This is the strongest earthquake I’ve ever personally experienced… pretty scary feeling. I can’t imagine how people feel in major earthquakes.
Did you feel the earthquake?
See the crop of a traffic graph on the right? We had a noticeable blip (as in the drop in this blog’s traffic) just at the same time as the earthquake, around 13:41 ET, followed by a spike about half an hour later. Neat.
I was driving to Kingston Ont felt like a rough patch on the road but yet the road was smooth — didn’t know until the radio announced it when I called back home to check on my lil ones they had all felt it and that was in Madoc Ont — Kinda scary all this crazy weather we had a tornado warning yesterday as well -
I was lying in bed and feelt that the bed was shaking and i had to get up right away. I was really scared coz I lived on the 16th floor…
Felt the house walls shake in Cambridge on the second floor. Ran downstairs to tell my father who was in the garage. He did not feel it and thought if may have been strong winds because I didn’t see anything on MSN 20 minutes after.
At my desk near Guelph,…didn’t feel a thing but friends on the next street did!
I sat on my new couch and felt it.…and everybody else in my house didn’t feel.we were like… I was saying Its earthquake,its earthquake..and hubby was saying its the reclining movement of new couch u are feeling…lol
i live in niagara falls and i felt it, even my friends in welland felt it..
BFD! I don’t understand why people are making such a big deal about this earthquake and for that matter, blaming it on the G20 — really and truly? How on earth are those two related (R-E-T-A-R-D)? It was only for 5–10 seconds! Some people got sent home from work because the quake “stressed” them out. Such drama queens. Try living in a developing country and you’ll see how people go on with their lives over something so miniscule.
Totally felt it here in Ottawa. Thought my office building was collapsing… Got to leave early for an earthquake holidy. Gotta love it when no one gets hurt and you get to go home early!
Some people (I was driving and didn’t feel it) felt it in Sarnia, ON, 2.5 hours south west of Toronto. I know some people who also felt it in Dresden, ON (1/2 hour east of Sarnia).
woke me up and my bed moved from underneath…like a buckling…
I was playing with my baby on the carpet when my place started to shake. Even my hanging plant in the corner started to swing. I live in Hamilton and on the 8th floor.
“Try living in a developing country and you’ll see how people go on with their lives over something so miniscule.”
Yes, most people from a developing country would get over something like that quite quickly. Mostly because they have much bigger fears, like starving to death, or they have actual natural disasters to fear. In reality, the hardships some people go through on a daily basis make anything that we think is “hard” pale in comparison. However, that does not mean that what we go through in developed countries is insignificant. And calling people drama queens because they were scared over something that IS a big deal to us in this country is just silly.
They evacuated buildings here in Windsor.
I was watching a movie and felt my couch move…thinking someone was in my house I got up looked around then saw the door was locked so I REALLY was alone…lol Later on that afternoon other parents at my kids school told me about it…okay good. Thought I was going crazy!
Wait I don’t mean good..what I meant to say was it was me and my imagination.
I felt it here in Welland
my computer monitor was rocking when I was on the computer. I thought at first I was jsut imagining it. That was FREAKY!!!!!
My daughter called me from down stairs and said what the Heck was that!
We didn’t feel the quake, we were heading from Petawawa to Niagara Falls. Ironically, I lived in S. California for 11 years and have experienced a few quakes as a kid. I thought someone was rocking our bunk bed at the time during one quake (over 6).
Nope not a thing… kinda wish i did, would be neat