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Post by Randy on Jun 23, 2010 15:50:51 GMT -5
I live right on the shore of Lake Erie by the PA line, and the earthquake that hit Ontario shook my house big time. I was on the computer at the time upstairs and all of a sudden my computer desk started banging against the wall. I tried to stand up but it knocked me right back down. No aftershocks as of yet, but we have some cracks in the plaster we never had before. Hope our friends to the north are all okay!
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Post by GeneW on Jun 23, 2010 18:42:22 GMT -5
Randy,
I was sitting in our loveseat when the earthquake happened. The loveseat began swaying back and forth and I thought Trevor had his music up way too loud (his sound studio is one level under where I was sitting).
The I noticed the lamp was swaying too, and I could hear the clinks of things jingling up against each other. That was my "je twig" moment when I realized it was an earthquake.
It lasted about five seconds. Five scary seconds. The epicentre appears to have been in Quebec, just north of Ottawa. It was about a 5.5 on the Richter Scale, which is a pretty modest tremor. People in California wouldn't even notice it :-)
We're fine and there was very little structural damage reported.
Gene
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Post by nikonbob on Jun 23, 2010 19:15:39 GMT -5
Good to hear you are OK Gene and Randy. We never felt a thing up here in North Western Ontario. Maybe that is why they want to bury nuclear waste up here. I wonder how Micky is doing?
Bob
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Post by mickeyobe on Jun 23, 2010 21:08:32 GMT -5
I was having a nap when it happened.
Didn't feel a thing.
There was a possibility of tornadoes today.
Nothing.
Darn!
I miss everything.
Well not everything really. There was a heavy downpour yesterday and I saw water spouting out of a sewer about 2' into the air. Lovely fountain. I went for my camera but the eruption had stopped by the time I got back.
Mickey
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Post by Randy on Jun 23, 2010 22:14:10 GMT -5
I was really surprised that it hit here like it did, but they said on the news they felt in down in Pittsburgh also. I turned the TV on right after the earthquake, but there was nothing on any of the local or cable channels about it. I turned the antenna on and Channel 11 out of Hamilton Ontario had the report on and people were calling in. I tried to call from Ohio, but kept getting a busy signal, so I gave up.
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Post by nikonbob on Jun 24, 2010 6:29:57 GMT -5
Mickey
Don't feel bad about sleeping through the whole thing. My wife still shakes her head that I managed to sleep through a 7.7 quake that hit Darwin Australia while we were there. We must share some of the same DNA to have this ability.
Bob
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Post by mickeyobe on Jun 24, 2010 14:26:05 GMT -5
Right Bob.
Do
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Awake
Mickey
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Post by daveh on Jul 3, 2010 12:24:14 GMT -5
Sleeping through: there was a story a few years back of some kids (12 or 13 year olds, I think) who were sleeping out in tents near to the house of one of them. In the middle of the night there was a thunderstorm which was passing directly overhead, with the lightning dangerously close to the steel framed tents. As they awoke the parents were there to ferry them all to the house. In the house they had a roll call. There was one missing. There was some fear that he might have met a nasty end. They went back to the tent in some trepidation. He was still asleep - as with you good selves - not even having realised anything was going on.
We don't tend to get too much in the way of earthquakes in Britain. Going back about thirty years there was one that originated in the Midlands. We felt the house shake a little. Terry Wogan, a (national) radio DJ had picked that very time to be playing the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations.
I'm glad to hear all is well.
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