The Canadian Earthquake Thread - Page 5

Aylmer · #81 Posted **May 17, 2013, 1:49 PM**

Yep, enough to shake the picture frames, but nothing like the last time. We were due for one - I think 2-3 years is the rule of thumb around here.

harls · #82 Posted **May 17, 2013, 1:49 PM**

Yep - Wasn't as big as the one a couple of years ago.

SteelTown · #83 Posted **May 17, 2013, 1:50 PM**

It seems to always hit in the morning.

harls · #84 Posted **May 17, 2013, 1:54 PM**

I'm feeling a low rumble now.. must be an aftershock.

Ramako · #85 Posted **May 17, 2013, 1:54 PM**

I'm in downtown Toronto right now, on the 29th floor. Felt nothing.

SteelTown · #86 Posted **May 17, 2013, 1:56 PM**

4.8 magnitude from Braeside, Ontario

FrankieFlowerpot · #87 Posted **May 17, 2013, 2:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ramako

I'm in downtown Toronto right now, on the 29th floor. Felt nothing.

On 5th floor at Yonge/Front - felt it

flar · #88 Posted **May 17, 2013, 2:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

I just felt an earthquake right now..

Yup, me too.

harls · #89 Posted **May 17, 2013, 2:23 PM**

Now they're saying it was 5.1 near Shawville.

http://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.g.../index-eng.php

Boris2k7 · #90 Posted **May 17, 2013, 2:51 PM**

When I first heard about this earthquake originating near Ottawa, my first thought was: Mike Duffy?

Chadillaccc · #91 Posted **May 17, 2013, 3:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by SteelTown

Felt like two bumps and the third was a long bouncy bounce.

lmao! I absolutely love this description

SteelTown · #92 Posted **May 17, 2013, 3:39 PM**

Get your mind out of the gutter! lol

Chadillaccc · #93 Posted **May 17, 2013, 3:42 PM**

Nononooo! I didn't mean that in any nasty way

It was just a hilarious description of the motions of an earthquake. It's early in the morning on this side of the continent

I'm only a third of the way into my coffee. Cut me some slack

SteelTown · #94 Posted **May 17, 2013, 4:00 PM**

Suuuuuuuuuuure lol

DrNest · #95 Posted **May 17, 2013, 4:22 PM**

I didn't feel a thing in Oshawa, but several of my friends say their house shook and pictures rattled etc.

Dwils01 · #96 Posted **May 17, 2013, 7:09 PM**

Felt it here at 9:45am in North Bay. Wasn't as strong here, only lasted for about 30sec and wasn't only strong enough to wake me up. Didn't realize what it was at first because I'm used to traffic shaking my room but it last for more than 10sec so I knew it was an earthquake.
I was kind of cool to experience one.

David1gray · #97 Posted **May 17, 2013, 7:21 PM**

Heard it in the basement of my girlfriends parents house in Orleans.... thought it was the furnace starting up. Also heard the aftershock and thought the same thing again. Didn't register what it was until it was tweeted on twitter. Shows how awake I was haha

vid · #98 Posted **May 18, 2013, 3:44 AM**

So basically, imagine this experience but it never ends; that's what it is like to live beside a rail yard!

The grain cars from the prairies are extremely heavy, the vibrations can be so bad at times that you have to stop what you're doing and wait it out. Most of the time I don't notice.

Chadillaccc · #99 Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 1:44 PM**

A magnitude 6.7 struck Vancouver Island yesterday evening. The quake was felt throughout the island, the Lower Mainland, and as far inland as Kelowna. One forumer in the Vancouver section said his condo in Coal Harbour swayed for over a minute and sounded like an old creeky wooden house! Kinda freaky, but kinda cool! No one was hurt or killed as far as I know.

VANRIDERFAN · #**100** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 2:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

A magnitude 6.7 struck Vancouver Island yesterday evening. The quake was felt throughout the island, the Lower Mainland, and as far inland as Kelowna. One forumer in the Vancouver section said his condo in Coal Harbour swayed for over a minute and sounded like an old creeky wooden house! Kinda freaky, but kinda cool! No one was hurt or killed as far as I know.

Really? I am in Victoria and we never felt a thing.