5.0 Earthquake @ Ontario/Quebec border, felt as far as Ottawa/Pittsburg

[DarkSky]

Earthquake Details

Magnitude	5.5
Date-Time	Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 17:41:41 UTC Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 01:41:41 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location	45.866°N, 75.457°W
Depth	15.7 km (9.8 miles) set by location program
Region	ONTARIO-QUEBEC BORDER REGION, CANADA
Distances	39 km (24 miles) N (356°) from Cumberland, Ontario, Canada 45 km (28 miles) NNE (21°) from Gatineau, Qu�bec, Canada 52 km (32 miles) NNE (26°) from Hull, Qu�bec, Canada 53 km (33 miles) NNE (21°) from OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 2.3 km (1.4 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters	NST=283, Nph=283, Dmin=149 km, Rmss=0.91 sec, Gp= 25°, M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=7
Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	us2010xwa7

• This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

[DarkSky]

Earthquake Location

Magnitude 5.5 ONTARIO-QUEBEC BORD REG., CANADA
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 17:41:42 UTC



Major Tectonic Boundaries: Subduction Zones -purple, Ridges -red and Transform Faults -green

[Eabie]

I felt it here in Kitchener! I was sitting at the table with my laptop and it began to wobble... it's pretty rickety so I wondered at first if it was finally falling apart. :P Then I realized the fan looked like it was moving and the building itself seemed to be wobbling a little... At first I wondered if people were doing work upstairs or something, but obviously that shouldn't cause an entire building to shake - lol. Was quite a surprise!

[Derecho]

I felt the last quake in 2002 was it? Didn't feel this one, how disappointing. All my friends and family felt it. My mothers office shook just down the street.

Felt reports in Boston now.

Eabie, welcome to Ontario, lol. Though rare, we're all sitting on fault lines that shake every few decades. Strange, isn't it? There was a 6.3 in 1984 I think it was.

[Slacker]

City Hall in Windsor was evacuated, and I felt my house shaking in La Salle.

[Eabie]

Originally Posted by Derecho

I felt the last quake in 2002 was it? Didn't feel this one, how disappointing. All my friends and family felt it. My mothers office shook just down the street.

Felt reports in Boston now.

Eabie, welcome to Ontario, lol. Though rare, we're all sitting on fault lines that shake every few decades. Strange, isn't it? There was a 6.3 in 1984 I think it was.

Thank you! It was my first earthquake. If we don't get any storms today (looking like more and more of a possibility it seems, sadly) then this won't exactly compensate, but it does help a little. :P Especially cool that it seems like such a rare event here - not since 2002.

[Derecho]

Originally Posted by Eabie

Thank you! It was my first earthquake. If we don't get any storms today (looking like more and more of a possibility it seems, sadly) then this won't exactly compensate, but it does help a little. :P Especially cool that it seems like such a rare event here - not since 2002.

Not 2002, but 2000, and if was a 5.5.

And the 6.3 was a 6.0 in 1990.

CP24 is talking about it, lol.

EDIT: Spooky, I'm sensing a trend!!

1990
2000
2010

Every 10 yrs!

[Nagii]

I was at the Fairview Mall in St. Catharines when it happened. Everyone just stood there staring at each other, then someone screamed it was a earthquake and everyone was fanning out from the centre of the mall towards the sides. It was pretty epic, can today get any better? Supposedly, Welland just got hit again around 2:30 with a tremor.

[DarkSky]

Originally Posted by Nagii

I was at the Fairview Mall in St. Catharines when it happened. Everyone just stood there staring at each other, then someone screamed it was a earthquake and everyone was fanning out from the centre of the mall towards the sides. It was pretty epic, can today get any better? Supposedly, Welland just got hit again around 2:30 with a tremor.

I never felt anything and I'm like 2 miles from Fairview. Weird.

Hehe, "Welland" never got an earthquake. Quakes cover a radius of hundreds of miles, not specific towns

The only quake I remember is coming home from work in early afternoon about 15 yrs ago. It was about 3pm on a sunny day and I was downstairs on the couch when the walls started rattling. It was too much vibration to have just been a big truck going by. I went outside and one of my neighbors was walking down her driveway and asked me "did you feel that?".

Nothing today though.

[Nagii]

Originally Posted by DarkSky

I never felt anything and I'm like 2 miles from Fairview. Weird.

Hehe, "Welland" never got an earthquake. Quakes cover a radius of hundreds of miles, not specific towns

The only quake I remember is coming home from work in early afternoon about 15 yrs ago. It was about 3pm on a sunny day and I was downstairs on the couch when the walls started rattling. It was too much vibration to have just been a big truck going by. I went outside and one of my neighbors was walking down her driveway and asked me "did you feel that?".

Nothing today though.

Yeah, you live in Port, I remember. Like 5 mins from my house. Yeah that is weird. A bunch of other peoples I know in the St. Catharines area also felt it, all the way in the west end and in Meritt. Though I have a friend who was in the Falls and didn't feel it.