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Human seismograph picks up Canadian earthquake in the North End
By adamg on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:20am
At 9:50 a.m., CarCarli tweeted from her North End apartment:
Did anyone just feel an Earthquake? Home sick in bed & just felt that earthquakey JiffyPop shaking sensation.
The USGS reported a 4.4 earthquake north of Ottawa at 9:43 a.m. In addition to the North End, it shook upstate New York.
After getting confirmation of the quake, CarCarli added:
I'm a precision instrument.
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Comments
Huh
So that's what that was. My coffee started rippling in the cup and I could hear a very low pitched rumbliness noise.
(I'm in an office tower on what could be called "original land" in the Financial District).
UPDATE: Now they are saying it was a 5.1 in the Ottawa Valley, followed by a second rumble 10 minutes later. http://www.theprovince.com/news/Earthquake+strikes...
in 2011
when we could feel the earthquake from VA i felt it up on Sheaf St. and many people didn't feel it who were a few blocks away, def because of "original land"
Earthquake is located near
Earthquake is located near Ottawa (as close to Toronto as Syracuse is to us).
Oh, yeesh
Thanks, changed "Toronto" to "Ontario."
Except that it was actually
Except that it was actually in the province of Quebec. The Ottawa River forms the border there, the town of Shawville is north of the river and the epicenter was actually north of Shawville.
yes but most people in the
yes but most people in the States barely know where (or what) Ottawa is let alone the smaller cities and towns around it. The quake epicenter was outside Shawville QC but the closest known larger city is Ottawa in Ontario, which is still closer than Toronto, in Ontario, or Montreal, while in the correct province is still farther away.
I had been exchanging e-mail with Ottawa
Or, actually, Hull, QC, a suburb.
Guy was on the 17th floor and took a bit of a ride. He had to pick up some books and be extra careful opening cabinet doors.
The headline (at the time
The headline (at the time that I wrote that reply) said "...earthquake in Ontario..." (it has since changed to the also accurate "...Canadian earthquake...") and I was simply correcting that. Ottawa is the largest city "near" there but American geographic ignorance doesn't make it correct to put the epicenter in the wrong province.