To all my friends in Ontario.

[gridlore]

Welcome to our world! The quake that just rocked Toronto would barely move us off the couch.

Damn, been too long since I felt a good quake.

Comments

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

I was standing and totally missed it.

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

It was a total flopcalypse; nowhere near enough justification to start unpinning M-14 mags and deploying the claymores and punji sticks.

[ciarhwyfar.livejournal.com]

Here in Upstate New York, I wasn't sure it wasn't a couple of trucks driving down our street. Then it went on just a bit too long for that. Certainly not enough to spark up much conversation. :)

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

What quake?

I'm in Toronto and I felt nothing. Apparently things were rattling, but nothign I noticed walking down a corridor…

[davehogg.livejournal.com]

That's the good thing about Midwest earthquakes. We can go "ooooh, the ground moved!" without having to worry about anything actually being damaged.

(although pictures of the devastation in Toronto are starting to show up. The last one I saw showed a lawn chair that had fallen over, and someone else reported a toppled lamp!)

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

Toronto hardly felt much, but we got a good shake in Ottawa, seeing as how we're so much closer to the epicentre of the quake. It was very noticeable here, not easily confused with a truck going by, and much noisier than I remember an earthquake being (last quake of any size I felt was a good 30 years ago).

Ottawa is less than 100km from the epicentre, and Toronto is a good 500km away if I recall correctly; that's why it didn't seem like much there. ;)

And yes, Doug, this is not much by comparison, but it's something to talk about for a day or two. ;)

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I posted right after the breaking news alert on MSNBC, they identified Toronto as the most affected city.

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

Ah, that would do it. I'm sorry if my reply seemed to jump down your throat re: location - I didn't mean to be a jerk about it. (There's a tendency in media, including Canadian, and provincial aka Ontario media, to talk about Toronto as if it represents the whole country or the whole province, and non-Torontonians sometimes are a little oversensitive about it. I plead guilty there, having never lived in Toronto.)

I actually read in one of the articles that eastern quakes are felt more strongly than western quakes due to different densities of landmass, or something like that; interesting to read that. This also was apparently an intra-plate quake (I don't have a cite handy, will look it up when I can), which isn't as well understood.

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

I live forty miles from Toronto, and felt nothing.

This isn't new, though. We do get small quakes every few years; the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River exist because of a mid-continental plate fault. It's along the same lines as the New Madrid fault, but generates 4.0s and 5.0s instead of 7.0s and 8.0s.

The only one I've ever felt was around '82-'83. I was in science class and it knocked the teacher on his ass because he was sitting with one buttcheek on a tall stool trying to look all suave when it hit.