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Feel an earthquake in Eastern North America?
- ballgame 16y agoI was shocked when we felt it in Milwaukee minutes after already hearing about it. But apparently at 6 km/s, it would take a full 3.5 (edit: more like 6) minutes for the seismic wave to travel from the epicenter to Milwaukee.
- a-priori 16y agoObligatory: http://xkcd.com/723/ http://xkcd.com/723/
- dreur 16y agoYes, in Ottawa - Near the epicenter.
- EzGraphs 16y agoWe felt it (mildly) in Allentown PA - there was enough concern to evacuate the office building.
- minishark 16y agoDefinitely felt it here in Vermont.
- csmeder 16y agoI was on the phone with some one in New York, he was very surprised.
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoHere's a report from Hamilton, Ontario: http://www.raisethehammer.org/blog/1777/earthquake http://www.raisethehammer.org/blog/1777/earthquake
- haseman 16y ago12th floor of an apartment building in Woodside Queens. The whole building was swaying.
- chaosmachine 16y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1455636 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1455636
- MikeCapone 16y agoFelt it in Ottawa. It woke me up (yeah, took a sick day today), I ran outside and half the neighbours were out talking about it. I tried to call a few people, but for a couple minutes I couldn't get any calls out. It took about 5 minutes to start hearing sirens (ambulances?). My mother lives closer to the epicenter (north of Ottawa), and portraits fell from the walls and she kinda freaked out.
- arach 16y agoFelt it in Montreal. 8th floor of an office building. It took me a few seconds to know it was an earthquake. The windows of another building near us were shaking. My reaction was a little slow. Went away from the windows toward a support beam.
- silentbicycle 16y agoWe felt it in Grand Rapids, MI, which is a ways from Quebec. A couple people in my office said, "What was that?!", but it took a moment to realize that those mysterious seconds of slow, deep swaying had been a distant earthquake.
- mtinkerhess 16y agoPeople in my building in Ann Arbor, MI felt it. I didn't but I'm on the ground floor.
- carbocation 16y agoI felt it up in New Hampshire. I was sitting at a coffee shop on the second floor of a building and the building oscillated. However, it was not much more jarring than when large supply vehicles roll by an airport terminal. Consciously, I decided it was not an earthquake --- but at the same time, it did cause me to look out the window and decide that I could make it to the ground floor, if necessary, without breaking a bone.
- perlpimp 16y agoFelt it in Toronto, on 10th floor, monitors we waggling all over the place. Strange feeling.
- alex_c 16y agoIt was a strange one here in Toronto - chair was swaying side to side, pretty strongly but slowly. Used to much sharper quakes.
- raganwald 16y agoGround floor in Toronto, the house shook. Although that may say more about the house than the quake...
- noarchy 16y agoI'm in Western Québec, and was off today (tomorrow is also a provincial holiday). I was out biking, and had no idea what was happening. I got home, and my cats were hiding, and books were strewn everywhere, having fallen from the shelves. The only actual damage was a broke bulb from a fallen lamp.
- jasonlotito 16y agoDidn't feel anything. Montreal.
- ryanc 16y agoFelt it on the 13th floor in Cambridge, MA
- r7000 16y agoWe were just outside the "secure zone" for the G20 when we felt the rumbling and shaking. Two large U.S. military/governmental helicopters (they said "United States of America" on the side) were taking off from just beside the CN Tower. Man those Americans have powerful helicopters we thought.
- alex_c 16y agohttp://www.zazzle.ca/2010_toronto_earthquake_tshirt-235007114594064856 http://www.zazzle.ca/2010_toronto_earthquake_tshirt-23500711... From earthquake to t-shirt in an hour and a half. What a world we live in. (not my shirt)
- jsz0 16y agoA while back someone started a post about which disasters we were most unprepared for. A major Earthquake on the east coast should be pretty far up that list.
- ascuttlefish 16y agoIn Barrie, Ontario, it was quite gentle where I was. I thought I was developing a tremour, but then I noticed the wee containers of jam and marmalade at the coffee shop were shaking too. It was pretty gentle, and only lasted half a minute.
- lliiffee 16y agoNothing in Rochester.
- cdmwebs 16y agoFelt it in Cincinnati, OH, too.