[splitimage]

We had an earthquake today that was epicentered in a small town in northwestern Quebec. It was a 5 on the Richter scale. But it was felt all the way into Toronto. It was really freaky. All of a sudden I could feel the building swaying. We're on the 10'th floor, and stuff was rattling all over on my desk.

We don't normally get earthquakes here, so it was really kind of exciting and scary at the same time.

--splitimage

[Lemmon10]

And i came down from heaven and i danced on the earth at Bethlehem i had my birth.
Dance dance wherever you may be, i am the lord of the dance said he, and i'll lead you all wherever you may be and i'll lead you all in the dance said he.I absolutely love that song and haven't heard it for a very long time since i was a girl guide growing up in Britain. I live 30 minutes north of Toronto and we too felt that earthquake, quite shocking. I can't believe after reading the few sentences from that hymn that the words came back to me like i sang it yesterday.. whew..Im not getting too old yet LOL...

Mother Nature flexing her muscles again.

[Shadowghost]

That is weird! Never heard in the news about earthquakes in Canada before! I don't think I'd find it exciting, though! But as long as no one was hurt, that's the main thing!

[lynn P.]

Yes I live right in the zone where the earthquake occured, but I didn't feel anything. Strangely though i think Bella felt it lol - she was giving me 'the look' an intense stare. It was felt in Michigan, Ohio, parts of NY all the way to Toronto and of course in Quebec. The epicentre was in Cumberland, Quebec and it registered a mild 5.5. Historically in Ontario, Canada we do get occasional mild earthquakes. The city of Cumberland gets several mild ones a year because it located on a mountanous area.

[Amanda_1981]

I felt it! I live in southern Ontario, two hours from Toronto and my bedroom floor was shaking and my computer desk was rattling!! I was pretty freaked out because I had never witnessed an earthquake before, as canada doesn't really get them (I think there might have been a mild one 20 years ago or so).. so it was quite the experience! I'm glad there was no major damage or injuries!! (During the time I didn't even realize it was an earthquake.. I thought it was a big truck driving by or some sort of construction work).. then I watched the news!!

[lynn P.]

I live 2 1/2 hours from you Amanda, right across from Detroit Michigan - but I didn't feel it for some reason. On the news in michigan, they all said they felt it. I remember several years ago and I felt that one.

[radio_flyer]

Splitimage, glad you are safe and sound.

[thunderbear]

When I was a little kid, we had a tremor here in Kentucky and it was so scary. I was probley 5 at the time. I remember standing in a chair at the sink getting some water and the house started shaking a bit and the cabinet doors swug open and all the stuff fell out. Glad everyone is ok from this one.

[Tones]

I live in Vermont near Burlington and I definitely felt it. I work nights, so I was unsucessfully trying to get some sleep when it hit. First my bed started shaking as though someone were nudging it, then the little floaty balls in a galileo thermometer I have started rattling and a little glass sphere rolled off a shelf in the living room.

Kind of a spooky and vulnerable feeling IMHO. I don't understand how people can stand to live in area where quakes are a common occurrence.

/tones

[Indie'sOK]

My aunt said she felt it, but I didn't for whatever the reason. We live in Michigan, so it should have come here pretty strong. This sort of thing never happens here!

[googley]

Professors in the classroom building felt it, but us in the campus center did not. We all thought that the classroom building is ready to come down around our ears as they remodel it.

[jbug]

I saw that on the news yesterday and thought wow they are happening everywhere. We have had a couple here in Arkansas in the last couple of months but ours have been wierd. They sound like a sonic boom and then the earth shakes. We have had 2 like that. The last one we felt here at my parents house and my dad thought me and my mom had dropped something in the laundry room. I heard it and felt it too but thought it was just something out on the highway. I went online a bit later and saw it was actually an earthquake. There is a fault line not to far from my parents house.

Jan

[Hippie]

Friends in Rochester,NY felt it (across the lake from Toronto). People down the Finger Lakes said they felt it but I was oblivious. Hope all are well in Canada.

Some of my friends felt it here in the Adirondacks, I didn't though.