Earthquake!

[Icepick]

I wasn't aware Ottawa was an earthquake prone area o.o

They get small scale earthquakes up in Quebec all the time and Ottawa is right on the border.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

ZOMG!!! Canada is going to fall off into the ocean!

Not before cali...

 

[Imp]

Sounds like a lot of people felt swaying. I sure didn't, just hope my computer's ok at home. Got my priorities straight...

 

[Icepick]

I immediately hit up CNN and the local news web sites and found nothing. Came on to Anandtech forums on a hunch and, sure enough, verified the existence of the quake I felt. Leave it to ATOT to beat out the traditional news media.

 

[dank69]

My wife and her coworkers felt their building sway. Windsor, CT. How can that even be possible?

 

[JTsyo]

Felt a bit of rolling here in NJ. Only half the office felt it, we had to convince the rest. Weird thing is we had a fire drill 15 mins later.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Magnitude 5.5 - ONTARIO-QUEBEC BORDER REGION, CANADA

ZOMG...What the Hull was that?

 

[Imp]

Looks like something finally got written up:

http://www.thestar.com/breakingnews/article/827425--tremors-felt-in-toronto?bn=1

 

[her209]

Zach Anner has angered Oprah.

 

[dennilfloss]

5.5, 50something km from Ottawa they just said on TV.

It enlarged cracks in my window sills from a previous quake several years ago.

http://www.imagebam.com/image/3383a585644544

http://www.imagebam.com/image/cc686d85644576

 

[halik]

Didn't feel shit in cbus, OH

 

[Gillbot]

Didn't feel shit in cbus, OH

A friend in Cbus said their building swayed.

 

[somethingsketchy]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/us2010xwa7.php#details

Pretty interesting read...the next section "Summary" mentions how we (in New England) can feel almost any earthquake that occurs in Canada

 

[Lord Zado]

I immediately hit up CNN and the local news web sites and found nothing. Came on to Anandtech forums on a hunch and, sure enough, verified the existence of the quake I felt. Leave it to ATOT to beat out the traditional news media.

Haha, that was my same thought too. I then used twitter for the first time in my life to confirm if other people in the area had felt it.

 

[nonlnear]

zomg...what the hull was that?

iswydt

 

[AdamK47]

I could feel it here in Cincinnati. I thought it was someone fat walking down the hall.

 

[halik]

A friend in Cbus said their building swayed.

my whole office/cube shakes whenever someone fat walks by... and there are a lot of fat people in cbus

 

[DrPizza]

I figured I'd take a moment to come to ATOT to report that I, too, felt it. Western NY about 20 miles north of the PA border. My arm went numb this morning for no apparent reason. My immediate thoughts were "I'm having a stroke, I shouldn't have ignored the numbness."

 

[Juddog]

Felt it in WNY pretty good.

 

[coldmeat]

I missed it. I was driving down the 417 at the time. When I got to Arnprior everyone there was talking about it.

 

[dennilfloss]

Quake is said to have lasted 15 seconds. Sure felt like that for me.

 

[BoomerD]

Didn't feel a dammed thing from that one...of course, it was ONLY a 5.0...barely more than a truck going by...(according to most of ATOT when Kahleeforneeya has a 5.0) :biggrin:

Fucking things do get your attention though...especially when you live in a location that rarely gets them.

 

[Ika]

some of my fb friends posted stuff about it, so I guess some of cleveland did feel it. maybe I'll ask my mom later (she works in one of the bigger towers downtown).

 

[dennilfloss]

I immediately hit up CNN and the local news web sites and found nothing. Came on to Anandtech forums on a hunch and, sure enough, verified the existence of the quake I felt. Leave it to ATOT to beat out the traditional news media.

I checked on Twitter to confirm before posting as they have been doing road work on the boulevard but this felt way too strong. The shaking and noise was like an unbalanced washing mashine.

 

[BornStar]

I didn't feel anything in Metro Detroit. I'm a little disappointed, I've never felt a quake before.