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Earthquake
Topic Started: Jun 23 2010, 11:26 PM (88 Views)
JayBee
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Apparently, there was an earthquake this afternoon that was centered just 30 miles away from Ottawa, where I live. It was felt as far away as 350 miles.

When the earth started to shake, people ran out of buildings by the boatload. City hall was evacuated, government workers (this is the capitol of Canada and the main industry is the Civil Service) were sent home. There were very few damaged buildings -- mostly very old houses. A chimney here, a foundation crack there -- no actual buildings down in this area. Closer to the epicentre, one small town was cut off from everywhere because their bridge fell into the water. And they had a few collapsed houses and power out, etc. But that was it.

Anyway, I was on my way home from Starbucks when it happened. I was in my car. I missed the whole thing. Didn't feel a shake, a wave, or even a quiver. Nothing out of the ordinary. Nothing.

It was a 5.5 on the Richter scale and the largest in our area in the last 100 years.

And I missed it! How the heck did that happen????
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When I first saw this item on my CBC newsfeed, I wondered if Stephen Harper had jumped up and down, or something...

But seriously, I'm glad you weren't hurt. I hadn't realized there was a fault line in that region.
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Hypatia,Jun 23 2010
08:35 PM

But seriously, I'm glad you weren't hurt. I hadn't realized there was a fault line in that region.

We're situated right on a major fault line that runs down into New York state and there's another very close by on the Quebec side of the Ottawa river.

Earthquakes are not new around here, but are usually down around the 2 and 3 mark. I'm not sure which is scarier -- the sound (which comes first and sounds like a train in your back yard) or the shaking.

This one was still termed a "moderate" quake. But, apparently (I can't say for sure because I seem to have no sense of feel at all) it was strong enough to scare people out of their buildings, which hasn't happened with any other quake we've experienced.

No aftershocks felt here yet, although there've been a few small ones closer to the center of the quake.
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:biggrin: jaybee im glad your ok and hope no one else was hurt in the earth quake
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I'm glad, too, that you are ok!

Any aftershocks?
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I guess the rumbling of your moving car probably shielded you from the rumbling in the ground.

Sometimes it's not such a bad thing to miss something completely. At least you and family are all safe.
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Apparently there were about 20 aftershocks, but they were all quite small and only felt close to the epicentre. So, we didn't get any here.

I'm still bummed that I didn't notice it. I've been in the car before when we've had an earthquake (smaller than this one) and felt it. However, there are a lot of people who did miss it and they were all driving. The ones in cars that were stopped at the time did feel it.

It is good that no one was hurt and only minor damage was done to a very few buildings. I suppose it helped that the centre was well away from any large urban areas. There was a 6.5 in Quebec City several years ago which also didn't topple any buildings, but did knock everything off shelves. smashed big windows, and made messes in supermarkets and any other stores with lots of shelving.
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Rubber tyres go bouncy bounce...no wonder you didn't feel a thing.

When we were in Yellowstone back in 1966, the ranger told us the next a.m. there had been a 4.5 during the night. I slept right through it I guess..airmattress and cozy sleeping bag :lol:

Glad to hear your place is ok...I wonder how Stitch made out?
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06:41 PM


Glad to hear your place is ok...I wonder how Stitch made out?

Stitch lives 250 miles away from here. We were only 30 miles from the epicentre. Toronto (where Stitch lives) felt it, but no harm done.
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Nuts..that's right. I would have loved to read the description if Stitch was involved :lol:

Pleased your corner of the universe is ok and nothing's 'cracked' ;)

Yes, looking forward to Sunday night!
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Earthquake? What earthquake?

You mean there was an earthquake?

:confused:

I felt nothing!

After someone told me about it I discovered that lots of people around
here reported feeling everything getting shaken up a bit, but not me.

At my place, however, there's been a lot of renovating going on,
and thinking back, that day it was particularly loud; so, I expect
the quake was simply unable to compete with all that hammering,
sawing and drilling. (rolls eyes)

And hey, for all we know, maybe that's what started it! :wacko:

The only real excitement has been the G20 debacle. What a mess!

Mind you, around here it's been very quiet because I guess anybody
who was able to skip town for the weekend did. Also, as I live in the
'unfashionable' east end, nobody came anywhere near me.

I think it's ironic that the well-to-do people who decided to
settle in the trendy west end got hammered, because of course
that's where they held the meetings.

Then again, it's not over yet... :bhincouch:
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