Small earthquake in Ottawa, Ontario

[dvdh]

About 1 minute ago. Nothing major, just shaking and rattling. Anyone else felt it? And know where it might have centered?

Edit: Just talked to family in south shore Montreal: it was not noticed there, so maybe centred southwest of Ottawa?

[WildCowboy]

4.0...42 km (26 mi) ENE of Ottawa.

Linky (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/usjpad.php)

[Duff-Man]

Duff-Man says...I felt the last 4.0 we had out here - was about 5 in the morning if I recall correctly...woke me up as the cats scattered....oh yeah!

[EricNau]

4.0...42 km (26 mi) ENE of Ottawa.

Linky (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/usjpad.php)
Your link says 4.5 ;)

[WildCowboy]

Your link says 4.5 ;)
Yep, I just came back to post that. It was a 4.0 when I first posted the link, but they've revised their assessment.

[kwajo.com]

God is angry at Stephen Harper :p

[Duff-Man]

God is angry at Stephen Harper :p

Duff-Man says....for what? He has not done much yet...oh yeah!

[bousozoku]

Government shake-up? :p

Well, at least, it was a minimal quake, though I would imagine that there aren't that many in Ontario although that's not surprising since the New Huntingdon fault is one of the biggest in North America.

[notjustjay]

So that's what that was! :eek:

I was in the Orleans area (near 10th Line at 174) and felt the building start shaking, like a train was going by real close. It couldn't have lasted more than 10-15 seconds. At the time, my friend said there was a big salt truck making a U-turn in the parking lot outside, so we figured that was what caused it, but I was thinking, "man, that's a big salt truck to do that..."

Cool :)

[dvdh]

The Ottawa Citizen says that we can expect more (although smaller) tremors over the next few days.

This was the first one that I have felt in Ottawa (in the 8 years that I have been here). I slept through the last one that happened about 2 years ago.