"Are you noticing anything weird happening up there?"
"Yup the stuff in my room is rattling."
"Do you think it's a tremor?"
"Maybe."
"Do you feel it?"
"Yes."
I wait a bit(seconds) and then have the idea to sign into twitter to see if anything appears there. It does. Yes there are tweets about the shaking. Next I google the date and the word earthquake. The answer is instant. A tremor at 5.1 on the Richter scale occurred just north of Ottawa, north east of Toronto. Wow.! The shaking was scary but the speed at which I was able to get information was magnificent. Clearly the damage must be very insignificant because the networks kept working. Thank goodness. I guess the news at six will have more details Kleinste Motte.
PS.Did you feel it too? The six o'clock news said it was felt in many far away places.
So it was the tremor you felt in your bones! There was a time in Portugal when we were on holiday and my husband asked if I felt anything but I didn't. We're in quite a zone free area.
ReplyDeleteNope. Didn't feel it in Houston. I didn't realize that the area around Toronto had earthquakes.
ReplyDeleteMy only experience with a tremor was in San Diego -- and it not only scared me, but the restaurant owner who ran screaming into the street.
Apparently we live on some sort of fault line.
ReplyDeleteYou are the 5th or 6th person I've heard this from today! No clue it happened.
ReplyDeletestrange. had no idea Toronto was on a fault line. I wish I had grown up to be a geologist.
ReplyDeleteI didn't feel your quake way over in BC but years ago we had a quake (I think it was 5.2 [maybe it was 4.2] on the Richter scale. It was enough to make us feel it that's for sure. I was on the phone with a colleague in Ottawa and I told her "I think we're having an earthquake." We hung up the phone and within minutes she called me back to tell me what she found out on the internet!
ReplyDeletewe could not feel it here in florida, but we did see it on the news and it said it was felt into NY also. glad it was just a shaker upper and no damage. is this the first time for you?
ReplyDeleteWow, that is amazing when you think about it how quickly you were able to get information on what had happened. We truly live in the Information Age.
ReplyDeleteGlad you and yours are okay and that there was no damage. I'm a geologist, so earthquakes fascinate me, but I have never had the opportunity to feel one. In a way I am jealous.
Good afternoon, thanks for your visit. About the quake, believe it or not, here in Ohio, we noticed a little jiggle. I was sitting at my computer and I thought did I move my chair or did it do it on it's own. It happened so quickly I wasn't even sure, until our one daughter e-mailed me and said a slight quake had hit in the Dayton area, and we're about 20 miles west of Dayton. I can't imagine living in California with all of the quakes they have. Again, thanks for your visit.
ReplyDeleteI grew up on the San Francisco peninsula, so quakes were not a big deal for me.
ReplyDeleteOne morning we experienced one in Oregon while Nancy and I were sitting in bed drinking coffee. We heard the shower door rattling. Nancy asked what was that? I told her an earthquake! What should we do, she asked? Nothing...It's over now!
Of course some nutty Iranian cleric said the increasing earthquakes are due to immodestly clothed women. If that is the case, I am hoping for more quakes.
I grew up in southern California and would sleep through the earthquakes. I was sitting at my desk at work one day and watched cars parked along the street bouncing up and down. What fun! Then we moved to Nebraska two years ago and tornadoes came pretty close to our town the first few months here so we had something new to learn about and adjust to, more adventures. What name do you like to be called...Kleinste? You should do a post about your name sometime. I like your name.
ReplyDeleteKleinsteMotte,
ReplyDeleteThank you for stopping by and leaving your insightful comment. Lots to consider there. I would not put it past the FoodCorps combines to infuse addictive chemicals into packaged products, given what they've done to cigarettes.
Namaste'
Yes I felt it here in Montreal. I was visiting Hubby in hospital, sitting on his bed and the whole bed started shaking. Then a picture fell off the T.V. It did not last long. I thought somebody was doing construction or something. Then we heard the nurses laughing. Somebody said "earthquake". Did not think so at the time, as it did not last long.
ReplyDeleteDid not feel it here! You can keep those up there, thank you!
ReplyDeleteFelt this one in CT! Like your blog, I'll be back!
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