11:25 am
by BadBrew
I was downtown Montreal when it happened on a construction site... never felt it Last one I do remember is from 1988, a 5.9. that one was hard to miss lol