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