Shake Rattle and Roll!

Original image: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/2010xwa7/us/us2010xwa7_ciim.jpg We just felt an earthquake in Toronto. I happened to be against a doorframe at the time and it pushed me! I was on the ground floor at the time. Co-workers on the sixth floor say the shelves shake and stuff nearly fell off, while the window blinds rattled madly. In about 10 minutes, the info was available on the internet. The epicentre was near Ottawa at a magnitude 5.5 at 01:41:41 PM. We felt it a few minutes later. The US Geological Survey (updated 2018/09/05) has more info and an article on the Ottawa Quake.

I’m not one for Twitter, but I saw a funny tweet regarding the event: “The earthquake triggered a tsunami in the #G20 fake lake.”