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?
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Actually it was felt in Montreal too!
It came from Buckingham, Quebec and was @ 5.7 on the scale!
So it was felt all the way from Toronto to Montreal?!?!
Yes I felt it! I live in Peterborough, Ontario and the pens on my desk fell to the floor and my whole house shook. It was crazy!!!
yes …. it was some good trembling of buildings
YUP i totally felt it. I was just sitting there wondering if it was a quake or something to do with the G20 summit lol.
Felt it here in Peterborough. About 60 seconds of rolling that caused our townhouse to shake.
Yes I felt it, it last for about 5 sec’s and shock my appartment. it was scary.
Ya I felt it all the way in Ajax, Canada just 45 mins out of Toronto.
yeah it was wild. started very slow so i figured it was just someone moving something big in the apartment above me, but then it got stronger and the computer monitor started wobbling. kept going for a good 20 seconds. didn’t seem very strong but it’s the only one i’ve ever felt. felt like you’re in a boat and someone is rocking it back and forth slightly 🙂
First Time in my life I felt earthquake 🙂 it was a good expreince and I had fun + I was scared. My Computer was shaking…
I felt the same here in Toronto. It’s my first experience of earthquake – it’s scary
I was going to go apply for a new passport today. Do you guys think government workers in Ottawa will be still working? 😛
yes, I am work in Orangeville, ON 1 hour north of Toronto, felt it as I sat at my desk
creepy…. we thought it was the guys working on our roof…
Felt a mild shaking here in Brampton. I thought it was just people in the apartment above me shaking. It only lasted about 20 seconds.
Yes, big time here in Ottawa – pretty scary
I thought it was the G20 too but buildings around us evacuated just in case!
Apparently people who work downtown in the tall buildings evacuated. I work in Vaughan and everyone here felt it, too.
ahh!! i felt it here in Toronto (Scarborough to be exact).
my whole desk was shaking!
I felt it. I’m in Aurora, on the third floor of a building, and the floor really shook. We thought the building was falling apart!
yes, we (Gov’t) workers are still working lol
I thought my house was settling and my roof was going to cave in! I’m in Kitchener – my dad in Trenton didn’t feel it (his coworker did) and my friends in Kitchener and Peterborough felt it too! Waiting to hear if it did reach up to Sudbury like they’re saying – my sister’s in North Bay.
I felt it, I was at work and all of a sudden the rack of clothes and toys started swaying and it sounded like the ceiling was coming in! I immediately called my husband who is about 10 minutes from where I work (wasaga Beach) and he said he didn’t notice anything! I thought I must have been going crazy until I heard a radio report! Good to know that I am not going crazy 🙂
Yes! Right in downtown. I’ve been in ones similar, although I think the 5.5 rating is probably the highest I’ve experienced (can’t remember though).
SAVE BUB!!!!!!!!!!! lol
jeepers that was hella scary
i didn’t feel a thing , and my ex lives on the other side of guelph and she didn’t feel it either. we must be earthquake proof 🙂
Yes, we felt it in Waterloo, Ontario. Our chairs at our desks were shaking for about 10 seconds and our plants were dancing for a few minutes. Interesting! Was there any damage in Montreal?
Yes, we felt it in Orleans, east end of Ottawa. Saw the walls of my house shake from inside. Phones are down. My cell phone says “emergency only” as if it knows the lines are jammed.
I am in Midland, Ontario, which is on Georgian Bay (2 hours north of Toronto) and I felt it. My computer monitor was violently shaking and it made me a little nauseous.
Craziness.
We felt it all the way up in Midland too!! (North of Barrie)
Preeeetty scary, I figured it was a G20 bomb or something 😛
yes Richmond hill! scary! but super cool afterwards! lol
At Don mills, Toronto… It was unsettling at first to feel the whole building shake up and felt like sitting on rocking seat and moving all around. could feel myself shaking even after the tremors stopped…. All settled now.. Back to work
I felt it here in Cambridge, I thought it was my washing machine doing funny things at first, better check my car didn’t roll down the driveway!
Yes, felt it from 4th floor building in North York.
Nice on, Laura! I already told them where Midland is, silly!
HAHAHA
Ya it was so weird! I thought you were kicking my desk!!!!
I’m about 40 mins west of T.O. and I didn’t feel a thing! damn, i always miss the good stuff 🙁
Wow! We didn’t get it here in Chatham, ON…too far south, lol
Yes I felt that!!!! I thought it was ppl next door in my apartment as welL!!! that was super scary!!
I definately felt it in Toronto. It’s been reported in a lot of the States as well!
I at adelaide and church downtown Toronto and my cubicle started shaking.
im in kitchener, didnt feel a thing onthe third floor, but my mother in law in the basement did. she said her couch was shaking. she came and asked me and i said your crazee 🙂 lol, cause there on construction workers outside on the road and big trucks fixing the roads, so i thought it was that!!
North of Toronto, Barrie area… yes we sure did feel it! I thought I was having a dizzy spell! lol
Now I can’t get the AC/DC song out of my head “You shook me alllll night long …”
Thank goodness that there doesn ‘t appear to be any damage or human casualites – otherwise I would’t be joking around!
My second thought (my first thought was WTF?) was it related to the G8 + G20 summits!
It was totally unexpected and scary. I really thought my house was gonna collapse and I’d die… 😛 I never thought I’d actually experience an earthquake – no warning whatsoever. But then I could only imagine what people in real high-scaled earthquakes feel.
I definitely felt in down here in the Niagara Pensinsula. We are mid way between the two lakes and mid way between Hamilton and Niagara Falls.
It was fairly mild, in fact, at first I thought it was a big gust of wind, but it seemed to keep going forever, although I’m sure it lasted less than a minute. I’m glad others have confirmed it though because I’m sure no one would have believed me otherwise!
ok though i was on good drugs lol
Yep!! in the ottawa valley! Never been so scared in all my life!!!
we are just outside Ottawa and were visiting neighbors when it hit. My neighbor seriously thought her house was going to collapse and rushed us outside only to see other poeple in the neighborhood watching their vehicles rocking back and forth. It was terribly scary!!!!
i’m in St. Catharines…15 minutes from Niagara Falls and I felt it! I was lying on my couch and it started shaking and the lamp on the table was swaying back and forth. I thought at first a truck was going by or a boat in the canal hit the wall then I realized it must be an earthquake! I’ve felt three now here in my life..this by far the strongest.
I was in bed when I felt it LOL
Here is the details about the earthquake today.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010xwa7.php
Thanks.
Joe Joe
I’m in Waterloo, and my computer screen was wobbling and work chair was rolling… The whole dept. was in the hallway in 10 seconds!
I’m in alliston, ontario, about two hours outside of Toronto and felt it.
I thought the gas station down the road exploded.
It shook the cupboards in the office. I went home, and it had opened a couple cupboard doors and slightly moved some empty cardboard boxes in the storage cupboard.
I also have friends in St. Catherine’s that have felt it
I’m near downtown Ottawa. Nothing like being on the first floor of a 6 floor apartment building knowing the whole thing could come crashing down. It sounded like an explosion at first. I thought there was a bomb or something but then it just kept shaking quite hard for about 20 seconds. It took my cat an hour to come out from under my bed!
I’m in Kitchener today and I really felt it here! I was sitting on a couch with my laptop on my lap and the whole house started to roll and shake. My laptop kept going one way while I went the other (back and forth) so it was really noticeable. It lasted a long time (died down a little and then picked back up)…probably 30 seconds or so. Really quite a ride!
We felt it in Chateauguay Quebec, my screen was shaking,it was scary!!!
Waterloo & Mississauga, Ontario both felt it (west of Toronto)
Except me…
Anyway, earthquake here is nothing compared to Asia, wait till you are on high floors and see the chandelier shaking, twice in 10 minutes…
Definitely felt the building shake!
I work down the street from the Metro Convention center where G20 will be held, for a second, I thought a bomb has went off near by or something! But then second thought, the world leaders are not even here yet, bombing now would defeat their purpose..
Felt in Markham, north of Toronto. We just assumed it was from renovations on the floor beneath us…until we saw the crowds of people standing outside in the parking lot!
I slept through it.
YES, my desk was shaking and lots of boxes just fell down… I had no idea Canada had earthquakes, this was the 1st one for me!
Pickering Ontario was rockin too!
Felt it at my workplace in Ancaster, ON. My immediate thought when I felt it was “must be an earthquake” because it lasted a lot longer than the usual rumbles of heavy-trucks going through or workers who frequently do patch-work on our building. It lasted pretty damn long and although not a lot in my office was disturbed from the shake, it was probably the longest (and first) earthquake I’ve ever felt before!
Felt it in North York, Ontario. Table’s were shaking for several minutes.
We were watching a movie and I passed out, so nope nothing here haha!
Yeah, I felt it too, i was at CVH…and then everyone was like…what?
i felt it and it’s normal… very mild… i live in mississauga… it was not the first time, because backhome i’ve experienced 7.5 in scale and there was an aftershock in the evening and on the following day…. that’s the scariest and the strongest earthquake i’ve experienced… good that our house is a bungalow style and nothing to be afraid…
That was intense.. I was in my bf’s apt. my laptop and a few things fell over! I thought the building was falling, because our building is a step from being condemed. I was unfortunately naked.. i ran down the apt in the dark because our apt also has problems with hydro!!
I didn’t feel it.
I live in Kitchener ON and I was coming back from the dentist on the bus and my bf called me all in a panic. He said that his boss was saying that his desk was shaking, but he did not feel it.( He works in Milton ON) I thought he was joking and said if it happened again to stand in a door frame and the response I got was I am so running outside if it happens again. So as I was still on the bus going near downtown I start to see tons of people from the courthouse, OW and buildings like that so I called him back and said that I believed him… I talked to my best friend who was in a government building that got evacuated and she thought it was a bomb threat. I can’t believe that some people felt it and others did not. I hope that everyone that was affected is OKAY!!!
Oh and something that I just thought of… I was watching the OC yesterday
( I never watch it) and they had an earthquake ?!?! freaky
I’m in Brampton, Ontario – west of Toronto. I felt it, but my brother didn’t. I’m at 17th floor, very mild, nothing fell down. It was like I’m in a parked car while heavy trucks drove right next to me. It only lasted for a minute.
I was worried because I thought it was my new medication. So glad that it’s real!
hmm i live in mississauga and i didnt feel a thing
By CBC News, cbc.ca, Updated: June 23, 2010 2:59 PM
Earthquake rocks Quebec, Ontario
A 5.5-magnitude earthquake has hit Quebec, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, with tremors reportedly felt as far away as Windsor, Boston and Cleveland.
The first tremor hit at 1:41 p.m. ET Wednesday south of Lake Echo, in an area 61 kilometres north of Ottawa near the Ontario-Quebec border, according to the U.S.G.S.
Buildings in Toronto and Ottawa were evacuated in the minutes following the tremors. Parliament Hill was also evacuated, while windows at Ottawa’s city hall shattered.
The Ontario Provincial Police reported no injuries. The Ottawa fire department said it was overwhelmed with false alarms.
“Earthquakes across [this part of] Canada are definitely rare, but we do have them,” said Johanna Wagstaffe, a CBC seismologist and meteorologist.
“There are small fault lines along Lake Erie and Lake Ontario” and a “relatively active fault line that runs parallel to the St. Lawrence Valley,” she said just minutes after the quake.
The last major earthquake on that fault line measured 5.4-magnitude in 1998, she said.
Office workers shaken
Kathleen Sullivan was working on the eighth floor of an office in downtown Toronto when the quake hit.
“It was very peculiar because we could actually see the plants on our window shelf shaking.
“By the time we gathered in the hall and figured out it wasn’t our imagination, it stopped. But it was easily a minute of things shaking.”
The quake was felt as far south as Windsor, Ont., along the Canada-U.S. border.
“I was just laying in bed …. and the bed just started to move side to side … just gently,” said Darren Bonnici, who lives on the 10th floor of an apartment building along the city’s riverfront.
“Sort of, almost like a mother would rock a baby in a crib,” said Bonnici, adding the feeling lasted for about five seconds. “I thought right away it must have been an earthquake.”
The earthquake was felt across Montreal and in the city’s outer regions, including the Laurentians and the Chateauguay Valley.
Marcel Maheux said he felt the ground move under his house in the Laurentians just after 1:45 p.m.
“It was big enough that my house and windows shook hard,” said Maheux, who lives in Riviere-Rouge. “It lasted at least 15 seconds, and it passed, but it was very, very strong.”
Hugh Maynard, who lives in Ormstown, southwest of Montreal, said his house was “rocking back and forth.”
Montreal police said no damage has been reported.
I’m in Barrie, we felt it here. Lamps were swaying, whole house shook, i thought it was the construction at first! Is there a bigger one expected? Usually tremors are followed by quakes i thought, ive never experienced one in canada before!
my first earthquake, that was very creepy.
Yes I did , I ‘m in Scarborough it was prety much scary.
I am in Aurora and I felt it, my soup was shaking on the table i knew right away it was an earthquake. My husband works in Mississauga and he felt it too out there. Yikes!
I didn’t feel anything at my house (Niagara Falls) but friends did just down the street. Curious.
Maybe, it might be a fake one, like the fake lake built for G20.
im in pickering i felt it didn’t even puff one
i did not feel it, i think it was only on one half of the province ro something,so weird. My sis called im like i didnt feel anything.
Im living in a construction zone right now, lots of trucks, machinery, etc,,,anyways when the Tv and whole house started shaking I was getting pissed at the town construction guys, wTF were they doing ? lol.. then someone called and told me earthquake,,lol silly me
I’m in Thornhill ON and I gotta say… didn’t feel a thing! Atleast this didn’t leave a lot of damage. I’m surprised though… never thought this city would ever experience an earthquake!!
Absolutely terrifying I felt it in Buffalo
I GOT SO SCARED I THOUGHT I WAS GUNNA DIE
IM LIKE WATZZZ HAPPENIN
We felt it here(downtown Toronto) in the office….I started yelling ” get under your desks” pretty scary stuff!!!
I am at work in Richmond Hill ON and the quake was so strong it moved everything on my desk and the chair next to me. Soo scary!!
Felt it in Havelock. It was only scary because I was peeing at the time! lol
I am 3 hours west of Toronto – Chatham – and we felt it.
I felt the window vibrations, but didn’t take it as anything. I just thought someone was overdoing it on the base in their car stereo again.
I felt it here in Mississauga. I was sitting at the table working on my computer and the table started to vibrate. been feeling dizzy and nauseous ever since and my manager in Montreal says he felt the same way and had to go out for air…. strange
WTF! I felt it in burlington
felt it here in albany new york
In Ottawa, i was in a classroom and for at least an hour before it hit we could hear a cat meowing every 10 second or so. And after the intense quake (ceiling moving and peices breaking off), the cat was quiet. Im thinking it could sense it and was going crazy, you always hear those stories.
Yes, I felt the earthquake at exacly 1:44 pm today and it only lasted a few seconds. I felt it in the south shore of montreal. it was very small and my house was shaking a little. I guess in the south shore it did not feel like a magmnitude of 5.5 but it was sure scary becasue i never felt a earth quake before. I can not imagine larger earthquakes. I guess the tectonic plates do not like us!!
felt it at work, uptown Toronto, my desk was shaking! very weird feeling
In Ottawa here, the house started shaking and screamed earthquake. It was kind of scary.
St.Catharines= Yes I felt the shake!
My china was rattling in the china cabinet.
What I am not looking forward to is a possible storm warning tonight here in southern ontario,yikes. We’ll have to keep our eyes out on the weather if you live around here.
I live in Oakville, and I didnt feel it at all. I’m so surprised we had an earthqake, I dont think we’ve ever had one in Canada. Am I right?
Felt it in Montreal. Not the strongest we’ve had but still shook the house. I was leaning on the railing of my gallery and it was shaking. Thought it was the wind then when it kept up for a while I realized what it was.
Felt it here in London.
I’m in Thornhill and I felt it at exactly 1:44pm! I was laying in the basement room reading when I heard my windows shaking. I thought it might’ve been a truck or something.. a second for so later I realized my furniture was shaking too. Then I thought I was going nuts and finally accepted the fact that it was an earthquake after texting my boyfriend. Haahahaa.. 😛
i think theres been earthquakes here but they are just realllly reallly small ones you barely feel,itleast theres been a couple like that in my area.
In a gov’t building in Ottawa, felt it big time!!!!!! Got sent home too and we have to call in to make sure we can go back tomorrow.
Wonder if they will send out a tsunami warning for the G20’s fake lake?
Here in Richmond Hill, I felt the apartment building swaying a little bit, but really nothing serious. Nothing fell off the shelf. Nothing in the cupboard was making noise. My crystal chandelier wasn’t swinging. My cat wasn’t even afraid.
Last time we had a tornado in Markham, my cat heard the roaring sound outside and hid inside my closet. This time, nothing.
I was at work at Peason Airport… we felt it! It was almost not noticable! Pretty crazy!
http://smartcanucks.ca/toronto-to-ottawa-earthquake-did-you-feel-it/#comment-785611
We’ve had several earthquakes in Canada…..
Yup, felt it too. It was an awesome experience. My chair was rocking side to side…pretty fun.
I felt it too…pretty scary since I was home alone for one of the first times. I thought that I was going crazy from too many video games!
My first earthquake experience and it was indeed very weird. You can sense the rumbling coming up from underground and it jolts you to the core. My stomach’s still a bit queasy…felt like a freight train was plowing through our house.
im living in scarborough ont,i was in house cleaning my kitchen that moment.did not feel anything not even my dishes make noise nor me feel anything.my bro call n he told me about earth quick.i was scared but i did not feel anything.hope every 1 is safe n sound @ their houses/apartment/n where ever they r.GOD save us allllll from any trouble.amin
The shaking woke me up in Sudbury.
I felt it here in Niagara falls.. i was doing laundry and played it off figuring it was the spin cycle.. my house was rocking back and forth.. never crossed my mind that it was an earthquake until i signed online later and was like HOLY CRAP!!!!
I felt it here in London… I was actually at the gym signing up and was being asked how committed to going I was….lol
Felt it in Chatham, Ontario. Desk was swaying and computer wobbling sligthly on desk. It did startle me and I went out in the hallway ASAP! I had experienced something similar about 12-15yrs ago. As we don’t expect earthquakes it always tends to be unsettling especially if not everyone was aware of it and you don’t get immediate comfirmation of what happened.
Last thing I ever imagined happening in Ottawa. At first I thought that my fourth cup of coffee was finally kicking in, but then realized (as the building was shaking) what was happening. Just read this online (should be interesting for those living in Ottawa:
A geological fault line runs throught the Carleton Campus as can be seen by the rapids in the Rideau River. This fault line accounts for the original steepness of the stairs in the UniCentre prior to the 2005/2006 renovations.
“Wonder if they will send out a tsunami warning for the G20’s fake lake?”
That’s too funny!! LOL 🙂
Yes, we feel it. I was in the washroom, when it starts, I thought my head is spinning and when my wife shouted then we understand it is earthquake. I came to living room, Sofa was spinned and we ran to balcony, all the stuff’s are spinning. We are living at 8th floor in High rise building in Montreal. We ran outside with our kids. I think, it is about 20 to 30 seconds and our worst experience.
One of our co-worker felt it and ask me and another co-worker. We just dismissed her and said: Nah, It’s just the street car…. LOL
Felt it here in Burlington, too. I was in the kitchen washing dishes when I actually felt the room begin to sway. It was a bizarre sensation–at first I almost thought the cupboards and counter were about to pull away from the wall. Hubby was at the computer–he started hugging the monitor it pretty tight when it started bouncing.
Pretty scary because we live on the top floor of a high rise. Would that mean we would be the first to die or the last? Thank goodness it only lasted for 20 seconds.
i live in cambridge ontario and there was slight movement but not much at all
Wow, what a crazy day! Now on the news is a tornado in Midland ON, & lots of deaths at a trailer park! Sad!
Felt all the way up here in Timmins but thought it was just another mine blast!
Cambridge- did not feel it. A friend in Richmond Hill did not feel it either.
I didn’t feel a thing here in Woodstock, but I did come home for a quicky with the wife around that time hehehe
Earthquakes are very scary to witness and feel.
No, I was at work and didn’t feel a thing! I thought it was a joke!
Lol. I live in ptbo Canada Ana I fell over at like 1:40ish. I just kinda thought why’d I fall over then my friend told me there had been an earthquake at 1:40 and I figured out why I’d fallen over.
Felt it in Petawawa (Ottawa Valley), too. At first I thought it was a heavy construction vehicle working a street over from us, but then the shaking intensified. Wild.
Quote:
Jamie says
“I didn’t feel a thing here in Woodstock, but I did come home for a quicky with the wife around that time hehehe”
ROFLMFAO. That’s just priceless!!!
felt it in richmond hill, thought a car drove into the house !
Live in Oshawa. i was at computer in spare bedroom. The chair I was sitting in started to shake and water in waterbed next to computer desk started to slosh around. Kind of scary but thankful nothing came of it
I am just north of Belleville, and I didn’t feel a thing. I was exercising in my basement, but I think I would have felt it.
Felt here in London ! Praying for those in Midland that felt the earthquake .. then only ti be hit with a Tornado!! They are now in a state of Emergancy !!
Felt it here in Brantford (just west of Hamilton).
Newmarket. Finished an errand at Walmart and started the car. Must have been driving when it happened. Blamed it on the G20. Loved 2012…
i felt it in st. thomas. my computer desk was shaking. thought i was going crazy
I live in Mississauga!!! I feel shaking and dizzy!
Slight tremors all the way down in Windsor! Tornado warning in effect now! and the scene outside it just crazy! Thankfully no tornadoes yet 🙂
FELT NOTHING IN FONTHILL>
Oh yes, it was felt here. Woke me from my nap hehe I’m only about 50km from the epicenter and it was pretty shaky here. I saw a video on youtube by some American news channel saying that it was felt in NEW ENGLAND! I think they’re confusing London Ontario with London England though ahhaha
my friend felt it here in Cambridge
i live on the same block but i was upstairs and i didn’t feel it
Tornado warnings out this evening for our area Chatham-Kent (near Windsor,ON) & thunderstorms now…hoping no tornado like Leamington got last week!
Very strange weather all around the world lately!
Yes, I did. And I live in Timmins, ON. My sister lives in Val d’Or, QUE and she felt it as well. My other sister (obviously) felt it: she lives in Ottawa.
We felt it in Oshawa. We live behind the airport and I thought an army helicopter or plane just flew over us dealing with the “G” summit. The kitchen cupboards banged open/shut and when we went outside, everything was all calm…errie!
@ Sporeo: New England’s in USA. Its near the border. This earth quack was also felt in the state that is close to this area.
I was openig my fridge and saw it shaking and thought it was my sister in the next room kicking it or something then I saw she was sleeping and had my friend called and told me what happened. This was not the first one for myself but i did not feel it from the previous one in 1998
I personally didn’t feel a thing in Burlington, but my coworker in the next room said she felt it, didn’t know what it was at first till I commented about it. (i knew because twitter exploded with comments about it)
Yup, I felt it. Where our business is located here in Chatham, it has the train tracks behind it, so I originally thought the damn train was going too fast through town and was making everything rumble, but I realized something was up right after that, cause it wasn’t time for the train to come through.
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
Floor was shaking in the upstairs at loblaws in markham felt it shake about 3 or 4 times last night