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. ;)
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.
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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. ;)
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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.